AI powers India's historic moon landing

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🗞️ The Latest: AI drives India’s historic moon landing

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Remini — Turn selfies into professional headshots

📸 Industry Spotlight: Hollywood strikers stand firm

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

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🗞️ The Latest: AI drives India’s historic moon landing

Chandrayaan-3 has landed on the moon. AI-driven sensors played a huge role in ensuring a secure landing.

Key points:

• India becomes the first country to reach the moon’s lunar south pole, and the fourth country ever to achieve a moon landing.

• AI-driven sensors helped the lander anticipate lunar topography, identify potential hazards, and navigate its descent.

• AI will also assist the rover’s lunar exploration phase. AI algorithms will help locate and map intriguing lunar features, and chart the rover’s optimal route for efficient exploration.

• AI will lead the analysis phase after the spacecraft collects data.

The bottom line: AI is establishing itself as a crucial asset across different industries. Chandrayaan-3 may set the stage for the future of AI-driven space exploration.

🤖 AI Tool of the Day: Remini — Turn selfies into professional headshots

Remini can generate pro-quality, realistic images from just eight selfie photos. The app went viral last month after users realized Remini could be used to create AI headshots.

Take a look at my new LinkedIn profile picture, generated by Remini:

Remini soured to the top of the App Store after blowing up on TikTok. Click here to learn more. Download Remini for free in the App Store.

📸 Industry Spotlight: Hollywood strikers stand firm

Hollywood producers are turning up the pressure on striking writers — but writers aren’t caving. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) publicly released a counteroffer to the Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Tuesday.

Key points:

• The counteroffer details proposals surrounding AI, residuals, streaming data transparency and more.

• The AMPTP claims this offer “addresses all of the issues the Guild has identified as its highest priorities.” It was first presented to writers on August 11.

• The WGA writes that the AMPTP is just trying to get writers to “cave.”

• It met with the CEOs of Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. and others this week. The counteroffer was released publicly shortly after.

The bottom line: Writers have been on strike since May, with Hollywood actors joining them in July. The strike is still at a stalemate as both sides refuse to give in to the other’s demands.

🚨 AI Roundup: Four quick hits

• OpenAI: Businesses can now fine-tune GPT-3.5 Turbo using their own data.

• The big winner: Nvidia reports revenue of $13.51 billion in Q2. The company is the market leader in AI chip production.

• Text-to-image: Microsoft Paint could soon get AI-enhanced features in Windows 11.

• Locking up shop: Google plans to bring AI-fueled security enhancements to Google Workspace.

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