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Mass Exodus from xAI as Safety Concerns Mount Over Grok's 'Unhinged' Direction
At least 11 engineers and two co-founders are departing xAI following SpaceX's acquisition announcement, with former employees citing the company's disregard for AI safety protocols. Sources report that Elon Musk is acti...
OpenAI's Sora Video Generation App Achieves Massive Launch Success, Rivaling ChatGPT Adoption
OpenAI's video-generating app Sora recorded approximately 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week in the U.S. and Canada, nearly matching ChatGPT's first-week performance of 606,000 U.S. downloads. Despite being invite-o...
OpenAI Launches Sora Social App with Controversial Deepfake 'Cameo' Feature
OpenAI has released Sora, a TikTok-like social media app with advanced video generation capabilities that allow users to create realistic deepfakes through a "cameo" feature using biometric data. The app is already fille...
OpenAI Launches Sora 2 Video Generator with TikTok-Style Social Platform
OpenAI released Sora 2, an advanced audio and video generation model with improved physics simulation, alongside a new social app called Sora. The platform features a "cameos" function allowing users to insert their own...
xAI Co-founder Igor Babuschkin Leaves to Start AI Safety-Focused VC Firm
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder and engineering lead at Elon Musk's xAI, announced his departure to launch Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety research. His exit follows several scandals involving xAI's Grok...
Industry Leaders Discuss AI Safety Challenges as Technology Becomes More Accessible
ElevenLabs' Head of AI Safety and Databricks co-founder participated in a discussion about AI safety and ethics challenges. The conversation covered issues like deepfakes, responsible AI deployment, and the difficulty of...
AI Safety Leaders to Address Ethical Crisis and Control Challenges at TechCrunch Sessions
TechCrunch Sessions: AI will feature discussions between Artemis Seaford (Head of AI Safety at ElevenLabs) and Ion Stoica (co-founder of Databricks) about the urgent ethical challenges posed by increasingly powerful and...
ByteDance's OmniHuman-1 Creates Ultra-Realistic Deepfake Videos From Single Images
ByteDance researchers have unveiled OmniHuman-1, a new AI system capable of generating remarkably convincing deepfake videos from just a single reference image and audio input. The system, trained on 19,000 hours of vide...