OpenAI’s chatbots will have permission to access News Corp’s content under a new agreement between the two that has been valued at as much as $250 million over five years.
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MICROSOFT UNVEILS MORE POWERFUL “COPILOT” AI
Microsoft may be the world’s most valuable publicly listed company but it’s taking nothing for granted in a new world defined by AI.
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META’S AI GURU SEEKS “SUPERINTELLIGENT” MACHINES
Today’s “large language model” (LLM) AIs will never rival humans’ ability to think, Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief AI scientist said in a Financial Times interview.
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CHINESE AI ARCHIVES “XI JINPING THOUGHT”
A new AI in China has become an archive for president Xi Jinping’s musings, known as “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.” The bot is also now the go-to source for the content of a variety of other official publications.
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SHINING A LIGHT INSIDE AI’S BLACK BOX
Artificial intelligence systems have been referred to as “black boxes” because, once they’re trained and put to work, no one knows exactly what an AI’s “thought process” is as it puts together a response to a request.
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AI CONSCIOUSNESS: SYNTHETIC DEVIL-LUTION?
To hear longtime legends of AI development like Ray Kurzweil, Ben Geortzel and Geoff Hinton tell it, we can’t know how the AI story will end.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
A lot of people suddenly woke up this past week to the meaning of that creeping AI “copilot” technology tech companies have been rolling out with little fanfare since early 2023.
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GOOGLE SEARCH “AI OVERVIEW” STEALING CLICKS AND FUELING FURTHER MONOPOLY: SEO EXPERT
Google Search is now featuring a full blown Google ad connected “AI Overview” in response to search queries.
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U.S. SENATORS: SPEND $32 BILLION A YEAR ON AI TO BEAT CHINA
Regulators and the AI industry need to protect Americans from the potential dangers of AI, but the country also needs to invest at least $32 billion annually to ensure that China doesn’t surpass the U.S. in advancing AI technology, according to a proposal by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators.
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DATA CENTERS’ POWER DEMAND SPIKES UTILITIES’ STOCK PRICES, GRID CONCERNS
Utility companies are starting to feel the pressure from AI data centers that gobble more and more electricity 24 hours every day of the week. Those centers are contacting utilities to make sure the extra power they’ll need in the future will be there.