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Harvard students jailbreak Meta glasses to scan your face and find your address.

Also, MIT spinoff creates AI models WITHOUT using transformer technology.

Plus, California Governor Newsom vetoes the AI safety bill.

Oh yeah, and Elon hosts AI recruiting event at OpenAI’s old headquarters.

So, grab your beverage of choice.

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• 📰 AI NEWS RECAP

• 🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

• 🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

• ⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

• 🎓 AI COURSES OF THE WEEK

• 📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

• 🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

📰 AI NEWS RECAP

Harvard Students Jailbreak Meta Glasses To Scan Your Face And Find Your Address😮

Two tech-savvy students have turned Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses into a privacy nightmare by hacking them to identify and stalk strangers in public.

🕵️‍♂️ Meet I-XRAY: The Doxxing Machine

Harvard students AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio developed I-XRAY, a tech stack that:

☑️ Jailbreaks glasses to stream video to a computer.

☑️ Uses AI to detect faces and scour the web for matches.

☑️ Scrapes personal info like names, addresses, and relatives.

The result?

A tool that can instantly identify and doxx anyone just by looking at them.

😱 Strangers Stalked Without Consent

In a shocking demo, the students used I-XRAY to identify dozens of people, including classmates, without their knowledge.

Armed with names, addresses, and personal details, they approached subjects and gained their trust by mentioning info they had no way of knowing.

The potential for abuse by stalkers, scammers, and predators is concerning.

🚫 Privacy No Match for Hackers

Meta touts privacy features like a recording LED to alert people when the glasses are capturing footage.

But the I-XRAY project proves that skilled hackers can easily bypass these safeguards and weaponize the tech for nefarious purposes.

It raises serious questions about the security of Meta's smart glasses and the risks they pose in the wrong hands.

🔮 Doxxing Dystopia

The I-XRAY project is a wake-up call about the looming threats to privacy and safety in an era of ubiquitous smart glasses.

If two college students can hack together a doxxing machine, imagine what criminals or rogue states could do with this tech.

We need stronger safeguards, stricter regulations, and a societal reckoning about the dangers of always-on, face-scanning wearables.

My Take🤔

The I-XRAY project is a chilling demonstration of the dark side of smart glasses technology.

It shows how easily Meta's privacy measures can be defeated by determined hackers, leaving the public vulnerable to doxxing and stalking on a terrifying scale.

While Meta may tout the benefits of its smart glasses, the I-XRAY hack exposes the grave risks they pose to our privacy and safety.

It's clear that we need much stronger security safeguards and regulations to prevent this kind of abuse.

But, we need to ask ourselves if the benefits of face-scanning smart glasses are worth the dystopian risks they enable.

The I-XRAY project is a stark warning about the dangers of rushing headlong into a future of ubiquitous facial recognition without proper safeguards.

We ignore it at our peril.

Does privacy exist in the Intelligence Age?

What ways can you protect your privacy from AI?

OpenAI unveils 4 game-changing API features for developers. Model distillation, prompt caching, vision fine-tuning, and Realtime API promise enhanced customization and cost-efficiency for AI-powered applications.

OpenAI introduces Canvas, revolutionizing ChatGPT collaboration. The new interface enables side-by-side writing and coding projects, offering intuitive shortcuts and inline feedback for a more productive AI-assisted workflow.

MIT spinoff Liquid AI achieves breakthrough with non-transformer models. Their approach matches transformer performance using 1000x less compute, potentially solving AI's exponential growth problem and democratizing access to powerful models.

Elon Musk's xAI hosts cheeky recruitment party at OpenAI's old HQ. The event, coinciding with OpenAI's DevDay, aims to poach top AI talent, highlighting the fierce competition and shared history in the AI industry.

OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma joins rival Anthropic. Kingma's move strengthens Anthropic's talent pool, following recent high-profile hires from OpenAI and signaling intensifying competition in AI development.

NVIDIA unveils open-source NVLM 1.0 AI model family to rival GPT-4. The powerful language models, trained on 1.4 trillion tokens, offer impressive performance across tasks and languages while promoting transparency in AI development.

Microsoft unveils AI companion vision with enhanced Copilot features. New capabilities include Copilot Voice, Daily summaries, and AI-powered Vision and Think Deeper modes, aiming to create a more intuitive and personalized AI experience.

Mileseey Golf launches GenePro S1, world's first AI-powered golf rangefinder. The device uses AI to adapt to weather conditions, offering features like SmartSlope technology and PinPoint Green mode for unprecedented accuracy in distance measurements and course management.

Rabbit R1 AI companion finally gets its promised LAM feature. The $199 device now allows users to train it to navigate websites and perform tasks, though the process is still in "playground" testing phase with some limitations.

OpenAI confirms AI agents capable of working without human input by 2025. CEO Sam Altman demonstrated an early example at Dev Day, showcasing an AI assistant independently ordering strawberries, marking a significant step towards Artificial General Intelligence.

Google introduces ads in AI Overviews and launches AI-organized search pages. The company aims to monetize its AI-generated summaries while expanding AI's role in search results, potentially impacting publisher traffic and revenue.

California Governor Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047. The bill, which aimed to regulate AI-generated replicas in entertainment, was rejected due to concerns about its potential impact on innovation and open-source AI development.

🤿 AI DEEP DIVE

Harvard students jailbreak Meta glasses to scan your face and find your address.

OpenAI’s Canvas feature in ChatGPT transforms coding and writing collaboration.

It allows for inline suggestions, editing, and real-time improvements on projects.

Features include adjusting text length, changing reading levels, and adding emojis.

For coders, it simplifies debugging with comments, logs, and the ability to port code into multiple languages.

With its Google Docs-like experience, Canvas streamlines your workflow, making it an ideal tool for boosting efficiency and productivity.

🛠️ AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

Inbox Zero: An AI-powered email assistant designed to streamline your inbox by automating tasks like unsubscribing from newsletters, blocking cold emails, and organizing your messages.

With features like bulk unsubscribing, email analytics, and customizable automation, it helps users save time and keep their inbox clean and focused on important emails.

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⚙️ GPT OF THE WEEK

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🎓 AI COURSES OF THE WEEK

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📝 AI PROMPT OF THE WEEK

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🎨 AI IMAGE OF THE WEEK

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