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Coca-Cola and Microsoft have announced a five-year strategic partnership to advance the digital transformation of the beverage giant through Microsoft's cloud technologies and artificial intelligence innovations.

Artificial intelligence developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Stability AI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have pledged to bolster security measures to protect children during the development and deployment of AI models. This effort is spearheaded by the nonprofits All Tech Is Human and Thorn, dedicated to child safety.

Google has fired 28 workers who objected to its deal with the Israeli Defense Ministry, which includes using cloud-based AI technologies. These employees had accused the company's leadership of contributing to the genocide of Palestinians.

Amazon Music is beta-testing a feature known as Maestro, an artificial intelligence-driven playlist generator. This functionality allows users to create personalized playlists through text input, emojis, specified emotions, or even auditory cues like other songs.

The executive committee of SAG-AFTRA, the united union of actors and musicians, has provisionally approved a new agreement with major recording companies, including Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Among other things, this agreement addresses the regulation of artificial intelligence in the music industry.

Celesta Capital, a venture firm managing over $1 billion in assets, has identified the United States as the best location for investments in artificial intelligence. This decision is largely influenced by the U.S.'s proactive policies to stimulate domestic chip manufacturing. Celesta has historically invested in AI, with a particular focus on healthcare and autonomous transportation sectors.

As India enters a six-week electoral period, misinformation is on the rise. According to Pratik Sinha, co-founder of the Indian fact-checking website Alt News, this misinformation is particularly aimed at dividing society and often targets specific communities on social media.

Adobe is working on a new artificial intelligence model from the Firefly family, set to be integrated into Adobe Premiere Pro. This tool will enable users to create videos based on textual queries, manipulate objects within the footage, and expand the length of video recordings.

WhatsApp is testing the Meta AI chatbot among its user base in India and some yet-to-be-revealed regions. Remarkably, more than 500 million of WhatsApp’s 2 billion users worldwide are in India.

YouTube's CEO, Neal Mohan, has made it clear that OpenAI is forbidden from using YouTube user content to train its AI model, Sora, capable of creating short videos based on textual inputs. Mohan emphasized that this goes against YouTube's service terms.