The Download: how AI is changing music, and a US city’s AI experiment
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Summary
A US city is using AI to ask residents for their ideas as to what should be included in a 25-year plan for the city, with residents able to go to a website to submit their ideas, as well as vote on others’ ideas, though researchers question the reliability of this form of understanding a community’s wants and needs.
Colossal Biosciences is seeking a patent for exclusive legal rights to create and sell gene-edited elephants containing ancient mammoth DNA, despite the company previously announcing it was going to bring back the woolly mammoth.
OpenAI may be building its own social media network to generate more human-generated content to train its AI models.
Facebook’s parent company, Meta, faced an antitrust lawsuit in the US last month, with the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, testifying in court last week, though he offered to settle the case earlier this week, which was rejected by the head of the FTC.
Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods are starting to hit US startups harder, with many startups now deciding to set up shop in Mexico to avoid the tariffs.