Nvidia briefly joins trillion-dollar club
Nvidia Corp.’s market valuation fleetingly crossed the $1 trillion threshold on Tuesday after the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence prospects vaulted it into an elite club of just five American companies.
The stock rose as much as 7.7% early in the...
OpenAI will comply with EU's AI regulations
OpenAI Inc. chief executive officer Sam Altman — days after making comments that he might pull out of Europe if he didn’t feel he could meet the EU’s regulations — said he plans to comply with the bloc’s rules.
In discussions with EU regulators...
Nvidia's AI chip sales forecast sends shares surging
Nvidia Corp. results showing that customers are binging on chips used in artificial intelligence computing sent stocks tied to the burgeoning technology soaring globally.
Nvidia gained as much as 29% in late New York trading, while its rival...
AI suspected to be behind fake Pentagon explosion image that spooked US markets
A falsified photograph of an explosion near the Pentagon spread widely on social media Monday morning, briefly sending US stocks lower in possibly the first instance of an AI-generated image moving the market.
Just...
Microsoft CEO denies his company has control of OpenAI
Microsoft Corp. is not in control of OpenAI, chief executive officer Satya Nadella said in an interview aired Tuesday, disputing the allegation by Elon Musk.
Musk had claimed that Microsoft, by virtue of its multibillion-dollar investment...
US senator uses AI-generated speech and voice in hearing on AI risks
US Senator Richard Blumenthal opened a hearing on AI with a recording of his voice describing the risks of this emerging technology.
“Too often we have seen what happens when technology outpaces regulation,” he said.
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Amazon.com product search could get ChatGPT-style capabilities
Amazon.com Inc. plans to bring ChatGPT-style product search to its web store, rivalling efforts by Microsoft Corp. and Google to weave generative artificial intelligence into their search engines.
The e-commerce giant’s ambitions...
Microsoft freezes full-time worker salaries because it needs money for big AI push
Microsoft Corp. has decided to freeze pay for all full-time workers this year to help it navigate macroeconomic ructions, becoming the latest US tech leader to tighten its belt during a time of mounting...
Palantir's upcoming AI tool for militaries sends share price surging
Palantir Technologies Inc., the data analysis firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, is seeing “unprecedented” demand for an artificial intelligence platform, the first version of which will roll out to some customers this month...
Microsoft partners with AMD to develop AI chip
Microsoft Corp. is working with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the chipmaker’s expansion into artificial intelligence processors, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a multipronged strategy to secure more of the highly...
Movies and series written by AI are inevitable — Major TV execs
Executives from Paramount Global, Fox Corp. and other entertainment companies said it’s inevitable that films and TV shows will be written using artificial intelligence.
“This is going to change the world,” said Todd Lieberman, a...
Explosion of fake news generated by ChatGPT
The news-rating group NewsGuard has found dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots proliferating online, according to a reportpublished Monday, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.
The 49...
Samsung bans employees from using ChatGPT after leak
Samsung Electronics Co. is banning employee use of popular generative AI tools like ChatGPT after discovering staff uploaded sensitive code to the platform, dealing a setback to the spread of such technology in the workplace.
The Suwon...
ChatGPT gets new privacy feature
OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company’s models.
The move could be a privacy safeguard for people who sometimes share sensitive information with the popular AI chatbot...
ChatGPT and other AI tools will make spotting phishing attacks more difficult
Cisco Systems Inc. warned that artificial intelligence software such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT will make phishing attempts much harder to detect, requiring companies to adopt new defences.
About 80% of illicit access into...
Study shows impact of generative AI tools on workplace productivity
Customer service workers at a Fortune 500 software firm who were given access to generative artificial intelligence tools became 14% more productive on average than those who were not, with the least-skilled workers reaping the...
Google and Alphabet AI teams consolidated to better take on OpenAI's ChatGPT
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has consolidated its artificial intelligence research groups into one unit, the company’s latest move to keep from falling behind in the AI race.
The change folds the Brain team from Google...
Nato wants a deal with China military over "responsible" use of AI
Nato wants to strike a deal with China over rules outlining the responsible use of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies in the military domain, the alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday.
The North...
Venture firm warns ChatGPT and other AI tools could leak corporate secrets
Companies using generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT could be putting confidential customer information and trade secrets at risk, according to a report from Team8, an Israel-based venture firm.
The...
Elon Musk plans to build ChatGPT rival
Elon Musk wants to create a rival to artificial intelligence phenom ChatGPT.
In an interview with Tucker Carlson on Monday, Musk confirmed that he has plans to create a “third option” in the AI race between Microsoft Corp.-backed OpenAI and Alphabet...