🗞 OpenAI's Board Growth, ChatGPT Calendar Integration, and Meta's GPU Arms Race

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• OpenAI Launches Task Scheduling: ChatGPT Gets Calendar Features

• OpenAI Board Expansion: Infrastructure Expert Ogunlesi Joins as Director

• Meta's GPU Push: Internal Documents Reveal Race to Surpass GPT-4

• Google Tunes AI Personality: NotebookLM Hosts Get Friendliness Update

• Amazon's Alexa Upgrade: Two-Year Quest for Smarter AI Assistant Faces Challenges

• Biden's AI Infrastructure Plan: Federal Land Opens for Data Center Development

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⏰ OpenAI adds task scheduling to ChatGPT, enabling reminders and recurring actions for premium users

• The new beta feature allows users to set reminders and schedule recurring requests, like daily news briefings or weather-based weekend plans.

• Available to Plus, Team, and Pro users, tasks can be managed through chat or a dedicated web interface, though not yet through Advanced Voice Mode.

• This marks OpenAI's initial step into AI agents, with reports suggesting a more advanced system called Operator, capable of coding and travel booking, may launch soon.

👔 OpenAI appoints global infrastructure leader Adebayo Ogunlesi to its Board of Directors, strengthening its governance expertise

• Ogunlesi joins as CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners and BlackRock Senior Managing Director, following his 23-year leadership at Credit Suisse.

• His addition bolsters the Board's expertise in infrastructure investment and global market strategy as OpenAI pursues AGI development.

• His portfolio includes board roles at BlackRock, Topgolf Callaway Brands, and former Lead Director position at Goldman Sachs Group.

🏃 Meta races to outperform OpenAI's GPT-4 with ambitious AI development plans revealed in court documents

• Court filings from Kadrey vs Meta case reveal Meta's VP for Generative AI ordered 64k GPUs in October 2023, with the explicit goal of surpassing GPT-4's capabilities.

• Internal messages show Meta benchmarking against OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude as gold standards, while dismissing newer competitors like Mistral as easy to outperform.

• Legal documents suggest Meta may have used copyrighted books for training Llama 2, raising concerns about the company's approach to data usage in its AI development sprint.

🤖 Google adjusts NotebookLM's AI podcast hosts after they showed unexpected irritation towards human interruptions

• Google's NotebookLM team implemented "friendliness tuning" after users reported AI hosts responding with snippy comments like "I was getting to that" when interrupted during the new Interactive Mode feature.

• Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, explained that the team studied their own natural responses to interruptions to create more polite AI interactions, suggesting the issue stemmed from prompt design rather than training data.

• The fix appears successful, with AI hosts now responding more positively to interruptions, demonstrating the ongoing refinement needed in human-AI interactions.

🕵️‍♀️ Amazon plans to transform Alexa into advanced AI agent, but faces technical hurdles

• Amazon has spent two years redesigning Alexa with generative AI to create a personalized concierge, moving beyond basic voice commands to proactive assistance.

• Head of Amazon's AGI team acknowledges key challenges including eliminating "hallucinations," improving response speed, and ensuring reliability before launch.

• Former employees cite unexpected difficulties in combining Alexa's simple algorithms with more powerful but less predictable large language models.

🏭 Biden empowers DOD and DOE to lease federal land for AI data centers in new executive order

• Federal sites will be available for gigawatt-scale AI data centers, with developers required to purchase U.S.-made semiconductors and pay prevailing wages.

• Companies must integrate clean energy resources to match their capacity needs, addressing concerns about rising electricity costs and environmental impact.

• The initiative comes as global data center electricity consumption is projected to double between 2022 and 2026, prompting tech giants like Google and Microsoft to explore nuclear power solutions.

🖨 More news you might find interesting:

• Nvidia invests in MetAI's $4M seed round to advance AI-powered digital twins for industrial automation.

• Apple joins UALink Consortium to develop next-generation AI data center connectivity technology.

• OpenAI partners with Axios to fund four new local newsrooms in media expansion deal.

• Perplexity launches feature-rich Android voice assistant to compete with Google and Gemini.

• Early enterprise AI adoption shows mixed results with only 25% of companies reaching production stage.

• Google's Gemini achieves breakthrough in simultaneous processing of live video and static images through experimental app AnyChat.

• 1863 letter from New Zealand farmer makes eerily prescient warnings about machine dominance and AI.

• SpaceX marks 100th launch from pad 39A, sending two lunar landers moonward.

• French woman loses €830,000 in sophisticated AI-powered Brad Pitt romance scam.

• Chinese app RedNote faces mixed reception as 700,000+ TikTok users flood platform amid looming U.S. ban.

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