OpenAI forms Collective Alignment team, Adobe adds AI to Premiere Pro

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OpenAI forms a Collective Alignment team of researchers and engineers to create a system for collecting public input to ensure its AI models “align to the values of humanity.” - Link

Adobe adds beta AI audio editing tools in Premiere Pro, including labeling clips as dialogue, music, and more, and plans to roll out a dialogue clean-up tool. - Link

Apple to launch its Apple Vision Pro with many entertainment experiences, including 150 3D movies, immersive films and series, a Travel Mode feature, streaming services like Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, and more. - Link

London-based notetaking startup, Goodnotes, acquires South Korean startup Dropthebit, aiming to move beyond classrooms and explore making productivity tools for professionals. - Link

Locofy, a Singapore-based frontend development platform backed by Accel, wants to save hours of work with a one-click tool that instantly turns Figma and AdobeXD prototypes into code. - Link

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Advice of the Day

Talent Density and Using a 'Keeper Test'

Reed Hastings, founder of Netflix, emphasizes the importance of talent density in a company. After observing increased productivity and motivation following layoffs, Netflix made talent density a core objective, aiming to build a "dream team" of extraordinary people. To maintain this, managers apply a "keeper test" to determine if they would fight to keep an employee who was leaving. - Link

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