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In an age when more and more young children are hooked on digital devices, YouTube is bombarding them with AI slop. After investigating over 1,000 YouTube shorts recommended to young children by the video platform, The New York Times found that the algorithm is heavily pushing AI-generated content that explicitly targets “toddlers” and “preschoolers.”

On top of being nonsensical, the videos are often presented under the guise of being educational. Two common themes are teaching kids about the alphabet and animals. One video highlighted by the NYT shows a gooey liquid being squeezed into a glass of water, before turning into different animals representing each letter of the alphabet — only the animals are bizarre chimeras with mermaid tails. And in another alphabet short, a quail transforms into an aerial drone, and a rhino into a dump truck that bears the megafauna’s head. Read more

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Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's robotics hardware lead, has resigned from the company. Her departure is the first senior-level exit directly linked to OpenAI's controversial Pentagon deal, with Kalinowski publicly expressing concerns over surveillance and lethal autonomous weapon systems.

Sources: Superhuman – Zain Kahn, The Rundown AI

Figure has demonstrated its humanoid robot's ability to autonomously clean a cluttered living room. This showcases substantial advancements in robotic perception, manipulation, and autonomous navigation within complex, real-world environments, indicating progress in general-purpose robotics.

Sources: AI Valley

The U.S. Department of Commerce has drafted new rules proposing government approval for all AI chip shipments by companies like Nvidia and AMD worldwide. These regulations would impose varying levels of review and require security assurances or commitments to invest in U.S. AI data centers for larger foreign purchases.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt

Eon Systems has achieved a breakthrough by successfully uploading and simulating the entire brain of a fruit fly, neuron by neuron. The digital recreation resulted in a virtual body that mimics the movement and behavior of a real fruit fly with 91% accuracy, marking a significant milestone in digital biology and AI.

Sources: Superintelligence, AI Valley

A new ChatGPT for Excel tool is available, embedding an AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel's sidebar. Users can describe desired outputs in plain English, allowing the AI to build workbooks with formulas and formatting, analyze multi-tab data, and assist in debugging without requiring users to switch applications.

Sources: "ben's bites", AI Agents

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