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California AI law advances; Oprah hosts TV special on AI; Meta leads open-source AI

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News

• California advances landmark legislation to regulate large AI models (The Guardian)

• SAG-AFTRA celebrates passage of California AI bill regulating use of digital replicas (AOL, LA Times)

• Oprah Winfrey to Host ‘AI and the Future of Us’ ABC Special With Bill Gates and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Variety)

• Meta leads open-source AI boom, Llama downloads surge 10x year-over-year (VentureBeat)

Software

• NVIDIA launches ‘easy button’ for creating gen AI workflows (CIO)

• Comfy Anything 🐈: Community ComfyUI workflows running on fal.ai (HuggingFace)

• FLUX.1 ai-toolkit now has an official UI with Gradio (X)

Research

• Spann3R 3D Reconstruction with Spatial Memory (project page)

• ReconX: Reconstruct Any Scene from Sparse Views with Video Diffusion Model (project page)

• OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction (project page)

Misc

• The power of Gen AI brought together two of the greatest stories ever told. (X)

• AI is bringing back creatures of the deep, and they're kind of sick (X)