July 27, 2023 Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have joined forces to launch the Frontier Model Forum to ensure the "safe and responsible development" of the most powerful AI models. Frontier models, as defined by the companies, surpass more...
July 27, 2023 The semiconductor industry is facing a major skill shortage. A report by the Semiconductor Industry Association and Oxford Economics estimates that the U.S. will need to train 67,000 new technicians, engineers, and computer scientists by more...
July 27, 2023 Amazon is hoping to revitalize its Alexa voice assistant with the help of generative AI. The company sees this technology as a way to make Alexa more conversational and less transactional, and to open up more...
July 26, 2023 The emergence of AI technology has raised the dilemma of how its inventors may benefit from it while avoiding worries of AI destroying humanity or achieving consciousness. AI-related valuations are soaring, leading to creative revenue more...
July 26, 2023 Google has proposed a new way to determine whether browsers can be trusted, as a defense against criminal fraud and other bad behavior. The proposal, dubbed Web Environment Integrity (WEI), has been met with criticism more...
July 26, 2023 People around the world are trading their eyeball scans for free cryptocurrency, in a project that has raised concerns among privacy campaigners and data regulators. The project, called Worldcoin, was launched by Sam Altman, the more...
July 26, 2023 Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could face legal challenges, as other companies including Meta and Microsoft already have intellectual property rights to the letter. Trademark attorney Josh Gerben said that there are more...
July 26, 2023 OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, has released the app for Android in four countries: the United States, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil. The app is still in beta, but OpenAI plans to expand more...
July 26, 2023 Google's water consumption has soared in recent years, with the company using 5.6 billion gallons of water in 2022. This is a 20% increase from the previous year, and the majority of the water was more...
July 26, 2023 TikTok is planning to launch an e-commerce platform in the United States in early August, according to the Wall Street Journal. The platform will sell China-made goods, and TikTok will be responsible for storing and more...
July 26, 2023 A new study by Citizen Lab Toronto has found that WeChat, China's largest social media platform, may be sharing more user data than users expect. The study, which was published on Monday, found that WeChat more...
July 25, 2023 Microsoft and Google, are facing mounting criticism as they forge ahead with plans to establish cloud storage centers in Saudi Arabia. Human rights activists fear that the lack of robust privacy laws in the country more...
