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OpenAI employees consider selling $6bn stock

Authors sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement

Eleven nonfiction writers have filed a complaint in federal court in Manhattan, alleging that Microsoft...

20th December 2023

Alibaba new CEO prioritizes domestic e-commerce growth

Alibaba Group announced on Wednesday that its new chief executive will be in charge of...

20th December 2023

Google to restructure ads division

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, intends to restructure a sizable portion of its 30,000-person ad sales...

20th December 2023

Zambia to build natiowide digital hubs for free internet

The Zambian government has announced intentions to create Community Digital Transformation Centers to strengthen its...

19th December 2023

Apple resumes sale of smartwatches after court ruling

Apple halts sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 smartwatches over patent dispute

To resolve a patent issue regarding the technology underlying the blood oxygen feature on the...

19th December 2023

TomTom partners Microsoft to create AI-based assistant for vehicles

The leading provider of digital mapping, TomTom, announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up...

19th December 2023

SEC charges Tingo Group CEO Dozy Mmobuosi with fraud

The CEO of Tingo Group, Dozy Mmobuosi, will face charges from the Securities and Exchange...

18th December 2023

Elon Musk to remove displays of likes, reposts on X

EU probes Elon Musk’s X for ‘illegal content’

The EU on Monday announced “formal infringement proceedings” against Elon Musk’s X platform under a...

18th December 2023

Australia researchers build brain-mimicking super computer

Australian researchers are developing the first supercomputer in history, capable of simulating networks at the...

18th December 2023

Deloitte to deploy AI for staff management

Deloitte LLP turned to artificial intelligence to assess the abilities of current employees and create...

17th December 2023

Ontario cancels $100m Starlink contract in US-Canada tariff war

Zambian legislators to get starlink kits for constituencies

Every legislator in Zambia’s legislature will get a Starlink kit for their home district coming...

15th December 2023

A simple question posed on X (formerly Twitter) has sparked a curious debate about digital etiquette — and its potential cost. One user asked, “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman chimed in with a characteristically dry reply: “Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know.” While Altman’s response was clearly tongue-in-cheek, it opened up a broader conversation: does politeness to artificial intelligence come with a price tag? Technology site Futurism picked up the exchange, musing on whether pleasantries like “please” and “thank you” — often directed at ChatGPT and other AI tools — might be not only unnecessary but also wasteful in terms of time and computing power. But not everyone sees it as a pointless gesture. Kurt Beavers, a design director on the Microsoft Copilot team, suggested there’s more to digital politeness than meets the eye. According to Beavers, polite inputs from users can influence tone and outcomes. “Using polite language sets a tone for the response,” he said. “When an AI model clocks politeness, it’s more likely to be polite back.” In other words, AI might be mirroring more than just words — it could be taking cues from human manners, too. Still, while some users embrace courteous phrasing as part of interacting with AI in a more “human” way, others argue it’s just another habit formed in a world of voice assistants and automated replies — or perhaps even a subconscious hedge against a sci-fi-style future where machines remember how we treated them.

OpenAI reaffirms worldcoin’s commitment amid funding speculation

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has reaffirmed his goals for the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin...

15th December 2023

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