Amazon splurging another R52 billion on AI startup Anthropic
Amazon.com Inc. says it’s investing an additional $2.75 billion (R52.01 billion) in Anthropic, completing a deal it made last year to back the artificial intelligence startup and expand a partnership between the companies.
The...
Microsoft probing Copilot's disturbing responses
Microsoft Corp. said it’s investigating reports that its Copilot chatbot is generating responses that users have called bizarre, disturbing and, in some cases, harmful.
Introduced last year as a way to weave artificial intelligence into a range...
Get your custom GPTs on OpenAI's store now
OpenAI has launched an online store where people can share customised versions of the company’s popular ChatGPT chatbot, after initially delaying the rollout because of leadership upheaval last year.
The new store, which rolled out Wednesday to paid...
McDonald's workers getting Google-powered AI chatbot for assistance with daily tasks
McDonald’s Corp. is turning to Alphabet Inc.’s Google to build out a chatbot that will help its army of restaurant workers get quick answers on questions like how to clean an ice cream machine.
Called “Ask...
Baidu says Ernie chatbot is on par with ChatGPT
Baidu Inc.’s founder Robin Li declared his company’s large language model has finally caught up with OpenAI’s advanced GPT-4, claiming the lead in his country’s race to develop AI that can rival the US.
The billionaire took the stage in Beijing...
ChatGPT Enterprise launched
OpenAI launched a corporate version of ChatGPT with added features and privacy safeguards, the startup’s most significant effort yet to attract a broad mix of business customers and boost revenue from its best-known product.
As with consumer versions of the...
Uber adding AI chatbot to app
Uber Technologies Inc. is developing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot to integrate into its app, joining the long list of companies that are turning to the language tool to improve customer service, marketing and other automated tasks.
“We’re working on...