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OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

OpenAI is in the holiday spirit, it seems. The ChatGPT creator announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of reveals that will be livestreamed starting December 5, 2024 at 10 a.m. PT and continue for the next 12 weekdays. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company event will feature announcements ranging from new demos to […]

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OpenAI’s 2024 event: Live updates for ChatGPT product reveals and demos

OpenAI’s 12 days of reveals kick off OpenAI’s end-of-year event is about to begin. You can follow along with all of the announcements right here on our live blog or watch the livestream through OpenAI’s YouTube channel. The first stream begins today at 10 a.m. PT, with new streams starting over the next 12 weekdays.

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Google says its new AI models can identify emotions — and that has experts worried

Google says its new AI model family has a curious feature: the ability to “identify” emotions. Announced on Thursday, the PaliGemma 2 family of models can analyze images, enabling the AI to generate captions and answer questions about people it “sees” in photos. “PaliGemma 2 generates detailed, contextually relevant captions for images,” Google wrote in

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Women in AI: Tamar Eilam is helping IBM build sustainable computing

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Tamar Eilam has worked at IBM for the past 24 years. She’s currently an IBM fellow, serving as chief scientist for

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Ai Pin maker Humane demos AI software for cars, phones and smart speakers

When Humane released its Ai Pin, the San Francisco-based gadget maker envisioned a world with dedicated AI devices — something that you would carry with you in addition to the smartphone in your pocket. However, reviews and sales haven’t been great — returns reportedly begun to outpace unit sales at one point. And Humane recently dropped

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OpenAI inks deal to upgrade Anduril’s anti-drone tech

OpenAI plans to team up with Anduril, the defense startup, to supply its AI tech to systems the U.S. military uses to counter drone attacks. The Wall Street Journal reports that Anduril will incorporate OpenAI tech into software that assesses and tracks unmanned aircraft. Anduril tells the publication that OpenAI’s models could improve the accuracy

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LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce AgentForce is any indicator

If Don Draper from “Mad Men” Don Draper was quintessentially, at his deepest self, an ad man, then Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is likewise a sales guy. Lately he’s been selling – or more like singing the gospel – about AI agents and Salesforce’s recently released agent-maker platform, AgentForce. It’s true that Benioff famously gets

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See Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs generate 3D environments from a single picture

World Labs has announced a new AI feature that turns 2D images into tiny worlds. This tool, the first from Fei-Fei Li’s highly hyped startup, takes a prompt or 2D reference image and spits out a fully navigable 3D environment.  By generating in 3D, World Labs can avoid some of the the control and consistency

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AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform

SageMaker has long been AWS’s fully managed platform for building, training and deploying machine learning and generative AI models. Over time, however, an ecosystem of applications has sprung up around AI and ML models for performing tasks like managing experiments, evaluating model quality and security. Those always lived outside of SageMaker and had to be

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