Pink Beaver Loopy Goes Viral, with Over Ten Thousand Likes on Xiaohongshu AI Art Creations

The police in New Mexico, USA, used AI-generated images of a virtual 14-year-old girl to lure sexual offenders, aiming to investigate the protection of children from sexual exploitation on the Snapchat platform. This method has sparked discussions on ethics, legality, and AI ethics, particularly regarding the legality of AI-generated images, privacy rights, and consent issues. Legal experts point out that creating and using deepfake child sexual abuse material is illegal and concerning. Moreover, the requirement for real children's images as training datasets for AI-generated images raises concerns about children.
Arcee AI introduces SuperNova, a 70 billion parameter large language model designed for enterprise deployment, aimed at providing a powerful, owned, data-privacy-focused, stable, and customizable AI solution. SuperNova utilizes Meta's Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct architecture and features advanced instruction-following capabilities through an innovative post-training process. It supports full customization for enterprises and allows deployment in their own cloud environments, ensuring data security.
The technology company 'Accelerated Evolution', dedicated to humanoid robot research and development, has completed hundreds of millions in pre-A funding, with investors including Bianshi Times, Minyin International, Zhongguancun Science City, and iCANX Fund, along with follow-up investment from Inno Angel. The funds will primarily be used for the development of a general ontology and enhancement of software development capabilities. CEO Cheng Hao pointed out that the AI-driven humanoid robot boom, especially the demand for vehicles of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), is driving the transition of humanoid robots from specialization to generalization. The company's phase one commercial positioning is to provide developers with general biped robots.
With Apple launching the AI-enabled iPhone 16 series, the AI smartphone market enters a new phase. Both major global smartphone operating systems have introduced AI smartphone products, offering consumers more choices. A Canalys report forecasts that the rapid development of AI technology will propel the mobile communication industry into a new era. By the end of 2024, approximately 16% of newly shipped smartphones will feature AI capabilities. The AI smartphone market is expected to exceed 1 billion units in cumulative shipments by 2026, driven primarily by advancements in chip technology and growing consumer demand.
Glean, an AI-driven enterprise work platform, raised $260 million in Series E financing, doubling its valuation to $4.6 billion, co-led by Altimeter and DST Global. Glean's mission is to provide work AI for everyone, connecting and deeply understanding enterprise data, personnel, processes, and environments, while maintaining intuitiveness and security, becoming a reliable tool in daily work. Since its launch in 2019, Glean has evolved from an AI-powered enterprise search engine to a comprehensive enterprise AI assistant.