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Today — 1 June 2024Main stream

Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling

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By: Nico Grant and Katie Robertson
1 June 2024 at 05:02
Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention.

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Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, last year. A new A.I.-generated feature in Google search results “is greatly detrimental to everyone apart from Google,” a newspaper executive said.
Yesterday — 31 May 2024Main stream

The New ChatGPT Offers a Lesson in AI Hype

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By: Brian X. Chen
31 May 2024 at 05:07
OpenAI released GPT-4o, its latest chatbot technology, in a partly finished state. It has much to prove.

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ChatGPT-4o trying to solve a geometry problem
Before yesterdayMain stream

OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns

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By: Cade Metz
30 May 2024 at 13:24
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.

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The OpenAI offices in San Francisco.

What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate

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By: Mike Isaac
29 May 2024 at 05:02
A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.

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Meta’s open-source A.I. system is available to any developer to download and use.

Mark Zuckerberg is Popular Again Thanks to Meta’s Open-Source AI

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By: Mike Isaac
29 May 2024 at 05:00
After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model

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By: Cade Metz
28 May 2024 at 23:31
The advanced A.I. system would succeed GPT-4, which powers ChatGPT. The company has also created a new safety committee to address A.I.’s risks.

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As Sam Altman’s OpenAI trains its new model, its new Safety and Security committee will work to hone policies and processes for safeguarding the technology, the company said.

Elon Musk’s xAI Raises $6 Billion

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By: Jason Karaian
27 May 2024 at 14:11
Elon Musk, who founded xAI last year, has said the business “still has a lot of catching up to do” as it looks to compete with well-funded companies like OpenAI.

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Elon Musk in New York last month.

AI’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious

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By: Kevin Roose
21 May 2024 at 14:00
Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats.

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Anthropic researchers found that turning certain features on or off in the company’s chatbot could change how the A.I. system behaved.

Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her

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By: Tripp Mickle
21 May 2024 at 14:35
Last week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie “Her.”

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Scarlett Johansson said in a statement on Monday that an OpenAI chatbot’s voice sounded “eerily similar to mine” despite her refusals.

Can AI Make the PC Cool Again? Microsoft Thinks So.

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By: Karen Weise and Brian X. Chen
21 May 2024 at 09:35
Microsoft, HP, Dell and others unveiled a new kind of laptop tailored to work with artificial intelligence. Analysts expect Apple to do something similar.

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Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, announcing the new artificial intelligence functionality on Monday.

Inside OpenAI’s Library

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By: Cade Metz and Christie Hemm Klok
17 May 2024 at 22:45
OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

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OpenAI’s Chief Scientist, Ilya Sutskever, Is Leaving the Company

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 21:39
In November, Ilya Sutskever joined three other OpenAI board members to force out Sam Altman, the chief executive, before saying he regretted the move.

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Ilya Sutskever, who contributed to breakthrough research in artificial intelligence, brought instant credibility to OpenAI.

OpenAI Unveils New ChatGPT That Listens, Looks and Talks

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By: Cade Metz
14 May 2024 at 01:12
Chatbots, image generators and voice assistants are gradually merging into a single technology with a conversational voice.

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The new app is part of a much wider effort to combine conversational chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT with voice assistants like the Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri.

OpenAI Releases ‘Deepfake’ Detector to Disinformation Researchers

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By: Cade Metz and Tiffany Hsu
7 May 2024 at 06:00
The prominent A.I. start-up is also joining an industrywide effort to spot content made with artificial intelligence.

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OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. The company said that its new detector can identify 98.8 percent of images created by DALL-E 3, its own generator.

8 Daily Newspapers Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.

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By: Katie Robertson
30 April 2024 at 10:51
The suit, which accuses the tech companies of copyright infringement, adds to the fight over the online data used to power artificial intelligence.

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The firm behind the lawsuit, Alden Global Capital, bought Tribune Publishing, which operated metropolitan dailies including The Chicago Tribune, in 2021.

Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

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Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check

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By: Cade Metz， Karen Weise and Tripp Mickle
29 April 2024 at 00:01
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

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Friends From the Old Neighborhood Turn Rivals in Big Tech’s A.I. Race

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By: Cade Metz and Nico Grant
29 April 2024 at 00:01
Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, who both grew up in London, feared a corporate rush to build artificial intelligence. Now they’re driving that competition at Google and Microsoft.

© Left, Enric Fontcuberta/EPA, via Shutterstock; right, Clara Mokri for The New York Times

Demis Hassabis, left, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, and Mustafa Suleyman, the chief executive of Microsoft AI, were longtime friends from London.

Microsoft Reports Rising Revenues as A.I. Investments Bear Fruit

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By: Karen Weise
25 April 2024 at 18:48
The tech giant’s quarterly results included strong growth in cloud computing, fueled by its services in generative artificial intelligence.

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In recent quarters, Microsoft’s A.I. push has helped it gain market share from Amazon, the leading cloud services provider.

Microsoft Makes a New Push Into Smaller A.I. Systems

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By: Karen Weise and Cade Metz
23 April 2024 at 01:18
The company that has invested billions in generative A.I. pioneers like OpenAI says giant systems aren’t necessarily what everyone needs.

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The smallest Microsoft Phi-3 model can fit on a smartphone, and it runs on the kinds of chips that power regular computers.

Europe’s A.I. ‘Champion’ Sets Sights on Tech Giants in U.S.

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By: Liz Alderman and Adam Satariano
12 April 2024 at 00:01
Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

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“The issue with not having a European champion is that the road map gets set by the United States,” Mr. Mensch said.
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