If you live outside the EU and UK, everything you have ever written and posted to LinkedIn has now been used by LinkedIn and their affiliate partners to train new AI models, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent this. Last week LinkedIn quietly announced that they have trained new AI models on the data of all their users, and that you through a complex two-step out-out process might prevent LinkedIn and their affiliates to use any new data or content going forward to train their models, but you cannot “affect any training that has already taken…

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Thanks to Google Audio Overviews, you can now listen to this weekly newsletter as a podcast! If you have not yet experienced Audio Overviews, prepare to have your mind blown! 🤯 In fact, if you have limited time, skip reading this altogether and spend just 1 minute listening to the beginning of this podcast. It’s totally amazing! Tech Insights Weekly | Podcast on Spotify After many weeks waiting for OpenAI’s next model (code named ‘Strawberry’) to be announced, it was finally released as OpenAI ‘o1’ last week. o1 is the first in a new series of models that generate an…

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On December 11, 2020, Pfizer announced their first vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine had been developed in less than a year, setting a new standard for vaccine development where vaccines under “normal” circumstances can take up to 10-15 years to make. Last week Google DeepMind announced AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that can design custom proteins to bind with specific molecular targets, greatly improving the speed for new drug discovery and cancer research. Independent tests showed some AlphaProteo designs could stop SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) from infecting cells and slash years of lab work down to days or weeks. This is an…

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It has finally happened! We are now at the point where a large language model can generate code that is of such high quality that it is no longer beneficial to write the code yourself, no matter how good your skills are. I have written several apps in Node and Python the past week with Cursor and Claude and it’s truly mind boggling how fast you can generate complete applications if you know what you are doing. If you are doing any kind of programming today you owe it to yourself to check out the videos below and download Cursor…

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Wow, what a crazy AI week it has been! Among the top news are OpenAI who just announced free (!) fine-tuning of GPT-4o until September 23, Ideogram 2.0 image generator with amazing text rendering, Meshy-4 the amazing image-to-3D model generator, and Lumalabs Dream Machine 1.5. On top of that we have an AI powered mosquito hunter with built-in laser, roomier robottaxis from Waymo and improved music recommendations using transformers. THIS WEEK’S NEWS: Ideogram Launches version 2.0 with State-of-the-art Text Rendering https://twitter.com/ideogram_ai/status/1826277550798278804 The News: My take: The cartoon style images generated by Ideogram 2.0 look absolutely stunning, and I can see…

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Four years ago on August 13, 2020, Epic Games released a hotfix for their popular game Fortnite on Android and iOS. The “hotfix” enabled a new purchasing options for VBUCKS (the in-game currency) that bypassed Google Play and App Store, meaning Epic Games would pay zero revenue share to Apple and Google. Both Apple and Google banned Fortnite as a result, and the game has been unavailable on iOS devices since then. Last week Epic Games, thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA), launched their Epic Games store on iOS in EU, which included not only Fortnite but also Fall…

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Would you trust a robot to fix your dental issues? Maybe I am the minority, but I would definitely try it, especially if it could significantly reduce the time you need to sit still in that chair while someone is drilling in your mouth. Dental-robots are coming, and you can read more about it below. Also, Black Forest Labs Flux that I wrote about last week has been released, and wow the images it creates really are as good as they promised. You can see two generated photos below and try it out online for free. Finally, we now have…

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In a report released by the White House on July 30, it was declared that open source AI models will not be subject for future regulations. This is probably one of many reasons companies like Apple, Google and Meta have chosen to release models, datasets and weights as open source – as long as key components are made publicly available there will be no restrictions taken. Also – if you have not yet seen Metas Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), just go ahead and try it now. It’s one of the most amazing things you will try this year!…

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What an AI week it has been! OpenAI announced SearchGPT, Meta released Llama 3.1 and Mistral launched Large 2! Open Source has definitely caught up with closed source, and it is interesting to see how all current models seem to perform almost identical, open source as well as closed source. Maybe it’s because they all use the same datasets, use similar hardware configurations, and use the same algorithms for training. On July 25 Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI wrote on X: “AI progress will be immense from here”. This makes it very interesting to see what it is that will…

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If you are living in the EU and have looked forward to Meta’s upcoming multimodal LLM, they just released news that it will not be available for European companies and researchers due to “the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment”. In contrast to this, The Washington Post has obtained a document by Trump allies, with plans to “immediately review and eliminate ‘burdensome regulations’ on AI development” in the US. The gap between Europe and the US is growing, and depending on how the election turns out later this year it could increase exponentially next year. This week’s news: Meta…

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