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Reçu — 1 octobre 2024 ⏭

California Governor vetos AI safety bill because it "establishes a regulatory framework that could give the public a false sense of security and applies stringent standards to even the most basic functions — so long as a large system deploys it&quo

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
1 octobre 2024 à 13:25
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed an AI safety bill (SB 1047), citing it “falls short of providing a flexible, comprehensive solution to curbing the potential catastrophic risks.”

President Joe Biden meets with AI experts and Gavin Newsom. (2023)

OpenAI's bankruptcy flames linger on as Apple wiggles out of its latest $6.5 billion funding round at the eleventh hour — leaving the mantle to Microsoft and NVIDIA

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
1 octobre 2024 à 12:37
Apple reportedly won't participate in OpenAI's latest round of funding. Its decision to withdraw from discussions to participate in OpenAI's round of funding remains slim at best.

Apple logo on a building

Reçu — 26 septembre 2024 ⏭

Microsoft doubles down in its AI and Cloud infrastructure with a $1.3 billion investment in Mexico

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
26 septembre 2024 à 10:55
Microsoft is investing $1.3 billion to strengthen its AI and Cloud advances in Mexico.

Microsoft invests $1.3 billion in AI and Cloud infrastructure in Mexico

ChatGPT's human-like Advanced Voice Mode feature can say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages — but the EU is reportedly turning a deaf ear to OpenAI's plea because it can detect user emotion

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
26 septembre 2024 à 06:00
OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode feature won't be available for users in the EU region because of the stringent EU AI Act, which prohibits the use of AI systems that can recognize a user's emotions.

ChatGPT's Voice Mode

Generative AI isn't pushing Microsoft Copilot+ PC sales — a dire need for future-proof upgrades coupled with Windows 10's imminent death is

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
26 septembre 2024 à 05:48
The claims International Data Corporation (IDC) claims the fast adoption of AI PCs, specifically Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs is driven by the sole need to buy new computers coupled with the desire to upgrade existing laptops, not the in-built sophisticated AI capabilities.

Copilot+ PC launch event with Satya Nadella

Reçu — 25 septembre 2024 ⏭

Sam Altman claims superintelligence might only be "a few thousand days" away from OpenAI's doorstep, but there are a lot of details to figure out

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
25 septembre 2024 à 04:56
In a new blog dubbed The Intelligence Age, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman indicates, "It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days (!); it may take longer, but I’m confident we’ll get there."

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023.

OpenAI's proposed logo refresh sparks controversy among staffers, calling it "devoid of creativity" — despite ChatGPT and DALL-E 3's touted "insanely powerful" logo creation capabilities

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
25 septembre 2024 à 04:37
OpenAI reportedly shared a new logo design at a recent company-wide meeting that sparked a cocktail of emotions among its employees, who blatantly referred to it as "uninspiring and ominous."

In this photo illustration OpenAI icon is displayed on a mobile phone screen in Ankara, Turkiye on August 13, 2024.

Microsoft unveils new Correction tool to address AI hallucinations but there are early concerns — "Trying to eliminate hallucinations from generative AI is like trying to eliminate hydrogen from water"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
25 septembre 2024 à 04:37
Microsoft recently unveiled several new artificial intelligence safety features to promote security, privacy, and reliability, including a new tool dubbed Correction.

The Microsoft Copilot app is being displayed on a smartphone, with the Microsoft logo visible in the background, in this photo illustration taken in Brussels, Belgium, on December 30, 2023.

Reçu — 24 septembre 2024 ⏭

A tech wizard brings ChatGPT's AI brilliance and internet access to the classic TI-84 graphing calculator — "I made the ultimate cheating device"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
24 septembre 2024 à 10:18
An avid tech YouTuber well-known as ChromaLock recently posted a video highlighting how he tinkered with a "dated" Texas Instruments TI-84 graphing calculator to connect to the internet and access OpenAI's ChatGPT.

