Our 150th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] Timestamps + links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter Tools & Apps(00:02:49) OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business (00:06:52) OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams Lighting round(00:09:18) The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you (00:11:18) Amazon’s Alexa gets new generative AI-powered experiences (00:12:55) Google appears to be working on an ‘advanced’ version of Bard that you have to pay for Applications & Business(00:14:24) Nvidia's newest chips are designed to run AI at home as competition from Intel, AMD looms (00:16:52) Valve opens the door to more Steam games developed with AI Lighting round(00:19:16) AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI, now valued at $520M, raises $73.6M (00:21:33) Waymo will start testing robotaxis on Phoenix highways (00:23:24) Getty and Nvidia bring generative AI to stock photos Research & Advancements(00:25:10) DeepMind is trying to train robots for real-world activities (00:29:03) MoE-Mamba: Efficient Selective State Space Models with Mixture of Experts Lighting round(00:33:18) PIXART-δ: Fast and Controllable Image Generation with Latent Consistency Models (00:35:20)  InseRF: Text-Driven Generative Object Insertion in Neural 3D Scenes (00:37:06) The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models (00:39:33) Mixtral of Experts Policy & Safety(00:40:38) Meta and OpenAI have spawned a wave of AI sex companions—and some of them are children (00:46:30) ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Lighting round(00:49:52) Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions (00:51:43) Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models are Pervasive Synthetic Media & Art(00:55:09) A list going viral reveals famous artists whose work was used to train AI generator (00:58:28) YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated true crime deepfakes Lighting round(01:00:27) AI-Generated George Carlin Comedy Special Slammed by Comedian’s Daughter (01:01:56) SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games (01:03:26) Early Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain—and AI is already on the case