Google’s AI Overviews and other AI-powered tools, including chatbots, are devastating traffic for news publishers, per a Wall Street Journal report. Now that people can simply ask a chatbot for answers – sometimes generated from news content taken without a publisher’s knowledge – there’s no need to click on Google’s blue links. That means referrals […]
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski recently told Bloomberg TV that his company essentially stopped hiring a year ago and credited generative AI for enabling this massive workforce reduction. However, despite Siemiatkowski’s bullishness on AI, the company is not relying entirely on AI to replace human workers who leave, as open job listings — for more humans
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday launched an investigation into Character.AI and 14 other technology platforms over child privacy and safety concerns. The investigation will assess whether Character.AI — and other platforms that are popular with young people, including Reddit, Instagram and Discord — conform to Texas’ child privacy and safety laws. The investigation
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Marissa Mayer has a lot of insights into the promise and problems with online advertising. She played an instrumental role in the early days of Google Search and spent several years as Yahoo’s CEO. Today, Mayer is the CEO of her own company, Sunshine, which is creating apps to do things like share photos among
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Social network X has so far limited its AI chatbot Grok (built by Elon Musk’s other company xAI) to its premium, paying users. However, the platform is seemingly preparing to open up the chatbot to free users. Over the weekend, several app researchers and users posted about a free version of Grok being made available
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AI has already given us some weird demos. And friends, it’s only going to get weirder from here. As the tech world runs screaming head first into the uncanny valley, lines will blur and every will continue getting stranger. Take, for example, Wednedsay’s Meta Connect keynote. There was a constant drum beat Meta AI and
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday that the company will begin to surface AI characters made by creators through Meta AI studio on Instagram. The tests will begin in the U.S. The social media company’s announcement comes on the same day as a16z-backed chatbot company Character.AI is rolling out the ability for users to
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a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese and Chinese. The startup tested the calling feature ahead of today’s public launch. During that time, it said that more than 3 million users had
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