Items tagged with artificial-intelligence
OpenAI has been in the headlines as the company has been introducing several new products alongside a new pricing tier, but now Google is trying to make some noise of its own. The company’s newest model, which is referred to as Gemini-Exp-1206, is based on Flash 2.0, which is a complex reasoning model meant to tackle...
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OpenAI has yet another new announcement as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event. For Day 10, the company is debuting the ability for users to simply call or text ChatGPT, using 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478). This is part of the company’s effort to make its products as accessible as possible for as many people as...
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT search earlier this year, which enables ChatGPT to provide users answers based on up-to-date information available on the internet. When this new feature initially launched, it was only available to users who were on one of the subscriptions plans. However, the company is now making it...
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The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been less than stellar, with many of the features Apple promised not becoming available until well after the release of iOS 18. Now that some of these features are finally trickling out to users, the performance of Apple Intelligence is under fire. With the summary notification...
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Companies like OpenAI continue to push the boundaries with large language (LLM) models in its pursuit of the holy grail of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Meanwhile, Microsoft is taking a different track by continually improving its more efficient small language models (SLM). The company’s newest SML, Phi-4, is...
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Reddit is rolling out the test phase for Reddit Answers, which the company is billing as “a new way to get the information, recommendations, discussions, and hot takes people are looking for – on any topic – from real conversations and communities across all of Reddit.” This new initiative is “in line with our mission...
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OpenAI continues to roll out new products and pricing tiers as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, with the company releasing Sora, its video generation model, to general users. Prior to this release, Sora was available to a limited number of users as part of a research preview. The company says that this new model...
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Itch.io, a popular platform used by independent game developers to distribute their games, was temporarily taken offline. It was apparently a victim of an overzealous phishing report made by Brand Shield on behalf of Funko. Unfortunately, it seems the registrar being used by the company failed to prevent this...
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Microsoft has struggled to come up with uses for all the fancy AI acceleration hardware in today's laptops. Even machines with Copilot+ branding have offered little in the way of AI extras, but that's slowly changing. After releasing the AI-powered Recall feature on Snapdragon Windows laptops in November, you can now...
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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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Anyone with an Android phone in their pocket is in for a big day—doubly so if that phone is a Pixel. Google has announced a few raft of features, some of which are coming to Android phones generally. Google's Pixel lineup, however, gets a huge number of new capabilities in the latest Feature Drop. But even if you're...
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During an interview with the BBC, co-CEO of PlayStation Herman Hulst was asked about the role of AI in game development. It’s an important question as AI continues to occupy an increasing role in business operations, and the gaming industry is facing a brutal year with thousands of layoffs and studio closures. The...
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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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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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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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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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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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Google is making its NotebookLM tool, which is powered by Gemini AI 1.5, an even more powerful tool for understanding information as the company removes its “experimental” label. Along with being considered a full-fledged product ready to be used by a wider audience, NotebookLM is also getting upgraded with some...
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OpenAI is finally releasing a ChatGPT app for Windows, after making it available on macOS earlier this year. The company posted an announcement on the social media platform X, where it says that it’s now available to download from the Microsoft store for “ChatGPT Plus, Enterprise, Team, and Edu users.” Free users will...
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Microsoft got in on the ground floor of the current AI hype, releasing the first Copilot PC features in 2023. Its decision to roll out Copilot while the technology is still developing has led to a lot of changes, and the latest update is the biggest yet. In fact, Microsoft claims its new Copilot is more...
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During a recent interview with the New York Times, legendary ex-Apple designer Jony Ive confirmed that his company, LoveFrom, is spearheading the design of a mobile device in collaboration with OpenAI. The goal is to create a device that “is less socially disruptive than the iPhone,” with the use of AI.
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Electronic Arts is making big claims about how it leverages AI for its business, as it looks to keep current projects on track, according to the presentation executives made during this year’s Investor Day. CEO Andrew Wilson stressed the importance of AI, noting that “this remarkable technology is not merely a...
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