Leaked internal messages detail efforts by the Chinese tech giant to court Greek officials and fight an American-led effort against its technology.
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A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an A.I. Device
OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the former Apple designer Jony Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are teaming up to develop a device that could replace the smartphone.
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IBM Tries to Ease Customers’ Qualms About Using Generative A.I.
The company will assume the legal risk of businesses that use its A.I. systems and will publish the technology’s underlying data.
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A new Chrome 0-day is sending the Internet into a new chapter of Groundhog Day
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A critical zero-day vulnerability Google reported on Wednesday in its Chrome browser is opening the Internet to a new chapter of Groundhog Day. Like a critical zero-day Google disclosed on September 11, the new exploited vulnerability doesn’t affect just Chrome. Already, Mozilla has said that its Firefox browser is vulnerable to...
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Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps
Enlarge / Meta’s AI characters feature Snoop Dogg playing a dungeon master that dispenses gaming advice. (credit: Meta) On Wednesday, Meta announced its consumer-friendly entry into the crowded AI chatbot landscape, The Verge reports. During a presentation at Meta Connect 2023, the company said it is launching its own “Meta AI” chat assistant and a...
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AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Effective compression is about finding patterns to make data smaller without losing information. When an algorithm or model can accurately guess the next piece of data in a sequence, it shows it’s good at spotting these patterns. This links the idea of making good guesses—which is what large language models like...
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Meet the A.I. Jane Austen: Meta Weaves A.I. Throughout Its Apps
Meta introduced artificially intelligent characters based on Jane Austen, Snoop Dogg and others into Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, as the race to lead the technology heats up.
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To Bring Socializing Back to Social Networks, Apps Try A.I. Imagery
Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and several newcomers are betting on artificial intelligence to rejuvenate the fun, interactivity and whimsy of creating and sharing images.
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With Meta’s Quest 3, Mixed Reality Is Here. So Now What?
The new $500 headset lets people see the outside world while immersed in virtual reality. The benefits are to be determined.
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The New ChatGPT Can ‘See’ and ‘Talk.’ Here’s What It’s Like.
The image-recognition feature could have many uses, and the voice feature is even more intriguing.