YouTube creators surprised to find Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic and others trained AI on their videos

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1. YouTube creators surprised to find Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic and others trained AI on their videos

AI models at major tech companies like Apple, Salesforce, and Anthropic were trained on tens of thousands of YouTube videos without the creators' consent, potentially violating YouTube's terms. The companies used "the Pile," a collection by nonprofit EleutherAI, which includes books, Wikipedia articles, and YouTube captions.

The Pile has been used by tech companies for training in the past and has been cited in multiple lawsuits by intellectual property owners against AI and tech companies. The data collection is robust and calls attention to the limited control intellectual property owners have over their work's use on the open web.

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2. Ex-OpenAI and Tesla engineer Andrej Karpathy announces AI-native school Eureka Labs

Andrej Karpathy, an AI researcher and computer scientist, has announced his new venture, Eureka Labs, which aims to create an AI-native school. The company aims to provide a "teacher + AI symbiosis" where human expert-written course materials are scaled and guided with an AI Teaching Assistant.

Karpathy believes that generative AI will allow for a more accessible and accessible learning experience, expanding education in both reach and extent. Eureka Labs will launch its first product, LLM101n, an undergraduate-level course that will help students train their own AI. The course materials will be available online, but Eureka plans to run digital and physical cohorts of students running through the program together.

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3. Anthropic's Claude chatbot is now an Android app

Anthropic has launched its Claude chatbot as an Android app, following its free iOS app launch in May. The app is free and compatible with both Pro and Team plans for paid users. Conversations with Claude can occur across hardware, with both mobile apps and the web version connected.

Claude is one of several large-language model AI chatbots available to the public, with OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool being the most popular. Anthropic reports that the Claude 3 version of the platform performed better than ChatGPT and Google's Gemini on some benchmarks. The Sonnet 3.5 version also performed well in comparison to the Claude 3 Opus version.

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4. On enterprise AI startup: CEO resigns, staff laid off after $11M in cash goes missing

On, an AI startup, has laid off all 60 staff members after discovering $11 million in cash was missing. CEO Alex Beckman resigned under pressure, and the board conducted an investigation. The board discovered that the account with $11 million was only 37 cents, leaving the company in a liquidity crisis.

The board and management halted operations and laid off nearly all of its workforce on July 8. The remaining cash was used to pay for the sudden terminations, as California requires same-day payouts when employees are terminated.

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5. Google brings AI agent platform Project Oscar open source

Google has launched Project Oscar, an open-source platform that enables open-source development teams to create AI agents to manage software programs. The platform can help monitor issues or bugs, and may be released to manage closed-source projects in the future.

The agents can interact through natural language, allowing users to give instructions without needing to redo any code. Project Oscar is expected to be deployed to other open-source projects from Google.

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