Mon. 05/06 – AI Generated Books, Music Videos And… Fighter Pilots?

Jack Dorsey abandoned Twitter and now he’s abandoned Bluesky as well. YouTube rolls out Jump Ahead. Threads launches post quote controls. More than 40 thousand books on Audible are now voiced by AI. The Air Force is planning more than a thousand AI fighter jets by the end of the decade. And if you’re listening to this on Apple Podcasts, please listen to the end for an important announcement.

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Links:

• Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board (TechCrunch)
• YouTube's AI-powered 'Jump Ahead' feature rolling out widely to Premium users (AndroidAuthority)
• Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users (TechCrunch)
• AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible (Bloomberg)
• An AI-controlled fighter jet took the Air Force leader for a historic ride. What that means for war (AP)
• Hugging Face launches LeRobot open source robotics code library (VentureBeat)
• Washed Out’s new music video was created with AI. Is it a watershed moment for Sora? (LATimes)

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