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✨ Photon Shape Discovered
According to a groundbreaking study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a new theory to define the precise shape of a single photon — the smallest unit of light. This discovery could transform our understanding of how light interacts with matter at the quantum level.
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Real-Life Human Hibernation
What once seemed like pure science fiction—humans hibernating—is now being explored by scientists as a real possibility. This groundbreaking research could have incredible applications, from helping with medical treatments to making long-term space travel possible.
Researchers at the University of Oxford are diving into one key question: how can our brains hold onto memories during long periods of deep sleep-like states (known as torpor)? Understanding this is a crucial step in making human hibernation a reality.
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✍️ AI Poetry Outperforms Humans
According to a recent study published in Nature Scientific Reports, readers not only struggle to differentiate between AI-generated poems and those written by renowned poets but often prefer the AI-created verses. This finding challenges long-held beliefs about human creativity and suggests that AI can evoke emotions and convey meanings in poetry just as effectively as humans.
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🟠 Dune: Space Game of Thrones
As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, HBO's new series "Dune: Prophecy" is drawing comparisons to "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" for its focus on political intrigue and power struggles in a fantastical setting. While set in the expansive sci-fi universe of Frank Herbert's "Dune," the show's emphasis on scheming noble houses and organizational control over civilization has led some critics to dub it "'Game of Thrones' in space."
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 46 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
TO READ
🎅 Coca-Cola has remade its iconic "Holidays Are Coming" commercial from 1995. The new ad is entirely generated by AI and will be broadcast globally on TV.
📱 AGI might appear in 2025, admitted CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman. In a new interview, he also talked about his first business and advised startup founders.
🐱 MeowTalk: AI cat-to-human translator. The app recognizes your pet's meows and builds a unique 'vocabulary' for your cat.
🕊 Elon Musk will head DOGE — the new Department of Government Efficiency in President Donald Trump's administration.
🤩 New 3D bioprinter developed by engineers at the University of Melbourne creates tissue 350 times faster than existing models.
💬 Using ChatGPT as a personal diary can help you navigate conflicts in your family and workplace, as well as process your inner feelings.
💡 10 revolutionary AI tools by "Time." The list includes the Nobel Prize-winning AI model and the Runway Gen-3 text-to-video.
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✏️ Master logo creation with FLUX. AI-powered text-to-image tool is great for creating memorable logos.
👠 Shazam for fashion. Send the AI assistant a link to a post with an outfit you like, and it will show you where to buy those items.
TO WATCH
🎬 The "Here" movie by Robert Zemeckis in which an AI rejuvenates and ages Tom Hanks. According to the director, making such a film five years ago was impossible.
📱 Top 5 discussions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, actor Ashton Kutcher, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla, and others discuss how AI is changing our lives.
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AI Grandma Ties Up Scammers
Daisy, an AI-powered "granny" developed by O2 in collaboration with scambaiter Jim Browning, is designed to combat phone scammers by engaging them in prolonged conversations, thereby preventing them from targeting real victims and gathering valuable data on fraudulent tactics.
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China's Solar Great Wall
China's "Solar Great Wall" is a massive project in Inner Mongolia that combines large-scale solar power generation with efforts to combat desertification. By 2030, it aims to produce 48 billion kilowatt-hours of clean energy annually for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. This initiative will help reduce carbon emissions, fight the spread of deserts, create jobs, and boost local economies through technological innovation.
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Altman Predicts AGI by 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has stirred the tech community with his prediction that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could be realized by 2025, a timeline that contrasts sharply with many experts who foresee AGI's arrival much later. Despite skepticism, Altman asserts that OpenAI is on track to achieve this ambitious goal, emphasizing ongoing advancements and substantial funding, while also suggesting that the initial societal impact of AGI might be minimal.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here’s the most exciting AI news from Week 45 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
MAIN NEWS
🖼 Flux image generator update. The new Ultra and Raw modes allow you to create photorealistic detailed images in high resolution.
🌳 The story of Flux. How did the German startup Black Forest Labs create a competitor to DALL-E and Midjourney?
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🎸 All our manuals on working with audio, voice, and music using generative AI. The best from 2024.
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🐶 AI-powered collar helps you talk to your dog. Texas-based startup Personifi AI has introduced a gadget for cat and dog owners: a "talking" pet collar called Shazam Band.
🧪 Scientists teleport smells using AI. A new technology from Osmo startup will allow sending scents via the Internet, like music or pictures.
🚕 EHang Holdings has received permission to conduct test flights of their air taxi in several Chinese cities. The company's vice president, Dong Wan, tested the first model, EH216.
👩⚕️ How doctors use AI. According to a BMJ Health and Care Informatics survey, about 20% of therapists in the UK use artificial intelligence tools in their daily work.
📱 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AGI is achievable with existing hardware, though many researchers believe it's still decades away.
TO WATCH
🎤 At TechCrunch Disrupt, actor and AI investor Ashton Kutcher explained why he invests in competitors and why we shouldn't fear the AI revolution.
