Alphabet partnership with AI firm Anthropic probed by UK regulator

Alphabet partnership with AI firm Anthropic probed by UK regulator

In this photo illustration, the Alphabet Inc. logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen and the Google logo in the background.  Jaque Silva | Lightrocket | Getty Images Britain’s competition regulator on Tuesday said that it is investigating to see if Google parent Alphabet’s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has resulted in reduced competition. … Read more

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on Jan. 22, 2024. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no … Read more

U.S. stocks little changed ahead of Big Tech earnings

Asian shares slide, U.S. stocks flat

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Oct. 30, 2023 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, … Read more

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

Instagram Will Let You Make Custom AI Chatbots—Even Ones Based on Yourself

Meta’a AI Studio handbook says that users can customize a chatbot by providing a detailed description, along with a name and image, and then specifying how it should respond to specific input. Llama will then draw on those instructions to improvise its responses. Meta says Instagram users can “customize their AI based on things like … Read more

AI-Altered Kamala Harris Video Raises Alarm After Musk Reposts

AI-Altered Kamala Harris Video Raises Alarm After Musk Reposts

NEW YORK (AP) — A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harris saying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away. The video gained attention after tech billionaire Elon Musk shared it on his social media … Read more

How Xavier Jernigan became the voice of Spotify’s AI DJ

How Xavier Jernigan became the voice of Spotify’s AI DJ

If you think Spotify’s AI DJ sounds more human than robot, there’s a reason for that: It’s modeled after an actual person, Xavier “X” Jernigan. Jernigan is Spotify’s head of cultural partnerships and the voice behind DJ X, the music streaming application’s AI-powered DJ. The feature utilizes artificial intelligence technology to analyze the music that … Read more

Government chatbots? It’s one possibility under Ottawa’s new AI strategy – National

Government chatbots? It’s one possibility under Ottawa’s new AI strategy – National

Delayed air passengers, disgruntled phone customers and even hungry people craving a slice of pizza increasingly find their pleas to private companies being answered by artificial intelligence. Soon Canadians who need to reach out to the federal government could also find themselves talking to an employee who’s been helped by non-human assistants. Ottawa is working … Read more

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational to them, you might say—was boosterism for open source AI. It was a stark left turn (or return, if you’re a Linux head) from the app-obsessed 2010s, when developers … Read more

Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It’s Calling Again

Steve Jobs Knew the Moment the Future Had Arrived. It’s Calling Again

Steve Jobs is 28 years old, and seems a little nervous as he starts his speech to a group of designers gathered under a large tent in Aspen, Colorado. He fiddles with his bow tie and soon removes his suit jacket, dropping it to the floor when he finds no other place to set it … Read more

SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google

SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google

After months of speculation about its search ambitions, OpenAI has revealed SearchGPT, a “prototype” search engine that could eventually help the company tear off a slice of Google’s lucrative business. OpenAI said that the new tool would help users find what they are looking for more quickly and easily by using generative AI to gather … Read more