Bible Verses of the Day

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. [1 Peter 1:3-5 ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🇺🇸 Sam Altman urges U.S. action to beat China in AI race

• 🐕️ Researchers use AI to train (robotic) dogs to respond to their masters

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud News

• 📰 AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

Sam Altman, OpenAI co-founder and CEO, is calling for a "U.S.-led global coalition" to ensure a democratic vision for AI prevails over an authoritarian one — and says both Washington and state governments must act with more urgency.

"The future continues to come at us fast," Altman told Axios in a phone interview Wednesday. "I'm grateful that some stuff is happening [at the White House and on Capitol Hill]. But I don't think we're seeing the level of seriousness that this warrants."

"If they manage to take the lead on AI," Altman writes, "they will force U.S. companies and those of other nations to share user data, leveraging the technology to develop new ways of spying on their own citizens or creating next-generation cyberweapons to use against other countries."

An international collaboration seeks to innovate the future of how a mechanical man's best friend interacts with its owner, using a combination of AI and edge computing called edge intelligence.

The project is sponsored through a one-year seed grant from the Institute for Future Technologies (IFT), a partnership between New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).

The overarching project goal is to make the dog come "alive" by adapting wearable-based sensing devices that can detect physiological and emotional stimuli inherent to one's personality and traits, such as introversions, or transient states, including pain and comfort levels.

The invention will have an impact on home and healthcare settings in battling loneliness in the elderly population and be an aid in therapy and rehabilitation.

Easy Cloud News

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud Solutions: Now All Easy Cloud Customer Websites are Safe from AI Bots (link)

• ⛪️ Easy Cloud AI: Enhance Your Church Outreach with Beluga’s Sermon Transcripts (link)

• ☁️ Easy Cloud’s Services: What We Offer (link)

Listen or read the following transcript as Richard Belcher provides an in-depth analysis of the first 32 chapters of Ezekiel. He emphasizes God’s messages of judgment and restoration.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 🇬🇧 Microsoft faces UK antitrust probe after hiring Inflection AI founders and employees (link)

• 💸 Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs (link)

• 📸 Presti uses GenAI to replace costly furniture industry photo shoots (link)

• 🎶 YouTube Music tests an AI-generated radio feature and adds a song recognition tool (link)

• 🐠 Mistral AI and NVIDIA unveil 12B NeMo model (link)

AI Tools

• 🤣 Punchlines: Meet your new AI comedy writing partner (link)

• 🛠️ TopAI.tools: Find the best AI tools for every task (link)

• 👩 Faceswapper: Seamlessly swap one face with another (link)

• 📚️ Gradescope: Administer and grade all of your assessments (link)

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