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Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking with Almar Latour, who is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent company Dow Jones, which you can think of as a huge research and data provider for companies of all sizes. Dow Jones itself is part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Latour is…
Source: Live Mint Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn has entered the field of artificial intelligence with the launch of a new company called Prismix. The new company aims to develop generative storytelling technologies. In a statement about the new company, Devgn said, “With Prismix, we are stepping into the future of storytelling. AI is not just…
Source: Live Mint Here’s a case in point. Many clients of Northwest Registered Agent LLC, a company that provides compliance filing and other business services, have been using an AI-powered agent, AI-RAH, for the past two years. This AI agent handles tasks such as forming limited liability companies (LLCs), corporations, and non-profits. It manages document…
Source: The Verge Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features like type to Siri and product knowledge, and added an integration with ChatGPT. We’ve also been working on a more personalized Siri, giving it…
Source: The Verge Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that’s currently on Netflix won’t look how you remember it did when it aired. And not in a good way. The “HD” remaster of the 1980s sitcom being streamed is a nightmarish mess of distorted faces, garbled text, and misshapen backgrounds….
Source: The Verge DuckDuckGo has big plans for embedding AI into its search engine. The privacy-focused company just announced that its AI-generated answers, which appear for certain queries on its search engine, have exited beta and now source information from across the web — not just Wikipedia. It will soon integrate web search within its…
Source: The Verge Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption. University of Massachusetts researcher Andrew Barto and former DeepMind research scientist Richard Sutton warned that AI companies…
Source: The Verge Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well. In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to “think,” particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI’s Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk…
Source: The Verge Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.” He said those articles may also get a set of AI-generated…
Source: The Verge Microsoft has announced Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI system for healthcare that can, among other things, listen to and create notes based on clinical visits. The system combines voice-dictating and ambient listening tech created by AI voice company Nuance, which Microsoft bought in 2021. According to Microsoft’s announcement, the new system can…
