Top AI & Tech News (Through Nov. 24th)

Hello AI Citizens 🤖,

This Week is a Bit Crazy … From UFOs (yes, you read that right 🤯) to AGI by 2026, and groundbreaking tools and breakthroughs reshaping our economy and society forever—this lineup is packed with mind-blowing updates you won’t want to miss.

Here’s how to navigate this week’s newsletter:

#1 Top News & Trends:

• Elon Musk Predicts AGI Could Arrive by 2026—or Even Earlier

• Not Alone in the Cosmos': Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Claims U.S. Government Hides Evidence

• OpenAI Secures $6.6 Billion, Hits $157 Billion Valuation in Historic Raise

• AI Designing Chips for AI

• Big AI Goes Military: Meta and Anthropic Pursue Defense Contracts

• ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnostic accuracy, study reveals?

• How AI Could Disrupt Entry-Level Careers

• Have We Crossed the AGI Threshold Without Realizing It?

#2 The AI SuperHuman Zone
• Eleven Labs Conversation AI Tutorial
• Meet Neo: The World’s First Autonomous ML Engineer

#3 For Geeks
• Qwen2.5-Turbo: Context Length Breakthrough to 1 Million Tokens

#4 Top AI Tools of the Week
• We selected for you this week great tools for sales, coding, AI agents, workflow automation, video editing, and even dream interpretation. 🚀

#5 AI in 2071
• Episode #6: The Entity. A Superintelligence Reflects on the Universe and Existence.

#6 Featured Program
• Details about the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) program

#7 Free Resources
• Learn the essentials of AI in just one hour—perfect for impressing at your next business dinner 😎.

Let’s dive in 🚀!

#1 Top AI & Tech News and Trends
(Through November 24th, 2024)

Elon Musk Predicts AGI Could Arrive by 2026—or Even Earlier

Elon Musk has boldly predicted that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—machines with human-level understanding—could emerge by 2026, if not sooner. Musk joins a growing chorus of AI leaders forecasting rapid advancements in AGI development. While futurist Ray Kurzweil and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton project AGI by 2029, and OpenAI’s Sam Altman teases a potential breakthrough as early as 2025, Musk’s prediction underscores the accelerated pace of AI innovation. With experts divided on timelines but united in anticipation, the world watches as AGI moves from speculative to inevitable. Source: ChainCatcher

Not Alone in the Cosmos': Former Pentagon UFO Investigator Claims U.S. Government Hides Evidence

Former Pentagon intelligence officer David Grusch has publicly claimed that the U.S. government is concealing evidence of extraterrestrial life, including recovered spacecraft of non-human origin. Testifying before Congress in 2023 alongside former Navy pilots who have encountered unexplained aerial phenomena, Grusch asserted that we are "not alone in the cosmos" and that information about these findings has been illegally withheld from both the public and lawmakers. His allegations have intensified calls for government transparency regarding unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), challenging official denials and sparking global interest in the potential existence of alien life. Credit: US House of Representatives

OpenAI Secures $6.6 Billion, Hits $157 Billion Valuation in Historic Raise

In October 2024, Sam Altman shattered records with a $6.6 billion funding round, propelling OpenAI’s valuation to an eye-popping $157 billion, nearly doubling its worth from earlier in the year. This historic raise—the largest in VC history—comes as Altman consolidates power a year after his dramatic ousting and reinstatement as CEO. Backed by Microsoft, NVIDIA, and others (though Apple passed), the funds fuel moonshot ambitions like nuclear-powered data centers for AGI. Yet, OpenAI faces challenges: defections of top talent like Mira Murati and Ilya Sutskever have spawned rivals like Anthropic and Musk’s XAI, which is now suing OpenAI for alleged monopoly practices. With whispers of a $100 billion raise on the horizon, Altman’s bold vision drives OpenAI into uncharted territory. Source: CNBC

AI Designing Chips for AI

AI is revolutionizing chip design, enabling faster, cheaper, and more efficient development of specialized microchips critical for advancing AI itself. Tools like Google DeepMind's AlphaChip and Synopsys.ai’s Copilot use reinforcement and generative AI to optimize chip designs beyond human capability, reducing costs and time while enhancing energy efficiency. This innovation addresses skyrocketing demand for chips powering AI, autonomous systems, and more, potentially democratizing the industry by allowing smaller teams to design competitive chips. With AI driving the process, the future of chip design could be as simple as describing a need and receiving a ready-to-manufacture blueprint. Source: Big Think

Big AI Goes Military: Meta and Anthropic Pursue Defense Contracts

In a significant policy shift, Meta and Anthropic are now providing their AI models for U.S. defense and intelligence applications. Meta’s Llama models, including the specialized Defense Llama, will be integrated into military operations through partners like Lockheed Martin and Palantir, aiding tasks like adversary analysis and logistics. Anthropic’s Claude 3 models will assist defense agencies in data analysis and decision-making via platforms hosted by Amazon Web Services. This marks a turning point as AI becomes a staple in military operations, raising opportunities for innovation while spotlighting critical concerns around governance, accountability, and human rights in the militarization of AI​. Source: The New York Times

ChatGPT outperformed doctors in diagnostic accuracy, study reveals?

A study in JAMA Network Open found that ChatGPT-4 achieved 90% diagnostic accuracy, outperforming doctors who scored 76% when using the AI as support. Despite its potential to improve diagnostics, many physicians resisted or under-utilized the tool, often sticking to their initial diagnoses or treating ChatGPT like a basic search engine. Experts see AI as a valuable "doctor extender" but emphasize the need for better training, trust-building, and addressing ethical concerns to fully integrate these tools into healthcare. Source: The New York Times

How AI Could Disrupt Entry-Level Careers

Generative AI's ability to automate routine tasks, like data analysis and document preparation, threatens entry-level jobs in finance, law, marketing, and other white-collar industries. These roles traditionally serve as apprenticeships, where junior employees learn through on-the-job training by performing foundational work. AI could sever this "grunt work for learning" exchange, forcing companies to hire fewer entry-level staff or bypass traditional career ladders altogether. This shift risks stalling diversity progress and disrupting skill development, as AI-powered workflows prioritize efficiency over mentorship. Without proactive strategies, the professional pipeline may shrink, leaving the next generation of workers without critical growth opportunities. Source: Bloomberg

Have We Crossed the AGI Threshold Without Realizing It?

Recent breakthroughs from MIT reveal a groundbreaking approach to advancing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Using the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) benchmark—a tool designed to test true machine intelligence without relying on memorization—researchers achieved human-level reasoning for the first time. Leveraging innovative "test-time training," which updates model parameters in real time, the AI demonstrated creative and adaptive problem-solving. Combined with advanced search algorithms, this method propelled AI to surpass human performance, signalling a major leap toward AGI. This study highlights a potential path for machines to achieve, and potentially exceed, human cognitive abilities. Source: Geeky Gadgets

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