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🐾 Cloned Ferret's Historic Birth
A cloned black-footed ferret named Antonia just had two healthy babies at the Smithsonian's Zoo — the first time ever in the US! This is huge news for saving endangered species.
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First Wooden Satellite Launched
As reported by Reuters and CNBC, the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat, was launched into space on November 5, 2024, as part of a groundbreaking experiment to test timber as a potential material for future space exploration and habitation.
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MIT's Robot Learning Breakthrough
MIT researchers have developed a novel training method for robots inspired by large language models, combining diverse data sources to enhance learning and adaptability across various tasks. As reported by TechCrunch, this approach aims to overcome the limitations of traditional imitation learning by utilizing a more comprehensive dataset, potentially revolutionizing the way robots acquire new skills.
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Starship In-Orbit Refueling Test
SpaceX is gearing up for a groundbreaking demonstration of in-space refueling technology, with plans to transfer propellant between two orbiting Starships as early as March 2025, according to NASA officials. This critical milestone will pave the way for future lunar missions and represents a significant step towards SpaceX's ambitious goal of enabling long-duration space travel.
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📱 OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Search
OpenAI unveiled an AI-powered web search within ChatGPT. It can display world news, stock quotes, weather updates, and sports scores in real time. This is possible through partnerships with The Associated Press, Financial Times, Le Monde, Time, and other global media.
OpenAI is now entering serious competition with major players like Microsoft — which integrates AI elements into Bing — the AI-driven search engine Perplexity, and, of course, the industry giant Google.
ℹ️ Try our web search bot based on Perplexity: @GPT4AgentsBot
🔬 Archon's Antibody Cage Breakthrough
Archon Biosciences, a biotech startup, has unveiled its new "antibody cages" technology after raising $20 million in funding. This innovation aims to speed up drug development and make treatments more effective.
AI-driven antibody design is changing how we create therapeutic antibodies. Using machine learning, researchers can quickly analyze large amounts of data to predict how antibodies will behave and design new ones for specific targets.
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📣 Hello everyone! Here's the most exciting AI news from Week 47 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
NEW RELEASES
🎵 Release of Suno V4: A new version of the best text-to-music AI model. The developers pumped up the sound and added a feature for remastering your old tracks.
💻 The updated GPT-4o model now handles text even better than o1. Available on @GPT4Telegrambot.
🎨 Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX.1 Tools — AI-powered tools for image editing.
🇫🇷 Le Chat, a ChatGPT alternative from France's Mistral, now includes image generation via FLUX 1.1 [pro] and web search functionality.
TO READ
✉️ OpenAI Email Archives. Some emails between OpenAI founders during the company's early days have been published — more insightful than any business book.
🛰 Astronomers are calling for a halt to all Starlink launches: Why scientists oppose Musk's project.
🎓 AI models get smarter by teaching other models. The Learning by Teaching method has been adopted for training LLMs.
📱 Chief AI scientist at Meta, Yann LeCun, explains why AI models won't soon rival humans.
😶🌫️ AI has been trained to identify sources of nitrogen dioxide leaks — a highly toxic poison.
🦋 Users are migrating from X to Bluesky, the new social network by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
TO WATCH
🟠 Dune: Prophecy — HBO's new series draws comparisons to "Game of Thrones" in space for its focus on political intrigue and power struggles in a fantastical setting.
🇻🇦 St. Peter's Basilica now has a 3D replica: one of the world's most iconic cathedrals can be visited virtually from home.
TO PLAY
🏍 The top 5 VR games of 2024: Batman's adventures, mech combats, and blood-chilling horror.
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The First Life on Earth: Meet LUCA
Scientists now believe that the very first ancestor of all life on Earth, known as the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), lived around 4.2 billion years ago. This tiny single-celled organism appeared just a few hundred million years after Earth's formation (surprisingly soon) and was more complex than previously thought. These new findings change how we understand the origins of life on our planet and open up exciting possibilities for finding life beyond Earth.
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🟠 Chinese Mars Rover Finds Signs of Ancient Ocean Shoreline
China's Mars rover, Zhurong, has made an exciting discovery: evidence that suggests an ancient ocean shoreline once existed on Mars. This finding comes from the planet's northern hemisphere. Reports from the Tianwen-1 mission indicate that about 3.5 billion years ago, there may have been a coastline on Mars. This discovery could change how we understand Mars's history and its potential to have once supported life.
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Laser Light Casts Shadow
Scientists have made a surprising discovery that challenges our usual understanding of light: a laser beam can cast a visible shadow under specific conditions, much like a solid object would. As reported by Futurism, scientists using a ruby crystal and precisely configured lasers demonstrated that light can behave like an opaque object that blocks other light. This breakthrough opens up exciting possibilities for controlling and manipulating light in entirely new ways.
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🎅 Coca-Cola has updated its iconic "Holidays Are Coming" commercial from 1995. The new ad is entirely generated by AI and will be broadcast globally on TV.
The commercial from Secret Level studio was revealed by its founder, Jason Zada. According to him, the Secret Level team worked on the commercial for about a month, and the main tool for them was the text-to-video Kling 1.5 AI model.
