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OpenAI is launching a new ChatGPT Pro plan with its most powerful model, which the company claims “will solve increasingly complex and critical problems.” This new plan will cost $200 a month, as it “takes significantly more compute to power these capabilities.” It’s a significant jump in price compared to its $20 a...
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A new startup is about to bring the boxing gym into your home. Called Growl, the project has already raised $4.75 million of seed funding from investors, including former UFC Heavyweight Champion Ciryl Gane. Growl is expected to be a wall-mounted device equipped with projectors beaming boxing games and even a...
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Google has dropped a private preview version of Veo, its latest generative AI video tool. Generated videos will be in high-definition, about a minute in length, and infused with digital watermarks. In tow, Google's Imagen 3 text-to-image generator has graduated from testing stages to being available for Google Cloud...
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After a couple of recent social media posts, which claimed Microsoft was training AI on user’s Word and Excel data sent users into a frenzy, Microsoft has responded. According to the software giant, it was all just a big misunderstanding, much like an incident with Adobe earlier this year.
One of the first claims...
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Companies that offer AI services to the public, like Anthropic and OpenAI, try to prevent out-of-pocket behavior from their AI models by establishing "guardrails" on them, hopefully preventing their AIs from doing things like asking their human users to "please die." These guardrails prevent the networks from engaging...
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Apple’s AI efforts are currently being propped up by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the company is making strides on a more capable version of Siri according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Internally, the project is currently being called “LLM Siri,” and it’s intended to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Live.
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When PC gaming saw a resurgence, NVIDIA made bank. Then when cryptocurrency mining on GPUs became a popular thing, NVIDIA made more bank. And now? NVIDIA is riding the next wave in tech, which is artificial intelligence, to its biggest earnings ever at $35.08 billion in revenue for yet another record quarter bolstered...
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Fears about AI rising up and annihilating humans are a bit premature at this point, but neural networks can still behave in some unpredictable and shocking ways at times. Case in point: Google's Gemini AI chatbot just unsubtly told a human to die—but at least it was polite enough to say "please" first.
Jokes aside...
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When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tools, companies are leaving no stone unturned. Even Notepad, the humble little text editor in Windows, is getting a generative AI upgrade. Same goes for Paint, and if you're a Windows Insider in the Canary or Dev channel, you can begin testing the nifty new features right...
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A few years ago, when you thought of NVIDIA, powerful GeForce RTX graphics cards were the first thing that popped into your mind. In 2024, that has drastically changed for some, with NVIDIA overtaking industry behemoths such as Apple for the title of world's most valuable company. While GPUs are still the core...
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Google has been the king of search for many years. However, competition is beginning to heat up, with Microsoft enticing people to use its Bing via a $1 million sweepstakes, and now OpenAI offering up its own AI-infused search engine, ChatGPT Search.
OpenAI announced its ChatGPT Search feature at the beginning of...
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Usually, it takes a human to uncover vulnerabilities in a computer system, but before long, the computers may be doing it alone. Google's Deep Mind and Project Zero divisions have teamed up to create a new kind of large language model (LLM) that can identify security flaws, and the model spotted its first critical...
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After being on the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 25 years, Intel is being replaced by tech rival NVIDIA. The news of Intel being removed from the Dow comes in the same week the tech bellwether reported a $16.6 billion dollar loss in the third quarter of 2024.
In a press release, the S&P Dow Jones Indices...
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Google’s Gemini AI continues to be integrated throughout the company’s portfolio of apps and services. This time around, the AI assistant is making its way to Waze, which is used for up-to-date traffic data based on the information provided by its users. There are two new features available, one of which is possible...
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Google Maps is getting a fresh set of AI features, powered by Google’s Gemini models, that aim to make using the service easier and more immersive for its 2 billion monthly users. The company says that it uses AI “to analyze billions of images, alongside data from local partners and our community,” which helps keep...
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Microsoft is once again delaying the release of Recall, its controversial AI feature. After an previous delay, Recall was supposed to be made available for testing with Windows Insiders last month, however the tech giant says it still needs more time to refine it.
As Microsoft kicked off the Copilot+ PC era earlier...
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OpenAI continues its relentless push forward as it its next model, codenamed Orion, appears on track for release before the end 2024 according to a new report out of The Verge. The company is reportedly planning to release Orion in December, with early access for close partners before it becomes more widely available to the public. However,
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Google DeepMind announced it has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text, and is making it available via open source. SynthID is a technology from Google DeepMind that watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or...
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With competitors such as Google evolving their AI models, Anthropic is adding a key feature to its Claude Sonnet model that allows it to interact with computers. The model is now capable of following instructions it’s provided with to “move a cursor around their computer’s screen, click on relevant locations, and...
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Qualcomm has just announced its latest intelligent automotive platforms, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite. The big news here is that both systems will be powered by the company's Oryon CPU architecture, which promises up to 3x faster CPU and 12x greater AI performance versus its predecessors...
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Apple is hyping the heck out if its upcoming Apple Intelligence features that are headed to compatible devices, including the recently-launched iPhone 16 lineup (see our iPhone 16 Pro review) and the previous generation iPhone 15 series, both of which have the requisite hardware to power Apple's "AI" features. While...
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Perplexity is confident that it can change the way research is conducted in financial markets, due in part to its latest AI-enhanced toolset. The company has added new features that it believes can make its AI services the go-to tool used by finance professionals. With the aim of helping these professionals make...
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