This week's IndyAI Weekly dives into the latest happenings in the ever-evolving world of Artificial Intelligence. We explore a potential shift in US AI policy, groundbreaking advancements in medical diagnosis, and exciting new tools for creators and businesses. Discover the latest research, funding news, and hot job opportunities in the booming AI field. Let's unlock the potential of AI together!

• 🚀 AI News 

• 🔍 Decoded: AI's Latest Moves

• 🏆 Last Week's Top Headlines 

• 🆕 AI Shorts 

• 🛠️ Top AI Tools of the Week 

• 🎓 AI Learning Lab

• Trump Allies Draft AI Executive Order: Former President Trump's allies are drafting an order focusing on boosting military AI, reducing regulations, and potentially repealing President Biden's AI executive order. 

• AI Data Harvesting Controversy: A new investigation reveals tech giants like Apple and Anthropic may have used content from YouTube videos to train their AI models without creator consent. 

• Claude Android App Released: Anthropic launches its powerful AI chatbot, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, on the Android platform.

AI Learns to Explain Itself: OpenAI's New Research

Can AI become more trustworthy?

OpenAI is exploring a method to make large language models like ChatGPT generate more understandable and verifiable outputs. Their approach involves a "Prover-Verifier Game" where AIs play against each other, pushing the "proving" AI to explain its answers in a way the "verifying" AI (and, hopefully, humans) can understand. This research offers promise for building more trustworthy AI systems in the future but also highlights the challenge of balancing explainability with raw capability.

🖥️ Microsoft Gives AI a Spreadsheet Boost with Spreadsheet LLM

• Aims to transform Excel from a static grid into a dynamic, question-answering powerhouse

• Harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs)

• Could potentially reshape workflows for millions of users worldwide

  Challenges: Overcoming the difficulty LLMs face in understanding the spreadsheet data model

🎙️ YouTube Music Gets New AI Features

• Sound search feature rolling out

• AI 'conversational radio' in testing

• Enhances user experience and music discovery

📱 Microsoft's AI Designer App Goes Mobile

• Now available worldwide on mobile and Windows platforms

• Offers advanced image generation, editing, and design capabilities

• Free version provides 15 daily 'boosts' for AI creations

• New features include 'prompt templates', 'Restyle', and 'Frame'

⚕️AI's Medical Touch: New Discoveries

AI Improves Alzheimer's Predictions Key points:

• Robust and interpretable predictive prognostic model (PPM) developed

• Uses non-invasive, low-cost data (cognitive tests, structural MRI)

• Accurately predicts progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Alzheimer's Disease

• Generalizes from research to real-world patient data across memory clinics

• Outperforms standard clinical markers and diagnosis

Why it matters: This breakthrough could lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses of Alzheimer's Disease, potentially improving patient outcomes and clinical management strategies.

1. GanAI: Record and share personalized videos at scale

2. Krea AI Scene Transfer: Generate scenes with high-quality light and color consistency

3. MixAudio: Multimodal AI music generator and editor

4. Inrō: Instagram co-pilot for DM marketing

5. SmartCrawl: Turn any website into an API

6. Sugar Free: Detect hidden sugars and make healthier choices with AI

Recent developments:

• New ventures: Andrej Karpathy launching new AI Education company called Eureka Labs

• Free workshop: "1 Hour to AI Proficiency" offered by Section

• Funding news: Menlo Ventures unveiled $100M Anthology Fund in partnership with Anthropic

• New models:Hugging Face introduced SmolLM, a family of high-performing small language models

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The IndyAI Team (still human... we think 🤔)