An interview with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Fei-Fei Li on deep learning’s progress since 2012’s groundbreaking ImageNet database research (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet:
An interview with Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today’s most popular approaches to AI won’t lead to human-level intelligence  —  (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.)  —  Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties, owner of Facebook …

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
OpenAI releases DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image  —  Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers can now integrate DALL-E directly into their apps and products.

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
Intel unveils FakeCatcher, a web app to detect deepfakes in real time that works by analyzing the subtle “blood flow” in video pixels, claims 96% accuracy rate  —  On Monday, Intel introduced FakeCatcher, which it says is the first real-time detector of deepfakes — that is …

Cade Metz / New York Times:
A look at Anthropic, which raised $580M led by SBF in April to research “AI safety”, and 70 AI-related organizations SBF and FTX executives invested $530M+ in  —  Mr. Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Steve Haske / Ars Technica:
A history of consumer VR since 2012, from the first Oculus developer kit and the 2016 hype cycle to Quest 2, and what mainstream success for VR could look like  —  VR hasn’t taken over the world, but that doesn’t mean it has failed.  —  Six years ago, consumer virtual reality seemed set to be the next major tech breakthrough.

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg:
El Salvador’s Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele  —  On an estuary along the coast of El Salvador, a few miles west of the Conchagua volcano, about 70 families live in a settlement called Flor de Mangle.