artificial intelligence (ai)

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    Amazon.com adds Rufus AI assistant for online shopping

    Amazon.com adds Rufus AI assistant for online shopping Amazon.com Inc. is adding an artificial intelligence shopping companion to its retail store in an effort to help shoppers comparison shop and seek answers to queries more complicated than a keyword search. Called Rufus, the shopping...
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    OpenAI's early tests show GPT-4 has only "slight" chance of helping create bioweapons

    OpenAI's early tests show GPT-4 has only "slight" chance of helping create bioweapons OpenAI’s most powerful artificial intelligence software, GPT-4, poses “at most” a slight risk of helping people create biological threats, according to early tests the company carried out to better understand...
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    Taylor Swift queries re-enabled on X after surge in explicit deepfakes

    Taylor Swift queries re-enabled on X after surge in explicit deepfakes Elon Musk’s X has reactivated the ability to search its social network for musician Taylor Swift, after disabling queries for her name in response to a flood of explicit deepfake images. “Search has been re-enabled and we...
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    BYD executive warns Musk over Tesla's AI focus

    BYD executive warns Musk over Tesla's AI focus A senior executive at BYD Co. stoked the Chinese automaker’s rivalry with Tesla Inc., warning Elon Musk that he’ll face challenges in intelligent driving systems. BYD is “very strong now,” Zhao Changjiang, the head of sales for the firm’s Denza...
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    xAI has secured $500 million in funding so far — Report

    xAI has secured $500 million in funding so far — Report Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured $500 million in commitments from investors toward a $1 billion goal, according to people with knowledge of the talks. The company is discussing a valuation of $15 billion to...
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    Elon wants more control over Tesla

    Elon wants more control over Tesla Elon Musk leaned on Tesla Inc.’s board to arrange another massive stock award for him years after he sold a significant chunk of his shares in the company to acquire Twitter. In one of several posts on the topic, Musk wrote that unless he has roughly 25%...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to all users

    Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to all users Microsoft Corp. is opening up its artificial intelligence assistant to consumers and making the corporate version available to smaller companies as it tries to increase the number of paying customers for the new services. Microsoft is selling a...
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    Get your custom GPTs on OpenAI's store now

    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...
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    OpenAI discussing content licencing with CNN, Fox, and Time

    OpenAI discussing content licencing with CNN, Fox, and Time OpenAI is in talks with CNN, Fox Corp. and Time to license their work, according to people familiar with the matter, in a growing effort to secure access to news content to build out its artificial intelligence products while facing...
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    Nvidia launching RTX 40 series Super cards — and they're all about AI

    Nvidia launching RTX 40 series Super cards — and they're all about AI Nvidia Corp., whose chip technology dominates in data centers used to create artificial intelligence software, announced new products to help the personal computer industry lure consumers with “AI PCs.” Nvidia unveiled three...
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    Here's what's coming from AI in 2024

    Here's what's coming from AI in 2024 We’ve assembled a panel of AI scholars to look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, and to give their hopes and recommendations. [The Conversation]
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    OpenAI's GPT store launching next week

    OpenAI's GPT store launching next week OpenAI is planning to launch an online store next week that will let people share custom versions of the company’s popular ChatGPT chatbot after previously delaying the effort, according to an email sent to some users on Thursday. San Francisco-based...
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    Midjourney keeps list of artists it deliberately copies

    Midjourney keeps list of artists it deliberately copies AI image generator Midjourney has been singled out in a class action lawsuit for maintaining a list of artists whose styles it was specifically trained to copy. The lawsuit was originally brought by artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly Mckernan...
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    What R1,000 in biggest tech shares bought at start of 2023 would be worth now

    What R1,000 in biggest tech shares bought at start of 2023 would be worth now This year has been great for tech stock investors, with the share prices of companies like Nvidia, Meta Platforms, Tesla, and AMD all increasing by more than 100% between 3 January and 26 December 2023. MyBroadband...
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    Snapchat+ has amassed 7 million users

    Snapchat+ has amassed 7 million users Snap Inc. said it now has 7 million subscribers for its Snapchat+ offering, which gives users early or exclusive access to features on its social media app, including artificial intelligence tools. That’s up from 5 million users in September for the...
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    McDonald's workers getting Google-powered AI chatbot for assistance with daily tasks

    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...
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    AMD launches MI300 AI chip to take on Nvidia's dominance

    AMD launches MI300 AI chip to take on Nvidia's dominance Advanced Micro Devices Inc., taking aim at a burgeoning market dominated by Nvidia Corp., unveiled new so-called accelerator chips that it said will be able to run artificial intelligence software faster than rival products. The company...
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    Nvidia says Huawei and Intel are formidable AI chip rivals

    Nvidia says Huawei and Intel are formidable AI chip rivals Huawei Technologies Co. is among a field of “very formidable” competitors to Nvidia Corp. in the race to produce the best AI chips, according to the American company’s chief. Huawei, Intel Corp. and an expanding group of semiconductor...
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    xAI wants to raise $1 billion

    xAI wants to raise $1 billion Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is seeking to raise $1 billion (R18.95 billion) in funding from equity investors, according to a new filing. Musk has already raised nearly $135 million (R2.56 billion), according to a document filed Tuesday with the...
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    Amazon launching Titan Image Generator

    Amazon launching Titan Image Generator Amazon.com Inc., playing catch-up in the hotly contested market for generative artificial intelligence, has developed a tool to help businesses create images. This week, Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud services arm, has been rolling out a range...
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