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Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer discusses the current tech scene from vantage point of her AI startup
Marissa Mayer has long been an inspiration for innovative women battling to break through the gender barriers in the male-dominated technology industry.
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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don’t want it to replace them
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One Tech Tip: Ready to go beyond Google? Here’s how to use new generative AI search sites
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Wisconsin Assembly passes bills regulating AI use in elections and outlawing AI-produced child porn
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Cisco Systems to lay off more than 4,000 workers in latest sign of tighter times in tech
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Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations
Microsoft says U.S. adversaries — chiefly Iran and North Korea and to a lesser extent Russia and China — are beginning to use generative artificial intelligence in mounting and organizing offensive cyber operations.
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Chatbot users are getting emotionally attached to their AI girlfriends and boyfriends
The generative artificial intelligence boom has led to the emergence of more companion chatbots. Similar to general-purpose AI chatbots that answer typical questions, companion bots use vast amounts of training data to mimic human language.
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OpenAI CEO warns that ‘societal misalignments’ could make artificial intelligence dangerous
The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc.
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Microsoft’s Nadella woos Indian developers to the company’s AI tools
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged more than a thousand Indian computer code developers to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products.
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Philly sheriff’s campaign takes down bogus ‘news’ stories posted to site that were generated by AI
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal’s campaign is acknowledging that a series of positive “news” stories posted to her campaign website were generated by ChatGPT.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella caps a decade of change and tremendous growth
Satya Nadella marks his tenth year as Microsoft CEO on Sunday, capping a decade of stunning growth as he pivoted the slow-moving software giant into a laser focus on cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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Meta posts sharp profit, revenue increase in Q4 thanks to cost cuts and advertising rebound
Meta Platforms Inc. tripled its profit and posted sharply higher revenue in the final quarter of 2023, boosted by a rebound in digital advertising as well cost cutting and layoffs in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg called the “year of efficiency.”
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Samsung reports decline in profit but anticipates business improvement driven by chips
Samsung Electronics has reported an annual 34% decline in operating profit for the last quarter as sluggish demands for its TVs and other consumer electronics products offset hard-won gains from a slowly recovering computer chip market.
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Microsoft profit soars 33% on AI, cloud-computing investments
Microsoft Corp. says that its profit for the October-December quarter soared 33%, powered by its significant investments in artificial intelligence technology.
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Washington state to develop guidelines for agencies using generative AI
Washington state’s governor has called for the state to develop best practices on how agencies use generative artificial intelligence as it continues to incorporate the technology into government operations.
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X pauses some Taylor Swift searches as deepfake explicit images spread
Social media platform X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift as pornographic deepfake images of the singer have circulated online.
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AI companies will need to start reporting their safety tests to the US government
The Biden administration will start implementing a new requirement for the developers of major artificial intelligence systems to disclose their safety test results to the government.
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FTC opens inquiry into Big Tech’s partnerships with leading AI startups
U.S. antitrust enforcers are opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Anthropic and the tech giants that have invested billions of dollars into them.
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Insider Q&A: Small federal agency crafts standards for making AI safe, secure and trustworthy
A little-known federal agency, The National Institute of Standards and Technology, was tapped by the Biden administration to set testing parameters for ensuring generative AI systems are safe, secure, trustworthy and socially responsible.
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AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati
Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos.
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The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
As artificial intelligence’s impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners.
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Samsung vies to make AI more mainstream by baking more of the technology into its Galaxy phones
Smartphones could get much smarter this year as the next wave of artificial intelligence seeps into the devices that accompany people almost everywhere they go.
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Here’s how ChatGPT maker OpenAI plans to deter election misinformation in 2024
ChatGPT maker OpenAI has outlined a plan to prevent its artificial intelligence tools from being used to spread election misinformation in 2024.
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Tech firm Baidu denies report that its Ernie AI chatbot is linked to Chinese military research
The technology company Baidu is refuting a newspaper report that said its artificial intelligence chatbot Ernie was linked to Chinese military research.
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Tech innovations that caught our eye at CES 2024
From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week.
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Tennessee governor, music leaders launch push to protect songwriters and other artists against AI
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has unveiled new legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
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CES 2024 updates: AI fortune telling, accessible gaming, a flying taxi and Martha Stewart
CES 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association will feature the latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more.
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AI-powered misinformation is the world’s biggest short-term threat, Davos report says
The World Economic Forum says false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence is the top immediate risk to the global economy.
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ChatGPT-maker braces for fight with New York Times and authors on ‘fair use’ of copyrighted works
A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn’t be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.
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CES 2024: Car companies unveil new tech and Robert Downey Jr. targets scammers
CES 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas. The multi-day trade event put on by the Consumer Technology Association will feature the latest advances and gadgets across personal tech, transportation, health care, sustainability and more.
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Maryland governor signs executive order guiding AI use
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has announced a starting point for addressing the use of artificial intelligence in state government, as well as efforts to bolster cybersecurity.
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Judges in England and Wales are given cautious approval to use AI in writing legal opinions
Judges in England and Wales have been given approval to use artificial intelligence to help writing legal opinions.
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Microsoft’s new AI key is first big change to keyboards in decades
Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot.
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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for using its stories to train chatbots
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, trying to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots.
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AI pioneer says public discourse on intelligent machines must give ‘proper respect to human agency’
She’s an important figure behind today’s artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that took years to build.
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