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OpenAI has announced it is adding more voice and image features to its ChatGPT chatbot. It will allow users to speak with the chatbot in a conversation and images can be uploaded for analysis.

Google reportedly is trying to launch its next-gen "Gemini" AI this fall. It will reportedly combine text prompts and image generation, trying to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft.

Facebook is developing AI chatbots that can take up different personas to simulate conversations with various individuals and celebrities, in an attempt to attract and retain users on its platforms.

OpenAI announced that it has added Browse with Bing feature to the ChatGPT app for iOS. The integration allows the generative AI chatbot to access fresh information beyond its knowledge cutoff date.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is working on a ChatGPT-style chatbot. As suggested by a company spokesperson, it is the first sign of the Chinese company stepping into the field of AI.

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.

AI chat apps utilizing ChatGPT technology are a growing industry led by European developers, with 23.6 million Google Play Store downloads since November 2022. Europeans are more open to it.

Ex-Google engineer fired from Google's Responsible AI team reveals OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Google Bard had gone sentient. This has caused months of delays in the product launch over safety concerns.

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.

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.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI has confirmed the development status of GPT-5. He also shared further insights about GPT development and approaches to bolster security during an event at MIT.

Alibaba Cloud is reaching out to businesses to see if they want to try out its generative AI bot. Corporate entities that are interested can check out Alibaba Cloud's WeChat for more details.

In addition to longer messages in Bing Chat, Microsoft's chatbot can pick up a conversation in the sidebar where you left the chat in the main window, and there are some performance improvements.

Microsoft is starting to place links to ads inside of Bing Chat conversations. It is working with its Microsoft Start partners to place ads both inside chats or rich captions beside chat answers.

General Motors is working on an AI system in collaboration with Microsoft. It will use similar technology that's used in ChatGPT and it'll be voice-activated for road safety reasons.

The new DuckAssist generative AI takes information from Wikipedia to help create its natural language answers. It's available now in DuckDuckGo's browser apps and its browser extensions.

Apple has reportedly blocked an update to Blix' BlueMail app due to an integration with ChatGPT. Apple wants a higher age rating or content filtering if BlueMail wants to add this functionality.

The opening of ChatGPT's APIs by its creators at OpenAI will allow any developer to use its chatbot AI in its apps and products, and could help fund OpenAI's future software developments.

Meta head Mark Zuckerberg says the company is combining many of its AI teams into one larger team to develop and launch generative AI products for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more.

Snapchat+ subscribers can now access the experimental My AI chatbot, which will help users with planning events, finding information, or just entertaining them with poems or other content.

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Microsoft has expanded the number of daily chat turns and sessions for the new Bing chatbot to 60 turns a day and six turns per session. Major improvements for Bing are promised for Thursday.

Microsoft has shared some statistics regarding the response and feedback related to its new AI-powered Bing experience, currently in preview. It has also detailed what's next for the chatbot.

Tesla founder and Twitter CEO Elon Musk said this week that while AI programs like ChatGPT and others have a lot of promise, they can also come with "great danger" and they need to be regulated.

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi has shared that demand for the new Bing experience is in "multiple millions." And amid high demands, he has also shared some tips to quickly let you through the waitlist.

Now that the first invites to try out Microsoft's new Bing chatbot have been sent out, it looks like some users are asking questions that generate some rather odd and even mean responses.

After announcing the new chatbot-AI based Bing search engine last week, Microsoft has begun to send invites to people on its waiting list to try out the full version of the new Bing.

Many Google employees reportedly posted on the internal forum Memegen that they felt the launch of the Bard AI chatbot earlier this week was "rushed" and ultimately "botched" by the company.

The signup milestone shows that there's been a ton of interest in the new Bing search engine with its chat AI features that were first developed by OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT.

The full press presentation of Microsoft's new Bing and Edge reveal is now online to watch on YouTube, allowing everyone to see the new OpenAI-powered chatbot technology that's slowly being rolled out

The same report says that Microsoft will allow those same third party companies to replace Microsoft and OpenAI's branding with their own when they release the chatbots made with Microsoft's tools.

It's no secret that Google is panicking about the swift rise of ChatGPT. The company seems to be preparing to fight back by developing its own language processing tool and testing various homepages.

OpenAI is looking into monetizing ChatGPT, its popular AI-powered chatbot that can write code, poems, and email. Those interested in providing feedback can sign up using a waitlist form.

Meta has launched BlenderBot 3, a new conversational AI. A web demo featuring the chatbot is accessible in the U.S. It said data that it collects will be shared with the scientific community.

Microsoft has announced that it is open-sourcing its latest GODEL conversational AI, which enables goal-oriented interactions while still providing external information, just like a real conversation.

Uber has launched a chatbot for WhatsApp for ordering taxis in India. It will be rolled out in Lucknow initially before coming to New Delhi. Next year, it will arrive in the entire country.

Facebook has finalized an agreement to acquire Kustomer, a New York-based startup that provides customer-service platforms and chatbots. The firm's entire team will join Facebook as part of the deal.