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xAI to Open Source Grok, Google Gemini AI Updates

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Quite a bit of AI news for today. Sam Altman gets reinstated and new OpenAI board members, Hugging Face launches an open source robotics project, xAI will open source Grok, Walmart’s success in generative AI search, and a few more bits of AI news we thought you’d like to know about on this Monday.

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  • OpenAI announces new board members and reinstates CEO Sam Altman. Joining him are three new members: former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Sue Desmond-Hellmann, ex-Sony Entertainment president Nicole Seligman, and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo.

  • Nvidia faces a lawsuit from authors over alleged copyright infringement in AI models.

  • After an engineer's complaints, Microsoft blocked terms that made inappropriate images on Copilot Designer.

  • OpenAI’s new video tool Sora faces scrutiny in Italy over data privacy concerns.

  • Hugging Face is launching an open source robotics project led by a former Tesla scientist.

  • Elon Musk announces xAI will open source Grok.

  • Why iOS 18 could be a bigger deal than the iPhone 16. Everyone's waiting to see how Apple incorporates generative AI into the iPhone. iOS 18 could provide the answer.

  • Google releases new Gemini update to give users more control over the chatbot responses.

  • Should Walmart’s quick success in generative AI search have Google worried?

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