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.
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Microsoft and Google, in collaboration with Thorn and All Tech Is Human, have announced new child safety commitments for generative AI features in their various AI software products.
OpenAI has hired its first employee in India, a government relations head, to push for favorable rules and regulations circling AI in anticipation of massive growth opportunities within the country.
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.
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.
xAI launched Grok-1.5V, a new multimodal AI that can understand text, images, diagrams, and more. xAI claims Grok-1.5V outperforms competitors on key benchmarks such as RealWorldQA.
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.
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 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.
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.
Microsoft and Nvidia have expanded their collaboration to improve their generative AI offerings for enterprises including healthcare and life science organizations. The announcement was made at GTC.
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.
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.
Research done on generative AI tools like Midjourney revealed widespread disinformation about U.S. elections. It argued that these platforms are failing to implement policies on misinformation.
Cohere and Accenture have formed a partnership to help businesses deploy generative AI tools. Cohere said that businesses are done experimenting and want to scale up the technology.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has told shareholders that it will release generative AI services later in the year. One of its shareholders, though, was concerned about the ethical implications.
A new report claims Apple will wind down its long-in-development plans to build and release an electric car. Some of the 2,000 team members involved in the project will be moved to generative AI.
Salesforce has announced the public beta of Einstein Copilot. It can currently be used in Salesforce's Sales Cloud and Service Cloud in English for customers in the United States.
Perplexity has teamed up with SK Telecom to give the latter's customers free access to the $20 per month Pro service. SK Telecom will also use Perplexity's online LLMs to develop its own products.
Canalys has forecasted that global cloud spending will increase by 20% this year to around $348 billion. The growth is largely going to be driven by investments into generative AI.
Google's Gemini has faced backlash for demonstrating racial bias in the images it generates of people. Google acknowledged that AI had shortcomings in balanced, inclusive representation.
OpenAI has announced Sora which is a new text-to-video model, set to revolutionise content creation. The company showcased the model's capabilities with a host of videos generated using prompts.
Google has opened up Gemini 1.5 Pro for testing. To gain access, users need to fill in a form on Google AI Studio and sit on a waitlist until granted access. It performs much better than Gemini 1.0.
Slack began testing its AI companion last year as a feature that would provide users with summaries of channel conversations. It has finally made the service available with several new additions.
Microsoft and OpenAI are teaming up once again to publish new research that shows more state-supported hackers are using generative AI services like ChatGPT for new kinds of attacks.
Major AI creators, academics, government officials, and researchers have formed a consortium to address the risks of deploying AI. Tech giants like Apple and Microsoft have also joined the movement.
Meta will now label photos on its platforms as "Imagined with AI" when they are fully generated by AI tools. It aims to clearly identify photorealistic media as AI-generated rather than authentic.
Microsoft has announced new partnerships with several news media companies and organizations that will give them access to generative AI technology to assist journalists in their research and more.
OpenAI has released a new ChatGPT app for Apple's Vision Pro headset that launched this week. The generative AI chatbot app is now available to download on the visionOS App Store, OpenAI announced.
Google has announced it has started testing a generative AI feature for a few users of its Maps app, which will allow them to type in a text prompt to find things to do and places to go.
Amazon has launched its AI assistant, Rufus, to help customers navigate the online shopping process. It has been trained on Amazon's product data to answer questions, make recommendations, and more.
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.
Chinese regulators have approved over 40 AI models for public use. The process started around six months back, and the first batch of AI models got the green signal in August 2023.
