The Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration announced the latest registration notice for generative AI services, aimed at further promoting the innovative development and standardized application of generative AI in the city. According to the requirements of the 'Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services', Shanghai has orderly carried out the filing work for generative AI services and registered services that call the registered model capabilities through API or other methods. As of now, Shanghai has added 9 newly registered generative AI services, bringing the total number of registered services to 63.

In a significant innovation in the digital payment realm, payment solution provider iWallet has pioneered a voice AI payment system. This groundbreaking technology marks the official entry of the payment industry into the era of intelligent voice interaction. Currently, the payment industry still commonly uses traditional technologies such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF), which not only hinder user experience but also pose challenges in terms of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. Addressing this pain point, the voice AI system developed by iWallet ensures PCI compliance.

Recently, OpenAI announced a partnership with defense contractor Anduril, which has sparked strong reactions from employees within the company. Many employees expressed their concerns about the military applications of OpenAI technology on the internal discussion platform and demanded more transparency from the company. Source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed by Midjourney. According to a report from The Washington Post, employees questioned whether AI technology could be limited to defensive drone attacks and even raised concerns like

In recent years, large language models represented by ChatGPT have sparked a new wave in the AI field. These powerful language models can not only understand human instructions but also formulate plans, explore environments, and utilize tools to solve complex tasks, demonstrating immense potential in areas such as robotics, personal assistants, and process automation. However, most existing AI entity systems are passive, requiring explicit human instructions to perform tasks. To schedule a meeting, one still has to manually input the time, location, and even list out all the participants, which is quite cumbersome.

With the continuous growth of global content consumption, the demand for non-English content is rapidly increasing, even surpassing English movies and shows. In this context, IMAX has begun to leverage artificial intelligence technology to drive the localization process of its original content to attract more viewers. According to a report by PwC, the global entertainment and media industry reached $2.8 trillion in 2023, and is expected to grow at an average annual rate of nearly 4% over the next five years, reaching $3.4 trillion. Particularly, the popularity of non-English language content is rising in the United States and beyond.

Today, Xiaomi announced that its Smart Home Screen series products will undergo a major functional upgrade, including new features such as Super Q&A and casual conversation. This upgrade will cover six devices: Xiaomi Smart Home Screen 10, Xiaomi Smart Home Screen Pro 8, Xiaomi Smart Home Screen 6, Xiaomi Xiao Ai Touch Screen Speaker Pro 8, Redmi Xiao Ai Touch Screen Speaker Pro 8, and Redmi Xiao Ai Touch Screen Speaker 8-inch.

Entrepreneur Ivan Crewkov from Siberia discovered the immense potential of AI in education after a failed attempt in the smart speaker market, inspired by his daughter's experience learning English. His children's English education AI company Buddy.ai recently raised $11 million in seed funding, led by BITKRAFT Ventures, as its AI technology and business model focused on addressing children's English learning challenges gained recognition from investors. Crewkov's entrepreneurial journey has been quite dramatic.

Artificial intelligence company Cartesia recently launched a voice conversion model called "Voice Changer". Unlike traditional voice conversion, this model not only transforms the input voice into the target voice but also preserves prosodic features such as intonation and stress from the original voice. According to Cartesia's official sources, users can try this feature on the website play.cartesia.ai. The company has also released related API documentation, which developers can access through docs.cartesia.ai.

In an age of information overload, efficiently acquiring knowledge has become a challenge for many learners and professionals. Recently, an open-source tool named PDF2Audio has emerged, cleverly combining artificial intelligence technology with traditional reading methods to provide users with a new way of obtaining information. The core function of PDF2Audio is to convert PDF documents into audio content. This tool utilizes OpenAI's GPT model for text generation and speech synthesis, allowing various PDF files to be transformed into podcasts, lectures, or excerpts.

Recently, a new study has drawn attention, revealing that ChatGPT's responses reflect the cultural values of people from English-speaking and Protestant countries. The core of this study is that large language models like ChatGPT were trained on a vast amount of data from certain countries and cultures, which may lead to outputs that carry cultural biases. The research team, led by René F Kizilcec and his colleagues, examined five different versions of OpenAI's GPT.

MiHoYo founder Cai Haoyu expressed his views on social media, believing that artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) technology will fundamentally transform the game development industry. He predicts that the future of game creation will be primarily occupied by two groups: on one hand, the top genius teams, accounting for 0.0001% of the industry, who will create groundbreaking game works; on the other hand, 99% will be amateur enthusiasts who will freely develop games based on personal interests.