Episodios

  • Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix chatbot / Nvidia falls after chip delay report / Groq raises $640M [EN]

    Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix chatbot / Nvidia falls after chip delay report / Groq raises $640M [EN]
    Aug 6 2024
    Five secretaries of state have urged Elon Musk to update X's chatbot Grok for spreading misinformation about the 2024 presidential election, Nvidia's shares fell 7% due to a delay in its next-gen AI chips, Google rehired Character.AI co-founders and secured a license for their technology, AI chip startup Groq raised $640M in a Series D round, and Meta is negotiating with actors to feature their voices in AI projects.
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    19 m
  • 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