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Today’s Headlines:

• Discord is shutting down its AI chatbot Clyde - Discord users won’t be able to chat to Clyde from December 1st onwards.

• OpenAI explores how to get ChatGPT into classrooms - “Most teachers are trying to figure out ways to incorporate (ChatGPT) into the curriculum and into the way they teach,” OpenAI's COO Brad Lightcap said at the INSEAD Americas Conference last week. “We at OpenAI are trying to help them think through the problem and we probably next year will establish a team with the sole intent of doing that.”

• Apple to finally bring RCS to iPhones - Apple plans to add support for the RCS standard on iOS next year, the iPhone-maker said Thursday in a major reversal that would resolve the widespread issue of compatibility in text messaging between iPhones and Android smartphones, but stopped short of eliminating what is known colloquially as the “green bubble” dread.

• Menlo Ventures closes on $1.35B in new capital, targets investments in AI startups - “Not every investment has to be an AI investment, but we believe that’s where the most exciting innovations will spark,” Menlo Ventures Partner Venky Ganesan said.

• Meta's new AI tool, Emu, lets you create videos - Our work in this exciting field is ongoing, and today, we’re announcing new research into controlled image editing based solely on text instructions and a method for text-to-video generation based on diffusion models.

• Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT - Microsoft has settled on Copilot as its main brand for its AI chatbot, after months of trying to push Bing Chat.

• Microsoft’s Project Management Revolution: Unveiling AI-Powered Planner for Streamlined Work Excellence in 2024 - Microsoft is combining To Do, Planner, and Project for the web into a unified experience called Planner. The new Microsoft Planner will feature AI-enabled capabilities, including Copilot integration for intuitive plan creation.

• Microsoft releases AI tool for photorealistic copying of faces and voices - In response to criticism that Azure AI Speech was simply a ‘deepfakes creator’, Microsoft said it had implemented safeguards.

• AI chief quits over 'exploitative' copyright row - A senior executive at the tech firm Stability AI has resigned over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products.

• Stanford Health uses AI to reduce clinical deterioration events - Its machine learning model updates predictions on hospitalized patients every 15 minutes and acts as an objective assessor of risk, helping facilitate alignment and coordination in patient care as an AI-integrated system.

• ChatGPT Plus subscriptions are being listed on eBay after OpenAI blocked signups - Some users have responded by listing ChatGPT Plus account details on eBay.

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