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Bible Verses of the Day

2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” [Revelation 21:2-4 ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 😯 Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy

• 🏃 AI breakthrough in human action detection technology

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Character.AI is being targeted in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform.

According to The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III, a ninth grader from Orlando, spent months talking to chatbots on Character.AI’s AI role-playing app.

Setzer developed an emotional attachment to one bot in particular, “Dany,” which he texted constantly — to the point where he began to pull away from the real world. Setzer confessed having thoughts of suicide to the bot and messaged it shortly before his death.

Here is another more detailed report from PCMag.

What if a security camera could not only capture video but understand what's happening -- distinguishing between routine activities and potentially dangerous behavior in real time? That's the future being shaped by researchers at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science with their latest breakthrough: an AI-driven intelligent video analyzer capable of detecting human actions in video footage with unprecedented precision and intelligence.

The system, called the Semantic and Motion-Aware Spatiotemporal Transformer Network (SMAST), promises a wide range of societal benefits from enhancing surveillance systems and improving public safety to enabling more advanced motion tracking in healthcare and refining how autonomous vehicles navigate through complex environments.

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Listen or read the following transcript as Kent Hughes discusses the biblical foundation of marriage. He emphasizes the complementary roles of man and woman, the significance of the marital bond, and how marriage reflects God’s design and purposes.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 💸 Microsoft and OpenAI are weighing the value of $14 billion (link)

• 👨‍💻 Can AI sandbag safety checks to sabotage users? Yes, but not very well, for now (link)

• 🤖 MIT News: Combining next-token prediction and video diffusion in computer vision and robotics (link)

• 🎦 Meta let Blumhouse test its AI-powered video generator (link)

• 👩 Women in AI: Marissa Hummon thinks AI will help make the power grid greener (link)

AI Tools

• 🐋 Beluga: Christian sermon and lecture transcripts, translations and more (link)

• 💻️ AIUI: Convert screenshots of UI elements into reusable React.js and Tailwind CSS components quickly (link)

• 🗺️ Leadsmrt: Scrape, verify, & personalize leads from Google Maps (link)

• 📽️ AnyEnhancer: Enhance your video quality and perfect every moment (link)

• 🪴 PlantIn: Instantly identify any plant (link)