AI Daily News: Friday October 18, 2024 - X Removes Opt-Out Option for AI Training & OpenAI's Strained Relationship with Microsoft

Is the AI apocalypse upon us? This week's news is HUGE. X (formerly Twitter) eliminates user control over AI data, sparking outrage. A ChatGPT Windows app launches, but is it too little, too late? Meanwhile, Eddie Van Halen’s brother uses AI to bring his late brother’s music back to life! Plus, AI-powered game companions, a political candidate's AI clone debates rivals, AI scams and Google's shake-up. Is this progress, or peril? Watch now to form your own conclusions! Links: https://cybernews.com/ai-news/updated-x-terms/https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1846957067204166113https://openai.com/chatgpt/download/https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/the-surprising-way-openai-could-get-out-of-its-pact-with-microsoft/https://archive.is/Bas23https://archive.is/1mSfMhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/10/17/24268007/modders-ai-companions-stardew-valley-skyrimhttps://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-10-17/virginia-congressional-candidates-debate-incumbents-ai-with-a-few-glitcheshttps://nypost.com/2024/10/18/us-news/scammers-swindle-elderly-california-man-out-of-25k-by-using-ai-voice-technology-to-claim-his-son-was-in-horrible-accident-needed-money-for-bail-absolutely-his-voice/https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-17/google-shifts-gemini-app-team-to-deepmindhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/googles-notebooklm-now-lets-you-guide-ai-generated-audio-conversations-launches-business-pilot/https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-update-october-2024/https://developers.googleblog.com/en/compare-mode-in-google-ai-studio/https://archive.is/Dpeiahttps://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-17/meta-partners-with-hollywoods-blumhouse-to-test-out-its-ai-movie-generation-modelhttps://ai.meta.com/blog/movie-gen-video-sound-generation-blumhouse/https://archive.ph/N5CFGhttps://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-17/sam-altmans-rebranded-worldcoin-ramps-up-iris-scanning-crypto-projecthttps://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-17/tsmc-says-it-is-a-law-abiding-company-after-report-of-us-probehttps://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-helps-treasury-recover-billions-in-fraudhttps://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-10-17/bain-co-openai-expand-partnership-to-sell-ai-tools-to-clientshttps://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-robots-hacked-to-cause-real-world-harmhttps://robopair.org/files/research/robopair.pdfhttps://techcrunch.com/2024/10/17/with-11-9-million-in-funding-dottxt-tells-ai-models-how-to-answer/https://x.com/krea_ai/status/1846855436458512685https://www.krea.ai/homehttps://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-internal-knowledge-search-and-spaceshttps://dash.dropbox.com/meet-dash-for-businesshttps://motherduck.com/blog/sql-llm-prompt-function-gpt-models/https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/ai-medical-imagery-model-offers-fast-cost-efficient-expert-analysis/https://elevenlabs.io/blog/lenovo-launches-tts-eye-tracking-device-for-als-accessibilityhttps://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+als&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1123US1123&oq=what+is+als&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDggAEEUYJxg7GIAEGIoFMg4IABBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIGCAYQRRg8MgYIBxBFGDzSAQgxNTY3ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/9182113-interactive-avatar-101-your-ultimate-guidehttps://qz.com/noom-weight-loss-drugs-muscle-loss-1851674447https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/17/ai-mediation-tool-may-help-reduce-culture-war-rifts-say-researchershttps://www.answer.ai/posts/2024-10-15-how-to-synthesize-data.htmlhttps://www.renaissancecapital.com/IPO-Center/News/107305/China-based-robotaxi-developer-Pony-AI-files-for-an-estimated-$300-million-