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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.

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.

The analyst firm IDC has said that GenAI smartphones and AI PCs will capture 22% of the market share in their respective markets by the end of 2024. This will boost the capabilities of devices.

Google has introduced a new image-generation model called the ImageFX, powered by Imagen 2, which helps generate high-quality images using prompts. It also shared improvements to other AI tools.

ByteDance's CEO has admitted that the company fell behind when it comes to generative AI. Liang Rubo said that the company has been growing recently and that this made it more bureaucratic.

Generative AI will be creating most unit tests of software projects in just four years, according to the analyst firm IDC. This could lead to the creation of better tests and consequently better apps.

Google Bard is being opened up to teenagers in most countries. In most jurisdictions this means kids 13+ can use Bard but some countries will have higher minimum ages. It opens up this week.

Microsoft has announced that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision is coming to Azure OpenAI Service and Azure AI Studio. It has also renamed the Copilot Copyright Commitment for Azure OpenAI Service customers.

Elon Musk has said that xAI will be launching its chatbot to a limited number of users on Saturday. Musk didn't give details but claimed the chatbot excels in some areas compared to the competition.

World powers have come together at Bletchley Park in the UK to sign the Bletchley Declaration which says that countries should cooperate to reduce any risks posed by artificial intelligence.

LinkedIn has launched a new chatbot that aims to be a job seeker coach for users. LinkedIn is using GPT-4 as the base for the bot but has made improvements to latency so it responds quickly.

Which? has warned that it's relatively easy to get ChatGPT and Bard to craft text for scam emails and text messages. Its warning comes just days before the UK is set to host a summit on AI safety.

NVIDIA and Foxconn have decided to work together to accelerate the AI industrial revolution, the companies said. Foxconn will use NVIDIA's hardware to develop a wide range of products for consumers.

Enterprise generative AI spending will experience blistering compound annual growth of 73% between now and 2027, according to IDC. Spending in 2027 will reach $143 billion up from $16 billion in 2023.