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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, […]

Amazon cuts jobs in books division amid broader efficiency push
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Amazon spends millions to train AI model ‘Olympus’

Amazon is spending millions on training an ambitious large language model in the hopes of competing with elite models like OpenAI and Alphabet, Reuters reported. With two trillion parameters, the model, code-named “Olympus,” may rank among the largest models being trained. One of the greatest models currently available, OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, is said to have […]

Meta scraps fact-checking program, introduces X-like community notes feature
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Meta bans AI ads for regulated industries

Facebook’s parent company, Meta is preventing advertisers in other regulated industries and political campaigns from utilising its new generative AI advertising products. Meta made the decision publicly known on Monday night through modifications to its support centre. Although it does not have any limits directly on AI, its advertising standards forbid ads with content that […]

Musk’s X faces lawsuit for allegedly withholding staff bonuses
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Elon Musk to integrate xAI with X

Elon Musk announced in a post on Sunday that his artificial intelligence company, xAI, will launch as a stand-alone app in addition to being integrated into his social networking platform, X. The billionaire added that on Friday, xAI made its first AI model, a bot by the name of Grok, available to all X Premium+ […]

Elon Musk unveils AI startup
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Elon Musk unveils AI startup

The billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, announced on Friday that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, will present its first AI model to a small group on Saturday. This comes about a year after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which sparked a global upsurge in the application of generative AI technologies by capturing the interest of companies […]

White House leads TikTok acquisition deal
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Tech companies partner to combat AI-generated child abuse images

Tech companies TikTok, Snapchat, and Stability AI have committed to collaborating to combat artificial intelligence-generated images of child sex abuse. In the lead-up to a worldwide summit on AI safety that the UK is hosting this week, Britain unveiled the joint declaration on Monday at an event. The statement included the governments of the United […]

Google halts diversity hiring goals, reviews DEI programs
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Google plans new policy, targets AI apps

Google is going after potentially troublesome generative AI apps with a new policy that will go into effect early next year. The policy requires Android application developers who publish their work on the Play Store to include a way for users to report or flag inappropriate content created by AI. According to the new policy, […]

OpenAI mulls $500bn valuation in employee share sale talks
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Reduce overdependence on products, Japan tells AI companies

The Japanese government has tasked commissions, companies  and organisations using artificial intelligence will be forced to take steps to lessen the risk of over-dependence on the technology, according to proposed rules. The proposed guidelines also caution AI programmers against using skewed data for machine learning and advise them to keep track of their interactions with […]

OpenAI mulls $500bn valuation in employee share sale talks
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OpenAI plans updates to lure developers

OpenAI intends to provide significant improvements for developers next month to make it easier and quicker to create software applications based on its artificial intelligence models, according to Reuters. The changes include the developer tools’ ability to use memory storage for AI models. This presumably addresses a big problem for partners whose expenses of employing […]

ChatGPT’s AI image feature delayed for free users
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US space force bans AI tools usage

The U.S. Space Force has temporarily stopped using ChatGPT and other web-based generative AI tools for its personnel due to concerns about data security. Until they gain formal approval from the force’s Chief Technology and Innovation Office, workers are not permitted to use such AI technologies, particularly large-language models, on government systems, according to a […]