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Leo Rodman
October 28, 2024

I think the most interesting news this week is Anthropic’s ability for AI to control mouse cursor movement. This is a feature traditionally limited to RPA, robotic process automation. It is buggy and not very good right now, but in 6 months… This is the future of autonomous agents!

FYI: To use ChatGPT in iOS, you need a separate ChatGPT subscription. Bad news for people who get their ChatGPT from aggregators like Perplexity, ChatLLM and You.com, like myself!

Anthropic publicly releases AI tool that can take over the user’s mouse cursor

Anthropic is one of the first to go beyond just screen vision.

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/anthropic-publicly-releases-ai-tool-that-can-take-over-the-users-mouse-cursor

Humans are already repeating words learned from ChatGPT, such as ‘delve’ and ‘meticulous’

An analysis of 300,000 conferences reveals that the influence of generative artificial intelligence goes beyond the written word and is now impacting what we say

english.elpais.com/technology/2024-10-24/humans-are-already-repeating-words-learned-from-chatgpt-such-as-delve-and-meticulous.html

Lawsuit: Chatbot that allegedly caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids

Google-funded Character.AI added guardrails, but grieving mom wants a recall.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/10/chatbots-posed-as-therapist-and-adult-lover-in-teen-suicide-case-lawsuit-says

iOS 18.2 developer beta adds ChatGPT and image-generation features

AI image-generation features headline Apple’s upcoming software update.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ios-18-2-developer-beta-adds-chatgpt-and-image-generation-features

Google offers its AI watermarking tech as free open source toolkit

SynthID provides a hidden way to mark LLM output as artificial.

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/google-offers-its-ai-watermarking-tech-as-free-open-source-toolkit

UK competition regulator to investigate Alphabet’s investment in Anthropic | TechCrunch

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into Alphabet's investment in AI rival, Anthropic.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/uk-competition-regulator-to-investigate-alphabets-investment-in-anthropic

Andreessen Horowitz is renting a bunch of Nvidia GPUs to its portfolio companies | TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz has a massive cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs to help its portfolio of AI startups meet their compute needs, the venture capital firm

techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/andreessen-horowitz-helps-founders-meet-compute-needs-with-oxygen-private-gpu-cluster

OpenAI hires its first chief economist | TechCrunch

OpenAI has hired its first chief economist: former Commerce Department chief economist Aaron Chatterji, an architect of the 2022 Chips Act.

techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/openai-hires-its-first-chief-economist

Kevin Bacon, Thom Yorke, Julianne Moore and thousands of other creatives sign petition against AI data scraping | TechCrunch

What do the actor Kevin Bacon, the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the musician Robert Smith, and the journalist and historian Sidney Blumenthal have in common?

techcrunch.com/2024/10/22/thousands-of-creatives-sign-petition-against-ai-data-scraping

Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source

The company conducted a massive experiment on its watermarking tool SynthID’s usefulness by letting millions of Gemini users rank it.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/23/1106105/google-deepmind-is-making-its-ai-text-watermark-open-source

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