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The UK government will hold the first global summit on AI safety this autumn. It will invite countries, tech companies, and researchers to discuss safety measures against potential AI risks.

Microsoft is now offering Azure Government customers secure access to generative AI APIs. This lets governments leverage GPT-4 and GPT-3 in a way that meets stringent security requirements.

A new leak suggests Instagram is actively working on a new AI chatbot for its social media app. The bot is designed to answer questions, offer advice to users, and offer help writing messages.

With budgets squeezed, some businesses seem to be delegating tasks to services like ChatGPT. While there's no mass unemployment just yet, it looks like ChatGPT is replacing some workers.

OpenAI has announced a new grant to fund projects focusing on AI-based cybersecurity solutions and tools. It will be offered in increments of $10,000 from a $1M fund as API credits and direct funds.

Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

Mozilla has announced the top three winners of its responsible AI challenge that commenced earlier this year. The first prize is bagged by Sanative AI which has received a cash prize of $50,000.

OpenAI is currently researching process supervision, a method for reducing the number of hallucinations produced by LLMs. It has had success with maths datasets but needs to be tested generally.

The Brave Search API is now live. The service is free for companies and developers for limited use but also offers several paid tiers for those who have more demanding requirements.

MediaTek and NVIDIA have partnered up to develop new systems-on-chips for vehicles that will deliver AI and other infotainment features for all types of cars from entry-level to luxury.

From leveraging AI in its productivity suite to exploring the possibilities of techno-humanism, Microsoft continues venturing into the AI era as it embraces its power in its products and services.

A lawyer's reliance on ChatGPT for legal research led to the submission of false information. Discussions have emerged in the legal community regarding the responsible use of AI tools.

Google Search users in the US are able to access Search Labs features from today. The main addition is the Search Generative Experience which adds generative AI directly to your Google Searches.

Apple has told its employees to stop using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot because it's worried about confidential data leaking out to other companies that could abuse it.

Amazon is looking to bake generative AI into its online store. Instead of searching manually for products, you'll just tell the company what you want and it will pick out products for you.

Google Bard now has a Dark theme that can be toggled in the lower left of the chatbot's interface. It's not clear if automatic theme switching is supported but switching to Dark mode takes one tap.

Microsoft and Builder.ai have formed a strategic partnership that will see their services more tightly integrated. Builder.ai also disclosed that it has received an equity investment from Microsoft.

Google Chrome's recent integration of WebGPU is set to add more security for generative AI users as more tasks can be done locally. Google is planning a Stable Diffusion WebGPU demo at Google I/O.

Meta has announced its new open-source AI model called ImageBind. It's a multimodal system that can interoperate across six different data modes such as text, image, video, 3D, thermal, and motion.

Microsoft could issue Bing Chat model updates three times a year to improve its capabilities, Mikhail Parakhin has revealed. Nothing is set in stone and it is really just the best guess at this point.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a private version of ChatGPT that will run on dedicated Azure servers intended to keep data from customers safe, secure, and isolated from others.

Box is partnering up with OpenAI to bring generative AI capabilities into its products. Users can ask Box AI to summarize or answer questions about their documents or other data over the cloud.

A new report from McAfee highlights the dangers of AI-generated voice fakes that are being used by malicious actors to scam money out of people. People are encouraged to use codewords with contacts.

A new DeepMind research describes how deep reinforcement learning can help robots train for soccer skills like scoring goals, anticipating ball movements, and getting up after falling on the ground.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that the company is no longer planning to hire jobs that can be automated using artificial intelligence tools, impacting around 7,800 jobs.

A new iOS app named Call Annie allows real-time video conversations with a ChatGPT-powered AI. The app's animated avatar can answer various questions and offers an audio-only mode for older devices.

The space strategy game Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition is now available from Stardock, and it allows for AI-created civilizations, artwork, and quests using OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI.

The personalized news app Artifact now features an AI-powered summarize tool that creates a tl;dr version of news stories. The tool can also summarize news stories as poems or in emoji language.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents companies like Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, and Oracle, is urging Congress to establish guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence.

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge against the USPTO by a computer scientist. The latter claims that their patent should attribute their AI system as the inventor.

It might take a lot of money to run the popular AI bot ChatGPT. A firm estimates that the number could be as high as $700,000 per day, most of which goes into hardware infrastructure used to run it.

Although some European countries are rushing to ban ChatGPT and related technologies, Ireland is taking a more measured approach where it wants to fully understand the benefits and risks of AI.

Amazon's Prime Video has added an awesome new feature called Dialogue Boost. It uses AI to boost dialogue where it would otherwise be difficult to hear over background effects and music.

GPTZero and Peerceptiv have partnered up to give professors of post-secondary students the tools they need to identify where artificial intelligence has been used to write a person's essay.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told 60 Minutes in a recent interview that he predicts that there will be global treaties in the future to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and to limit misuse.

Elon Musk is attempting to develop his own generative AI product, according to insiders. He has scooped up NVIDIA GPUs to power the work and has been poaching engineers from other companies.

Microsoft has unveiled improvements to its Bing integration with multiple apps and services including Microsoft Start, SwiftKey, and Skype. The company is on a mission to bring Bing everywhere.