TI-84 graphing calculator running ChatGPT

Reçu — 17 septembre 2024 ⏭

Bill Gates says he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm to rival OpenAI and Google: "Today, somebody could raise billions of dollars for a new AI company [that’s just] a few sketch ideas"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
17 septembre 2024 à 06:03
In a recent interview, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates indicated that he'd start Microsoft again as an AI-centric firm if he got another crack at the corporate world.

Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, delivers a keynote speech on the closing day of the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Microsoft cut Windows 7 support on Edge, but Mozilla says "enough" Firefox users are using it to extend support to March 2025: "Backporting security fixes is already getting increasingly painful due to the divergence"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
17 septembre 2024 à 04:20
Mozilla is extending Firefox 115's support on unsupported devices, including Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and macOS 10.12 to 10.14, and will continue pushing important updates until April 1, 2025. Firefox 115.21 will also continue receiving updates until March 4, 2025.

Mozilla Firefox on Windows

Reçu — 16 septembre 2024 ⏭

Microsoft leverages robotics and AI to disassemble and recycle defective hard disks to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
16 septembre 2024 à 16:04
Microsoft leverages robots by Dobot Robotics to disassemble defective hard disk drives and recycle valuable components to reach a 90% reuse and recycle rate by 2025.

Seagate IronWolf

Bill Gates' AI agent dream comes to pass at Microsoft's special Copilot event with Copilot agents

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
16 septembre 2024 à 11:00
Microsoft shipped Copilot agents in general availability "to automate and execute business processes, working with or for humans."

Microsoft Copilot logo

Reçu — 9 septembre 2024 ⏭

Google's lucrative ad business could be on the DOJ's chopping block for anti-competitive business practices: "No one is forced to use our advertising technologies, they use them because they're effective"

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9 septembre 2024 à 06:41
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), along with 17 states, has filed an antitrust case against Google, citing its dominance in digital advertising, which has left competitors with the shorter end of the stick.

Google logo is seen on a smartphone and United States Department of Justice (DOJ) logo on a pc screen.

Reçu — 6 septembre 2024 ⏭

Leaked employee discussions demonstrate Amazon Q's lack of feature parity and potential loss of clientele to Microsoft's Copilot AI:"Q is fit for demos and very tightly controlled simple use cases"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
6 septembre 2024 à 11:00
In leaked Slack messages, Amazon staffers discussed Q's performance since its rollout to general availability, indicating its lack of feature parity and incompatibility with other software compared to its competitors, like Microsoft Copilot.

Amazon logo

Former OpenAI co-founder raises $1 billion for safety-focused firm while the ChatGPT maker prioritizes shiny products and is on the cusp of bankruptcy

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
6 septembre 2024 à 04:10
Former OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever recently raised $1 billion through investors for his new AI firm, Safe Superintelligence Inc., to further its safety-focused advances.

Sam Altman (C), US entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and founder and CEO of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, and the company's co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever (R), speak together at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023.

Reçu — 3 septembre 2024 ⏭

Incase will unearth Microsoft-branded accessories from the Microsoft Graveyard in Q4 2024: "The products will be the same, but instead of saying Microsoft they’ll say Incase, designed by Microsoft"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
3 septembre 2024 à 05:05
Incase had initially indicated that the Incase Designed by Microsoft accessories would ship in Q2 of 2024 but has since pushed the launch to Q4

Microsoft Ergonomic Mouse

"Is this even legal?" A leaked pitch reveals marketing agency uses 'Active Listening' software to eavesdrop on calls and push curated Facebook and Google ads

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
2 septembre 2024 à 12:22
A marketing agency admitted it listens to user voice data using its “Active Listening” software via smartphone microphones and uses the data to channel the "right" Facebook and Google ads to target customers.

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Google rubbishes Amazon's AI guidelines: "We're flattered they're worried about us, but fiction doesn't become fact just because it's in talking points"

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Par : [email protected] (Kevin Okemwa)
2 septembre 2024 à 05:56
Amazon is reportedly using its internal sales guidelines to tout its vast experience in building custom silicon processors and AI chips as an advantage compared to its rivals in the lucrative space.

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