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Today’s Headlines:

• Sports Illustrated Publisher Fires CEO After AI Scandal - "Effective immediately, Ross Levinsohn will be leaving the company and his role as CEO," wrote Grady Tripp, the company's senior vice president of people; "This follows the recent departure of three senior executives last week."

• Mistral announces new open-source model - Mixtral 8x7B, a high-quality sparse mixture of experts model (SMoE) with open weights. Licensed under Apache 2.0. Mixtral outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference. It matches or outperforms GPT3.5 on most standard benchmarks.

• The FTC is reportedly looking into Microsoft’s $13 billion OpenAI investment - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into Microsoft’s investment in the Sam Altman-led company and whether it violates US antitrust laws.

• San Francisco startup MaintainX raises $50 million to bring A.I. to industrial operations - The funding will help MaintainX expand its research and development, enhance its artificial intelligence capabilities, and grow its customer base.

• Laredo wants to use gen AI to automate dev work - Leveraging an AI model trained on data from around a hundred million software projects, Laredo writes code based on high-level natural language commands — writing, editing and deleting code to accomplish dev tasks while documenting progress.

• Meet Ashley, the world's first AI-powered political campaign caller - Ashley is not your typical robocaller; none of her responses are canned or pre-recorded. She is the first political phone banker powered by generative AI technology. She is capable of having an infinite number of customized one-on-one conversations at the same time.

• Wendy’s is giving franchisees the option to test its drive-thru AI chatbot - Wendy’s began testing an AI-powered chatbot at company-owned locations earlier this year and is giving franchisees the option to test the system in 2024 after realizing faster service and high accuracy.

• Pentagon alarmed by Chinese rush for 'intelligentized' warfare, but experts warn about over-reliance on AI - China could overtake the US in AI capabilities by 2025 and lead globally by 2030.

• Robo dogs and AI inspectors might be coming to the border - IU.S. Customs and Border Protection announced last week it had awarded Virginia-based Pangiam a contract to build an artificial intelligence tool to scan vehicles and cargo crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

• Researchers compare AI policies and guidelines at 52 news organizations around the world - Artificial intelligence is informing and assisting journalists in their work, but how are newsrooms managing its use? Research on AI guidelines and policies from 52 media organizations from around the world offers some answers.

• Meta debuts demo for AI voice, sound effects - Audiobox is Meta's new foundation research model for audio generation. it can generate voices and sound effects using a combination of voice inputs and natural language text prompts - making it easy to create custom audio for a wide range of use cases.

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