5th September - AI News Daily - Apple × Google: How Gemini Will Transform Siri & The Future of AI Assistants

Send us a textAI Models & Apps Todayhttps://airtable.com/appdzw1t70uu4RppH/shrhbG9ahon9Ot5a1  Open-Source & Research Highlights: FineVision released a massive 17M+ image dataset boosting VLM benchmarks. DeepMind's Deep Loop Shaping reduced LIGO detector noise significantly. UC Berkeley's XQuant slashed LLM memory requirements, while UnslothAI halved VRAM usage. New benchmarks include Husky Hold'em for pokerbots. Enterprise & Platforms: OpenAI launched a jobs platform with certification for AI talent, released ChatGPT Projects to all users with enhanced features, and acquired Statsig for $1.1B. Anthropic secured $13B funding, reaching a $183B valuation. Baseten partnered with Google Cloud/Nvidia, Boeing reported productivity gains with LlamaIndex, and Atlassian acquired Vibes for $610M. New Tools: Groq's Compound became available for building large agentic systems. Developers gained Flash-Attention 3 on Hugging Face, visualization tools, and Spark+Xet integration. New frameworks include Ada (AI analyst), Atla (agent remediation), CTF-Dojo (agent training), and LeRobotHF (robot OS). Model Advancements: Google's 308M EmbeddingGemma delivers state-of-the-art multilingual embeddings. MiniCPM-V 4.5 (8B) shows leading multimodal results, while Liquid AI Japan's 350M model rivals GPT-4o for English-Japanese translation. Other notable releases include Jina's code embeddings, VibeVoice TTS, and Apertus with 1,800+ language support. Platform Updates: VS Code added support for OpenAI-compatible local endpoints. LocallyAI shipped on-device Voice Mode with Apple's MLX. Higgsfield offered free Kling 1080p video generation. Education & Partnerships: Google is providing Gemini for Education to U.S. high schools with a $1B investment. Hugging Face partnered with ESCP giving platform access to 11,000 students. Google also introduced "Guided Learning" in Gemini. Apple & Google: Apple reportedly partnering with Google to infuse Siri with Gemini and launch "World Knowledge Answers," with rollout expected 2025-2026. Google expanded Gemini to TCL TVs and Google Home devices. Security & Policy: Researchers warned of "CopyPasta License" attacks on AI coding assistants. Hexstrike-AI framework reportedly accelerated zero-day exploitation. Australia advanced measures against abusive deepfakes, while FTC examines AI's impact on children. Workplace Impact: Coinbase mandated AI tools with reports of firings for non-compliance. Salesforce eliminated 4,000 support roles due to AI efficiencies. Research Applications: University of Minnesota demonstrated AI-guided drones modeling wildfire smoke to aid forecasting and disaster response. Support the show🌍 INAI • The Open AI Hub The Intelligence Atlas → the world’s most comprehensive, open hub of AI knowledge. 2 Million+ tools, models, agents, tutorials & daily news—free for all, updated every day. https://github.com/inai-sandy/inAI-wiki

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