Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

We don’t save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes. But I’m thinking about if and how to introduce it in the future, because a lot of people do want that experience. If you could just say, ‘What was … Read more

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for an friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The company is overhauling Copilot, the text-based artificial intelligence tool bundled with Windows and other software, with the addition of vision, voice, and the … Read more

This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data

So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing startup called Calliope Networks is hoping to change that with its new “License to Scrape,” a program aimed directly at YouTube stars. “There’s obvious demand from AI companies to … Read more

Inside one of the first all-female hacker houses in San Francisco

Inside one of the first all-female hacker houses in San Francisco

For Molly Cantillon, living in a hacker house wasn’t just a dream, but a necessity. “I had lived in a few hacker houses before and wanted to replicate that energy,” said Cantillon, 20, co-founder of HackHer House and founder of the startup NOX. “A place where really energetic, hardcore people came together to solve problems. … Read more

OpenAI sees $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenue

OpenAI sees  billion loss this year on .7 billion in revenue

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, expects about $5 billion in losses on $3.7 billion in revenue this year, CNBC has confirmed. The company generated $300 million in revenue last month, … Read more

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems

No, Sam Altman, AI Won’t Solve All of Humanity’s Problems

We already knew where OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, stands on artificial intelligence vis-à-vis the human saga: It will be transformative, historic, and overwhelmingly beneficial. He has been nothing but consistent across countless interviews. For some reason, this week he felt it necessary to distill those opinions in a succinct blog post. “The Intelligence Age,” as … Read more

China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen

China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen

Chinese regulators likely learned from the EU AI Act, says Jeffrey Ding, an assistant professor of Political Science at George Washington University. “Chinese policymakers and scholars have said that they’ve drawn on the EU’s Acts as inspiration for things in the past.” But at the same time, some of the measures taken by the Chinese … Read more

Stop Sharing ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Chain Messages On Instagram

Stop Sharing ‘Goodbye Meta AI’ Chain Messages On Instagram

If you’re on Instagram right now, you might be seeing a dire message being shared about artificial intelligence features from Meta Platforms, Instagram’s parent company. These include a chatbot that will answer your questions in a search bar, as well as services that can create digital stickers and edit photos. And based on the popularity … Read more

OpenAI’s Sam Altman tells employees he didn’t get ‘giant equity stake’

OpenAI’s Sam Altman tells employees he didn’t get ‘giant equity stake’

At an all-hands meeting on Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied that there are plans for him to receive a “giant equity stake” in the company, calling that information “just not true,” according to a person who was in attendance. Altman and finance chief Sarah Friar both said at the meeting, conducted by video, that … Read more

Four High Schoolers Develop Deer Avoidance AI Tech You Can Add To Your Car

Four High Schoolers Develop Deer Avoidance AI Tech You Can Add To Your Car

Deer are beautiful and majestic creatures, but they also seem to be vehicle-seeking missiles. Four high-school girls enrolled at STEM School Highlands Ranch in Colorado are developing a small device that can alert drivers to nearby wildlife faster than a human could visually spot unaided. The group called Project Deer has already won the state’s … Read more