Microsoft is trying to show it is taking the use of AI services and their effects seriously by publishing its first annual AI transparency report, with info on its own employee practices.
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Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business are now generally available. They're generative-AI solutions which aim to help developers with coding and businesses work with company data more efficiently.
Microsoft will invest $1.7 billion to develop Indonesia's AI infrastructure by building new cloud computing data centers. CEO Satya Nadella said it would be their largest investment in the country.
OpenAI and FT have entered into a strategic partnership that'll see FT content included where relevant in ChatGPT answers. This could help ChatGPT get up to date information which it doesn't yet have.
Nvidia has announced its decision to acquire Run:ai, a company which offers a GPU orchestration platform for managing AI workloads across cloud, edge, and on-premises data centre infrastructure.
New strings of code in the latest version of Google Maps suggest that the generative AI feature could soon be heading toward Labs, meaning the feature will no longer be exclusive to just Local Guides.
Microsoft has introduced an upgraded lineup of small AI models, Phi-3. The family includes Phi-3 Mini with 3.8 billion parameters, Phi-3 Small with 7 billion, and Phi-3 Medium with 14 billion.
If you recently purchased a new Windows PC and are now wondering whether it is "AI-Enabled" or not, Dell has the answer. The company explained how to identify "AI-Enabled" Windows PCs.
Apple has reportedly acquired France-based AI startup Datakalab, specializing in AI and computer vision technology. It is expected to help Apple bolster the AI features it is readying for iOS 18.
A fresh leak shows that the Google Gemini app will soon let you read responses as they are generated rather than wait for the entire response to be generated first, in line with the web version.
Google Gemini has some limitations, one of which is the inability to identify songs or work with third-party music apps. But as per a new tip, Gemini could soon let you choose your music service.
A new AI model by Microsoft Research Asia, VASA-1, can create incredibly realistic deepfakes based only on a single photograph and one voice sample. The model easily beats anything available today.
Snapchat is adding a custom ghost icon to images created in the app using its generative AI tools to help maintain transparency. The watermark is visible on images saved to your gallery or exported.
Meta's Oversight Board investigates whether Facebook and Instagram uphold consistent standards of content moderation across the world when users share explicit AI images of female public figures.
The United Kingdom government has begun to draft a set of regulations that aim to govern the most powerful language models such as those behind OpenAI's ChatGPT which aims to limit potential harm.
Reports suggest that Apple's first set of AI features, arriving with the soon-to-launch iOS 18 at WWDC 2024 on June 10, will run natively on your iPhone and won't require cloud servers.
Gertner says that it expects 75% of enterprise software engineers to begin using AI code assitants by 2028. This figure compares to just 10% of software engineers who were using them in early 2023.
Leo is now integrated into Brave Talk for Premium subscribers. The AI can now take call transcripts and make notes helping you to catch up with and summarise meetings, make task lists, and more.
PowerToys is next in line to receive AI treatment. A session scheduled at the upcoming Build 2024 conference revealed a new AI-powered feature coming to PowerToys on Windows 11 soon.
Microsoft is introducing a unified Copilot experience in Visual Studio 17.10 that will combine the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one package. This version of Visual Studio is out in May.
Google has launched Gemini for Android Studio, a code assistant AI powered by Gemini 1.0 Pro. The company said the feature is free to use but it's language suggests it'll become paid in the future.
Following the creation of a dedicated AI division, Microsoft announced a new AI Hub in London to advance language models (LLMs) and the supporting infrastructure and collaborate with AI partners.
Spotify has now launched a new feature that lets users generate custom AI playlists using written text prompts. The feature is currently available in beta for both Android and iOS users.
After AI companies hit the wall to gather high-quality data to train their AI models, companies like OpenAI are alleged to have transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4.
Meta announced today that it would begin labeling content it identifies as made by AI-based tools on its Instagram, Threads, and Facebook social media networks in May, along with more fact-checking.
A new survey shows that 41% of senior executives at global companies believe there will be a reduction in workforce sizes as they adopt generative AI, contradicting the narrative of AI as a helper.
Google is looking at charging for some new "premium" features powered by artificial intelligence, such as an AI-powered search engine which would keep the existing search free of charge.
Opera will allow users using Opera One to run LLMs locally on their computers. The browser supports more than 150 models from 50 families including LLMs from Meta, Google, and more.
Google DeepMind and Stanford University found a way how to mitigate the hallucinations and accuracy problems of artificial intelligence-based chatbots. The system that fact-checks AI is using… AI.
OpenAI's new powerful model can create a realistic clone of your voice based on just 15 seconds of your speech. However, the company hesitates to release the tool amid concerns about its misuse.
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service has launched a public preview of a new feature that offers businesses real-time detection and mitigation of abusive generative AI requests from end users.
Amazon has increased its funding for Anthropic to $4 billion. As part of this invesment, Amazon has a minority stake in Anthropic and Anthropic is using Amazon's cloud infrastructure.
After planning to bake Google's Gemini features on the iPhone, Apple is also in talks with China's Baidu to bring similar features to iPhones in China amid stringent AI compliance requirements.
The analyst company Canalys is predicting that AI-capable PCs will make up 40% of PC shipments in 2025. It said these PCs will also be about 10-15% more expensive than other computers.
Apple is reportedly in talks to build Google's Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone. Both companies are in negotiations to let Apple license Gemini to power some new iPhone features.
Anthropic has released Claude 3 Haiku via its API, on claude.ai, on Amazon Bedrock, and soon on Google Cloud Vertex AI. Haiku is the fastest Claude 3 model, outperforms Gemini 1.0 Pro, and costs less.
Google's DeepMind research group unveiled a new AI program that is capable of learning how to complete tasks in a number of games. It can follow natural-language instructions to carry out tasks.
The developers of the Opera One desktop browser have launched the AI Feature Drops program for insiders willing to try new ideas and provide valuable feedback for experimental features.
Inflection AI has released a new LLM, Inflection-2.5. This new model brings big coding and mathematics improvements to an AI that started out focusing on being empathetic, which it still is.
Microsoft's GitHub has released GitHub Copilot Chat for JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA. It's available for everyone to use now following a private beta but requires a subscription.