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Here’s the latest for Friday May 3: Former Trump communications director testifies; Flooding in Houston area; Air Force jet piloted by AI; Orangutan doctors its own ills.
Here’s the latest for Friday May 3: Former Trump communications director testifies; Flooding in Houston area; Air Force jet piloted by AI; Orangutan doctors its own ills.
The tech startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for its business and is hoping to sell for anywhere between $750 million and $1 billion.
Government officials and AI industry executives agreed on Tuesday to apply elementary safety measures in the fast-moving field and establish an international safety research network. Nearly six months after the inaugural global summit on AI safety at Bletchley Park in England, Britain and South Korea are hosting the AI safety summit this week in Seoul. The British government announced on Tuesday a new agreement between 10 countries and the European Union to establish an international network similar to the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute, which is the world's first publicly backed organization, to accelerate the advancement of AI safety science.
Indian digital payments platform Paytm warned of job cuts on Wednesday after reporting that its net loss widened in the fourth quarter as it grapples with a recent regulatory clampdown. One 97 Communications, Paytm's parent, said it expects to cut employee expenses and pare down its annual costs on staff by $48 million to $60 million. India's central bank in February banned the company's banking partner and sister company, Paytm Payments Bank, from conducting banking activity from March.
Microsoft wants to bring generative AI to the forefront of Windows — and the PCs running it. At a pair of keynotes during its annual Build developer conference this week, the company unveiled a new lineup of Windows machines it's calling Copilot+ PCs, plus generative AI-powered features like Recall, which helps users find apps, files and other content they've viewed in the past. Copilot, Microsoft's brand of generative AI, will soon be far more deeply integrated into the Windows 11 experience.
Other sectors have rallied on AI demand, raising the stakes for the chipmaker's latest quarterly update.
The US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. As far as we know, this is the first case of its kind as the DOJ looks to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still harmful even when no children were used to create them.
Oneil Cruz is the first player in the Statcast era to have multiple 120 mph hits in a single game.
In this bonus episode, Devindra chats with Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's head of Windows and Devices, about the new Surface devices and the Copilot+ PC initiative.
The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has closed an almost year-long investigation of Snap's AI chatbot, My AI -- saying it's satisfied the social media firm has addressed concerns about risks to children's privacy. At the same time, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a general warning to industry to be proactive about assessing risks to people's rights before bringing generative AI tools to market. GenAI refers to a flavor of AI that often foregrounds content creation.
Microsoft's big focus at this year's Build conference is generative AI. Azure AI Studio is a toolset within Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service that lets customers combine an AI model like OpenAI’s recently announced GPT-4o with their own data and build a chat assistant or another type of app that "reasons over" that data. Copilot Studio, meanwhile, provides tools to connect Copilot for Microsoft 365 -- the AI-powered "copilot" in apps like Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as Microsoft’s Edge browser and Windows -- to third-party data.
Generative AI makes stuff up. Rick Caccia, the CEO of WitnessAI, believes it can. "Securing AI models is a real problem, and it’s one that's especially shiny for AI researchers, but it’s different from securing use," Caccia, formerly SVP of marketing at Palo Alto Networks, told TechCrunch in an interview.
If you pre-order Samsung’s new AI-powered Galaxy Book4 Edge, you can get a 50-inch Samsung Crystal UHD TV as a bonus.
Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Microsoft Copilot. Hopefully, some of those upcoming events will be a bit less lackluster than this year's edition, which lacks any real standout announcements after Microsoft already announced its new Arm-based laptops and AI features in Windows 11 at a separate event the day before Build.
It's a wrap: European Union lawmakers have given the final approval to set up the bloc's flagship, risk-based regulations for artificial intelligence. In a press release confirming the approval of the EU AI Act, the Council of the European Union said the law is "ground-breaking" and that "as the first of its kind in the world, it can set a global standard for AI regulation." The European Parliament had already approved the legislation in March.
Matt Harmon is back from vacation and feeling refreshed. In his return to the pod, he asks which players need a fantasy refresh in 2024. Andy Behrens joins Harmon on the pod as they try to identify 10 candidates that need a fantasy reputation reboot this upcoming season.
Microsoft debuted a litany of new AI offerings as part of its Build developer conference as its fight with Google and Amazon continues to heat up.
Dyson, Fiskars, Le Creuset, Sealy, KitchenAid, iRobot, Bissell, Solo Stove — and that's just the beginning.
Experts explain what triggers an air quality alert and what you should do if you get one.
Hendricks currently holds a 10.57 ERA.
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.