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TomTom partners Microsoft to create AI-based assistant for vehicles
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Italian Telco to build native language AI tools

An Italian telecom company, Fastweb, announced on Monday that it intends to assist its corporate and public administration clients in creating artificial intelligence tools by creating a large-language model trained in native Italian. “A group of generative AI experts will work through deep learning systems to develop an LLM based on large sets of data […]

Google launches AI-powered app NotebookLM
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Google launches AI-powered app NotebookLM

Google released the AI-powered app NotebookLM for users in the United States who are older than 18 during the I/O event in 2023. This application primarily uses Google’s internal AI systems, such as PaLM 2 and Gemini Pro. It’s not on a waiting list, but it is still experimental. This allows NotebookLM to assess and […]

X to offer paid users xAI chatbot - Musk
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X to offer paid users xAI chatbot – Musk

Elon Musk on Thursday said his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, is launching Grok, a competitor to ChatGPT, for social media platform X Premium+ users. Without providing any additional information about the launch, he made the announcement in a post on X. He had stated last month that subscribers would be able to use Grok as […]

Google signs $3bn US hydropower deal amid AI energy race
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Alphabet shares soar by 5% over Gemini AI launch

Wall Street on Thursday celebrated the debut of Gemini AI, which caused Alphabet to soar by about 5%. Long regarded as a pioneer in AI research, Alphabet lost prominence when OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was released in November of last year, swept the IT world and enabled Microsoft to aggressively introduce AI-powered software to commercial clients. […]

Google shifts ChatGTP rival Gemini AI till 2024
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Google shifts ChatGTP rival Gemini AI till 2024

Google has canceled its Gemini launch events that were set to take place next week and will instead introduce its GPT-4 rival in January, The Information reported. At I/O 2023, the company hinted at Gemini, praising it as a basic model with “impressive multimodal capabilities” at an early stage of its training. Google had originally […]

FG, private sector to launch AI fund in Nigeria
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FG, private sector to launch AI fund in Nigeria

The Federal Government of Nigeria is attempting to establish an Artificial Intelligence fund in order to boost the country’s technological capacity, and it is looking to the business sector for assistance. The Times reported that this was revealed by the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, at the Zenith Bank Tech Fair 2023 […]

Meta introduces message summaries to WhatsApp
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Meta add AI-powered bot to WhatsApp

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg has moved to add Meta AI to WhatsApp after an announcement in September to integrate AI-powered chatbot to the messaging platform. Discovered by WABetaInfo, a little button inside WhatsApp that enables users to instantly start the AI chat with a single push. The green “Start a New Chat” icon is positioned […]

Meta scraps fact-checking program, introduces X-like community notes feature
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Meta launches AI-editing tools

Meta has launched two new AI-powered video editing tools that can be used to modify videos for Facebook or Instagram posts. The first is called Emu Video, and it creates videos that last four seconds when given a caption, picture, or image and a description, while the other is Emu Edit which makes it easier […]

ChatGPT exposed minors to sexual content, OpenAI confirms
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OpenAI considers means to get ChatGPT into schools

OpenAI is currently exploring ways to introduce the popular ChatGPT chatbot into the educational system, a senior executive said. Brad Lightcap, the chief operating officer of OpenAI, announced at a San Francisco conference that the company is assembling a team to investigate educational uses of a technology that has sparked new laws, upended industries, and […]

Baidu CEO warns against rush to AI
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Baidu CEO warns against rush to AI

The CEO of Baidu, one of the top AI companies in China, issued a warning on Wednesday, stating that the country’s haste to create massive language models may result in resource waste. Speaking at a Shenzhen industry forum, Robin Li expressed concerns about a possible industry shakeout since businesses creating huge language models are still […]

Silicon Valley AI company launches AI lapel
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Silicon Valley company launches AI lapel

Silicon Valley startup with a board of heavyweight co-founders and executives, Humane, on Thursday released a $699 device that aims to bring cutting-edge AI nearer to you. The gadget dubbed the “Ai Pin,” is meant to be worn on clothing and may be tapped to speak with a virtual assistant that uses cloud computing capacity […]

Google launches AI-powered search in Nigeria, other countries
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Google launches AI-powered search in Nigeria, other countries

Google has rolled out its AI-powered search experience worldwide, after initial launches in select markets, including the U.S., India and Japan. Search Generative Experience is an AI-based conversational experience that went live on Wednesday and is now available globally in over 120 new countries and territories, including Nigeria, American Samoa, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, […]