Episodios

  • EU's landmark AI law takes effect / Meta bets big on AI / AI coming to more Taco Bell drive-thrus [EN]

    EU's landmark AI law takes effect / Meta bets big on AI / AI coming to more Taco Bell drive-thrus [EN]
    Aug 2 2024
    The European Union's AI Act officially took effect, Meta reported a 22% revenue increase driven by AI investments, Hollywood video game performers will strike over AI protections, Yum! Brands plans to expand voice AI tech in Taco Bell drive-thrus, a study found that AI in marketing lowers consumer purchase intent, and several AI startups secured significant VC funding rounds.
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    16 m
  • Apple’s AI rollout delayed / OpenAI could lose up to $5B in 2024 / New chip could cut AI energy use by 1,000x [EN]

    Apple’s AI rollout delayed / OpenAI could lose up to $5B in 2024 / New chip could cut AI energy use by 1,000x [EN]
    Jul 30 2024
    Apple's AI features branded as "Apple Intelligence" will launch in October with iOS 18.1, Elon Musk is accused of violating X’s policies by posting a fake video of Vice President Kamala Harris, OpenAI is set to lose up to $5B in 2024, researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a "Computational Random-Access Memory" chip that could cut AI energy use by at least 1,000 times, and Gartner predicts that 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2025 due to unclear business value and high costs.
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    17 m
  • OpenAI announces SearchGPT / Meta unveils Llama 3.1 / Musk seeks $5B Tesla investment into xAI [EN]

    OpenAI announces SearchGPT / Meta unveils Llama 3.1 / Musk seeks $5B Tesla investment into xAI [EN]
    Jul 26 2024
    OpenAI is testing its AI search engine SearchGPT, Meta unveiled its largest open-source language model Llama 3.1 405B, Google DeepMind's math-solving AI systems achieved a silver medal equivalent in a high school math Olympiad, and Elon Musk is considering a $5B investment from Tesla into his AI startup xAI.
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    17 m
  • OpenAI tops $3.4B in annualized revenue / Apple passes Microsoft as most valuable company / OpenAI taps Oracle for growing compute demands [EN]

    OpenAI tops $3.4B in annualized revenue / Apple passes Microsoft as most valuable company / OpenAI taps Oracle for growing compute demands [EN]
    Jun 13 2024
    OpenAI's annualized revenue surpassed $3.4B, Apple briefly reclaimed the title of the world's most valuable company with a market cap of $3.3 trillion, Oracle announced a cloud infrastructure deal with Microsoft and OpenAI, Pope Francis will attend the G7 summit to advocate for AI regulations, over 80% of U.S. business owners plan to maintain or increase AI investments in 2024, and several AI startups, including Mistral AI and Cohere, secured significant funding rounds.
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    19 m
  • Apple stock closes at record high / Elon Musk drops OpenAI lawsuit / Mistral AI raises $640M [EN]

    Apple stock closes at record high / Elon Musk drops OpenAI lawsuit / Mistral AI raises $640M [EN]
    Jun 12 2024
    Apple's stock hit a record high following the announcement of its AI platform, Apple Intelligence, while Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI, and France's Mistral AI raised $640M in funding, valuing the startup at $6.2B.
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    19 m
  • Apple enters AI race with 'Apple Intelligence' / ChatGPT coming to Apple devices / Siri getting AI upgrade [EN]

    Apple enters AI race with 'Apple Intelligence' / ChatGPT coming to Apple devices / Siri getting AI upgrade [EN]
    Jun 11 2024
    Apple announced "Apple Intelligence" with AI features and a partnership with OpenAI for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS; Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies over privacy concerns; Meta plans to use public social media posts from European users to train its AI models despite EU privacy laws; and Italian AI startup iGenius aims to raise €650M at a €1.7B valuation.
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    16 m
  • 'Apple Intelligence' coming to iPhones / Tech industry opposes California AI bill / Google cracks down on explicit AI apps [EN]

    'Apple Intelligence' coming to iPhones / Tech industry opposes California AI bill / Google cracks down on explicit AI apps [EN]
    Jun 8 2024
    Apple is set to unveil new AI features called "Apple Intelligence" at its Worldwide Developers Conference, Microsoft will make its "Recall" feature opt-in to address privacy concerns, the tech industry opposes a California bill requiring AI safety tests and kill switches, Google is tightening guidelines on AI apps to prevent the generation of sexual and violent content, and a study found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini answered election questions correctly only 73% of the time.
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    15 m
  • Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia face antitrust probes / Humane in talks to sell to HP / NewsBreak app published false AI-written stories [EN]

    Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia face antitrust probes / Humane in talks to sell to HP / NewsBreak app published false AI-written stories [EN]
    Jun 7 2024
    The U.S. FTC and DOJ have agreed to split antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia, Humane is in talks to sell to HP after poor reviews of its AI Pin, NewsBreak has published numerous false AI-generated stories, a Reuters Institute report shows a preference for human journalists over AI in news, and Meta will test an AI assistant for businesses on WhatsApp.
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    14 m