🌐 Top AI and Tech News of this Week

AI dominates tech news, from Spanish TV influencers to Google's $20M accelerator, amidst debates on ethics and energy, a fierce talent race, and tech giants facing privacy challenges as it transforms

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These are the most important Tech and AI News of the week

📰 AI News and Trends

• AI-Powered Virtual Influencer Lands Job on Spanish Television (Oddity)

• This AI model spots workplace accidents before they happen (TNW)

• Google.org launches $20M generative AI accelerator program (TC)

• Here’s why AI search engines really can’t kill Google (TheVerge)

• Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy (WSJ)

• California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (TheGuardian)

• Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn (404)

• ChatGPT use grows, yet only 23% of U.S. adults have used it (PewResearch)

• NTIA calls for high-risk AI audits (Axios)

• How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war, Meta offers jobs without interviews (FT)

• Stability AI CEO resigns to ‘pursue decentralized AI’ (TheVerge)

• OpenAI Heading To Hollywood To Pitch Revolutionary “Sora” (Deadline)

• China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers (Silicon)

🌐 Other Tech news

• Four Canadian school boards sue TikTok, Meta, and Snapchat (Axios)

• The FDA did not inspect Neuralink before granting human trial approval (Neoscope)

• With TikTok Under Fire, Brands That Rely on It Worry (NYT)

• SBF’s prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era — so what’s next? (TC)

• London Stock Exchange Will Start Market for Bitcoin and Ether ETNs May 28 (CoinDesk)

• Tesla requires a Full Self-Driving demo for all prospects in North America. (CNBC)

• BYD’s annual earnings surge 81% to an all-time high on record EV deliveries, warns of weak consumer demand and global headwinds (SCMP)

• Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key (TheVerge)

• Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project (TC)

• Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time (Wired)

• Neuralink alleges that it already allows blind monkeys to see again (Futurism)

• A 62-year-old man in Massachusetts is the first person to ever receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a transplant (Wired)

• Apple researchers explore dropping “Siri” phrase & listening with AI instead (MIT)

• EU probes Apple, Meta and Alphabet under landmark new law (FT)

• Why the Pentagon wants to build thousands of easily replaceable, AI-enabled drones (Vox)

• EU scraps proposed $1K payment limit for self-custody crypto wallets (CT)

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