Google’s annual Made by Google hardware event was held earlier Tuesday, and because the company announced so much stuff, a lot got lost in the shuffle. We rounded up some of the more intriguing AI-related announcements that didn’t get a ton of play, like the image-generating Pixel Studio and Pixel Screenshots, which helps save and […]
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Gemini Live, Google’s answer to the recently launched (in limited alpha) Advanced Voice Mode for OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is rolling out on Tuesday, months after being announced at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference. It was announced at Google’s Made by Google 2024 event. Gemini Live lets users have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini, Google’s generative AI-powered
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Labeling and annotation platforms might not get the attention flashy new generative AI models do. But they’re essential. The data on which many models train must be labeled, or the models wouldn’t be able to interpret that data during the training process. Annotation is a vast undertaking, requiring thousands to millions of annotations for the
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing a crypto startup, NovaTech, for allegedly fraudulently raising more than $650 million from over 200,000 investors, many in the Haitian-American community. The SEC frames NovaTech, founded in 2019 by husband-and-wife duo Cynthia and Eddy Petion, as a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme — one that lured investors
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OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the generative AI model that powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, is the company’s first trained on voice as well as text and image data. And that leads it to behave in strange ways, sometimes — like mimicking the voice of the person speaking to it or randomly
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OpenAI has announced a new appointment to its board of directors: Zico Kolter. Kolter, a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, predominantly focuses his research on AI safety. This makes him an “invaluable technical director for [OpenAI’s] governance,” OpenAI writes in a post on its official blog. AI safety has
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Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, OpenAI lost another co-founder. John Schulman, who played a pivotal role in the development of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot platform, has left the company for rival Anthropic. Schulman announced the news on X, saying that his decision stemmed from a desire to deepen
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Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that while 89% of large companies have a digital and AI transformation underway, they’ve only captured 31% of the expected revenue uplift and 25% of anticipated
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We all have ideas, but effectively communicating them and winning people over is no easy feat. So how can we best accomplish this in an era of information overload and shrinking attention spans? If you’re engineers Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler, you use Napkin, a new “visual AI” platform that the two built together. Napkin
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Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the new model brings with it several new capabilities, AWS principal developer advocate Channy Yun explains in a blog post. Users can “guide” the images they
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