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The surprising way OpenAI could reportedly get out of its pact with Microsoft

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The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investor, partner, and, increasingly, rival, Microsoft, reporting their five-year romance has cooled owing to financial pressure on OpenAI, the amount of computing power Microsoft is providing OpenAI, and disagreements between the two about ground rules. Most fascinating perhaps […]

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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

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One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. And he (not surprisingly) blames Microsoft. A month after Salesforce’s enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which

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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you guide AI-generated audio conversations, launches business pilot

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Google Thursday updated the audio summarization feature of its AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM, which recently gained significant attention for its podcast-like audio conversations based on the content users share, with the ability to guide those conversations and focus on specific topics instead of just generating holistic audio summaries. Today, audio Overviews in NotebookLM

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With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer

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As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is AI doesn’t fit into existing software engineering workflows, because it literally doesn’t speak the same language. For instance, LLMs (aka large language models) require a lot of cajoling to deliver valid JSON. That’s where a U.S.-based startup called Dottxt

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From Elon Musk to cop car chases, how a software engineer launched a police AI startup

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Earlier this year, Abel founder Daniel Francis was going 135 miles per hour down a highway in Oakland, California. The driver, a police officer, had a gun in his lap.   Francis has made a habit of riding shotgun with policemen in the name of research for his company, which creates AI to fill out police

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Meta’s AI chief says world models are key to ‘human-level AI’ — but it might be 10 years out

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Are today’s AI models truly remembering, thinking, planning, and reasoning, just like a human brain would? Some AI labs would have you believe they are, but according to Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, the answer is no. He thinks we could get there in a decade or so, however, by pursuing a new method

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Fable adds cognitive and hearing impairments to its accessibility tools with $25M round

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Fable has gained a reputation as the go-to startup for helping companies build digital products that are more accessible to people with disabilities. After raising $25 million in new funding, the Toronto-based startup is now expanding the communities it supports and working to make AI training data more inclusive. Fable started in 2020 as a

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