DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist

 DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF

              By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane

GOOGLE, UNIVERSAL & AI MUSIC DEEPFAKES

                                                        Source:  Universal & Stock

• New AI tech that mimics artists' voices is a big and growing threat to the music industry
• Google & Universal Music, home to music superstars like Taylor Swift and Drake, are upending the game by forming a partnership that would develop technology to license music generated by AI and thereby monetize and defeat the deepfake threat
• Here are some key facts:

1. AI music fakes are a big and surging problem that precisely mimics the voices and melodies of music stars without their consent or compensation
2. Drake's music in particular has been subject to AI cloning along with other superstars like Taylor Swift and Frank Sinatra
3. Google and Universal are in talks to create a tool that would enable users to create AI generated music legally and pay the owners of the copyrights for the right to do so
4. Artists can choose to participate or not
5. Separately, Warner Brothers is also talking to Google about developing a technological remedy to the accelerating use of AI to create music deepfakes

• This is an important new issue concerning the use of AI to clone artistic property that raises many important legal issues to watch develop.

LAMBORGHINI'S 1st 100% ELECTRIC EV

                                                            Source:  Lamborghini

                                                                

• Italian luxury sports car maker Lamborghini has announced its first ever all-electric vehicle
• It will debut 8/23 at the Monterey Car Week
• Here's what we know:

1. The car will be shown in prototype form
2. A 4-door sedan version was put on hold a few years ago because of the global financial crisis but in today's financial climate and with Lamborghini's record-breaking financial results it is being launched
3. UK publication Autocar thinks it will take the form of the 2008 Lamborghini Estoque
4. It will be sold as a limited edition and be very rare
5. It's thought to be going into production in 2028
6. According to Lamborghini's CEO Mitja Borkert, the model debuting in Monterey will be a daily, usable, 2-door sedan with generous ground clearance

• Borkert added it will look like a spaceship.

ROBOT KEEPING LAKE TAHOE BLUE

                                    Source:  Searial Cleaners

• It's called PixieDrone & it's the new aquatic robot resident of California's beautiful Lake Tahoe
• Pixie is the Lake's environmental keeper that extracts trash and invasive plants from the Lake's pristine blue waters, as well as from other lakes and waterways around the world
• Here are the key facts:

1. Deployed by non-profit Keep Tahoe Blue
2. PixieDrone innovated and created by French startup Searial Cleaners
3. Works to clean lakes the way humans can't
4. Uses LIDAR tech to detect debris and invasive plants
5. Works like a humpback whale and captures the debris in its open mouth
6. Autonomous or remote-controlled
7. About the size of a desk

• This tech is being deployed in other places like the Great Lakes
• There is also a companion robot to clean the shoreline.

"Daily Innovation Brief" © By Edward Kane