The commercial was produced by Secret Level studio and revealed by its founder, Jason Zada. He mentioned that the Secret Level team spent about a month working on the ad, primarily using the text-to-video Kling 1.5 AI model.
"Live shooting would be several million dollars and a lot of time in the cold. We were able to do all of that from the comfort of everyone's home; we have global artists worldwide," Zada said.
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🧬 DeepMind Releases AlphaFold Code
Google DeepMind has released the source code for AlphaFold 3, a groundbreaking advancement in protein structure prediction technology that enhances accuracy and extends its capabilities to model complex molecular interactions.
By sharing the code, DeepMind fosters transparency and collaboration in the scientific community, enabling researchers worldwide to leverage this tool.
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🚕 Anyone in Los Angeles Can Now Order a Robotaxi
Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Alphabet, has expanded its robotaxi service in Los Angeles. The driverless ride-hailing service is now available to the public across an 80-square-mile area, ending a waitlist of 300,000 people. Anyone with the Waymo One app can now request a fully autonomous ride 24/7.
Waymo's current fleet provides over 100,000 rides each week. The service has garnered an impressive average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars, with a remarkable 98% customer satisfaction rate.
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🎸 The Beatles Make AI History with Grammy Nominations
The Beatles have made a groundbreaking return to the Grammy stage with their AI-enhanced song "Now and Then," earning nominations for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance nearly 50 years after their breakup. This historic achievement, reported by Business Today and Moneycontrol, highlights the band's innovative use of AI technology to isolate John Lennon's vocals from a decades-old demo tape.
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🧬 South Africa Allows Human Genome Editing
South Africa has become the first country to allow scientists to modify human genes that can be passed down to future generations. This means doctors could potentially change an unborn baby's genes to prevent diseases or other conditions. While this is a major scientific breakthrough, many worry about safety risks and ethical concerns. Most other countries currently ban this type of gene editing in humans. The decision has started worldwide discussions about whether changing human genes that affect future generations should be allowed.
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🌲 Black Forest Labs has released Ultra and Raw modes for its text-to-image AI model Flux 1.1 [pro].
Ultra mode allows image generation at 4x higher resolution than the standard Flux 1.1 [pro] while maintaining prompt adherence and an impressive generation time of only 10 seconds per sample.
The Raw option is designed to make photorealistic images. The developers ensure that Raw mode significantly increases diversity in portraits and enhances the realism of nature images.
🔴 Flux 1.1 [ultra] is already available on @GPT4Telegrambot. You can use it in the Midjourney / Flux bundle.
Hybrid Plant-Animal Cells
According to New Atlas, Japanese researchers have developed "planimal cells" by integrating chloroplasts from algae into hamster cells, a pioneering advancement in cellular biology that could revolutionize tissue engineering, sustainable biotechnology, and novel applications by enabling solar-powered animal cells with enhanced photosynthetic capabilities.
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AGI With Current Hardware
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a bold claim during a recent Reddit AMA, stating that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is "achievable with current hardware," sparking debate among AI experts and enthusiasts about the timeline and feasibility of reaching this milestone. While Altman's optimistic projection aligns with some industry leaders' views, it contrasts sharply with more conservative estimates from other researchers who believe AGI may still be decades away.
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📣 Hello, everyone! Here’s the most exciting AI news from Week 44 of 2024 in our Sunday digest.
MAIN NEWS
📱 OpenAI has launched AI-powered search. ChatGPT can now answer real-time questions about world news, stock quotes, sports scores, and weather.
BOT UPDATE
🎬 Kling on @GPT4Telegrambot. Generate unique videos on Telegram based on your text prompt, an image, or two frames.
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🥇 Recraft V3 — a new model that has risen to first place in the Text to Image Arena, surpassing Flux and Midjourney.
🔈 ElevenLabs has introduced Voice Design — a feature that allows users to create unique AI voices based on textual descriptions.
TO READ
🔘 Neuralink is developing an implant to restore vision, even for people without eyes or optic nerves.
😎 "Sense" smart glasses use AI to recognize emotions, count calories, and assess health and lifestyle.
📱 Meta has released NotebookLlama, an open-source alternative to Google's NotebookLM. It turns text documents into AI-generated podcasts.
🎹 Roli Airwave is an AI device that teaches piano from scratch or helps musicians improve their skills.
TO WATCH
🤖 "Where the Robots Grow": AiMation Studios released the first feature-length animated film made entirely with AI tools.
📱 A new selection of TED talks exploring how artists view AI’s role in art.
Enjoy your Sunday 👍
🎬 Create Unique Videos on @GPT4Telegrambot
Hi, everyone! We're excited to announce that you can now generate videos using the advanced Kling AI model within our bot:
➡️ Based on Text Prompts: Create videos from your descriptions.
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🖼️ New iMac and Apple Intelligence
Apple has unveiled the M4-powered iMac, boasting up to 6x faster performance compared to its Intel-based predecessors, alongside Apple Intelligence, an AI-driven suite enhancing productivity and creativity across devices with features like advanced writing tools and image enhancements, as reported by TechCrunch.
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