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Google is reportedly building AI chatbots based on celebrities and influencers
Google is reportedly building new AI-powered chatbots based on celebrities and YouTube influencers.
Record labels sue AI music generators for ‘massive infringement of recorded music’
Major music labels are taking on AI startups that they suspect trained on their songs without paying. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group sued the music generators Suno and Udio for allegedly infringing on copyrighted works on a “massive scale.”
Apple reportedly even held talks with Meta about an AI partnership as it plays catch-up
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing sources with knowledge of the discussions, Apple has held talks with Meta, Anthropic and Perplexity about the possibility of using the companies' generative AI models.
Apple will reportedly withhold new AI features in Europe due to regulations
Apple said on Friday that it would delay iOS 18’s marquee AI features in the European Union, conveniently blaming Digital Markets Act (DMA) regulations. The company claimed it would block the launch of Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring on the Mac and SharePlay Screen Sharing in the EU this year.
Anthropic’s newest Claude chatbot beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o in some benchmarks
Anthropic rolled out its newest AI language model on Thursday, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The updated chatbot outperforms the company’s previous top-tier model, Claude 3 Opus, but works at twice the speed.
Embracer Group plans to use AI in game development
Embracer plans to use AI in game development, a move that comes just months after a major round of layoffs.
McDonald’s pauses AI-powered drive-thru voice orders
McDonald's has ended a two-year trial of automated voice-ordering systems at more than 100 drive-thru locations. The company is also ending a partnership with IBM over the use of AI order-taking tech.
Picsart and Getty are making an AI image generator entirely trained on licensed content
Picsart and Getty are making an AI image generator entirely trained on licensed content. The manufactured pictures will have full commercial rights.
If AI is going to take over the world, why can't it solve the Spelling Bee?
AI can now create images, video and audio as fast as you can type in descriptions of what you want. It can write poetry, essays and term papers. So why does it suck so hard at solving a simple word puzzle?
Yahoo News gets an AI-powered overhaul
The Yahoo News app is now AI-assisted, thanks to the company’s purchase of Artifact. Yahoo rolled out an update to its news aggregation app on Thursday with AI-powered personal feeds, key takeaways and the ability to flag clickbait headlines.
Musk withdraws his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI
Musk’s suit, which was filed in February, had accused OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of violating the company’s non-profit status and instead prioritizing profits over using AI to help humanity.
Hey Elon, go ahead and ban Apple devices
Following WWDC 2024, Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple's partnership with OpenAI goes through. So enough with the talk, let's see him actually do it.
In case there weren't enough emoji already, Apple's Genmoji uses AI to generate even more
At WWDC 2024, Apple used its new AI platform to create custom emojis based on your prompts called Genmoji.
Apple's first attempt at AI is Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence focuses on upgrading Apple's existing apps and operating systems with AI to make them more useful rather than splashy-but-controversial features like image, video and text generation.
ChatGPT is baked into Apple Intelligence
As rumored, Apple confirmed at WWDC 2024 that it’s made a deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to the iPhone and other devices. GPT-4 will power cloud-based AI queries in iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia.
Apple's new AI-powered Siri can use apps for you
Apple previewed a new version of Siri that can take actions on your behalf and understand a wide range of new queries.
TikTok’s AI efforts reportedly exploit loopholes to use premium Nvidia chips
The US has banned companies like Nvidia from selling their most advanced AI chips to China since 2022. But if loopholes exist, profit-hungry corporations will find and exploit them. A bombshell report on Thursday details how Oracle allows TikTok owner ByteDance to rent Nvidia’s most advanced chips to train AI models on US soil.
Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin
Humane is reportedly trying to sell itself for $1 billion after receiving just 10,000 orders for its confuddling, expensive and ultimately pretty useless AI Pin. The device was savaged by reviewers.
DuckDuckGo dips Into the AI chatbot pond
The new feature called AI Chat lets people access multiple large language models through a single chat interface.
The Tribeca Film Festival will debut a bunch of short films made by AI
The Tribeca Film Festival will debut a bunch of short films made by AI. They are being made using OpenAI’s Sora model.