Steve Jobs describes generative AI in newly released 1983 clip

Steve Jobs describes generative AI in newly released 1983 clip

From the Macintosh computer to the iPhone, Apple’s late co-founder Steve Jobs was widely considered an innovative visionary who helped revolutionize the way we use technology in our everyday lives. Now, a newly released clip from 1983 reveals Jobs may have been more ahead of his time than we knew. The Steve Jobs Archive’s latest … Read more

Chinese regulators begin testing GenAI models on socialist values

Chinese regulators begin testing GenAI models on socialist values

Digital code and Chinese flag representing cybersecurity in China. Anton Petrus | Moment | Getty Images AI companies in China are undergoing a government review of their large language models, aimed at ensuring they “embody core socialist values,” according to a report by the Financial Times. The review is being carried out by the Cyberspace Administration … Read more

Andreessen Horowitz founders plan to donate to pro-Trump PACs

Andreessen Horowitz founders plan to donate to pro-Trump PACs

Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif. on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016. (Photo By Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) San Francisco Chronicle/hearst Newspapers Via Getty Images | Hearst Newspapers | Getty Images Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told employees of their venture firm, Andreessen … Read more

Biggest risks of gen AI in your private life: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot

Biggest risks of gen AI in your private life: ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot

Many consumers are enamored with generative AI, using new tools for all sorts of personal or business matters.  But many ignore the potential privacy ramifications, which can be significant. From OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Google’s Gemini to Microsoft Copilot software and the new Apple Intelligence, AI tools for consumers are easily accessible and proliferating. However the … Read more

Goldman Sachs puts a $1 trillion question mark over Generative AI

Goldman Sachs puts a  trillion question mark over Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become the latest buzzword across industries and businesses. Most agree that it is going to revolutionise businesses. Yet serious questions hang over its uses and impact. A KPMG survey in the US found executives expect Generative AI to have an enormous impact on business, but most say they are unprepared … Read more

Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit says AI will transform pharmaceuticals

Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit says AI will transform pharmaceuticals

Before co-founding biotech startup Inceptive, Jakob Uszkoreit had an idea that would eventually make generative artificial intelligence possible. As a researcher at Google in 2017, Uszkoreit was trying to speed up the training of neural networks. He suggested using a new way to interpret data called self-attention. That idea gave way to the transformer, the … Read more

Samsung is developing AI features specifically for China

Samsung is developing AI features specifically for China

TM Roh, head of Samsung’s mobile business, talks about Galaxy AI at the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, France. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC But China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, has been a struggle for Samsung over the last few years. Its market share for smartphones sits under 1%, with local players like Huawei dominating. … Read more

Microsoft giving up OpenAI board observer seat doesn’t settle concerns

Microsoft giving up OpenAI board observer seat doesn’t settle concerns

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (L) looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Microsoft has given up its observer seat on OpenAI’s board. Apple, which was reportedly expected to take a similar observer position, will no longer … Read more

Samsung to launch upgraded Bixby this year with its own AI

Samsung to launch upgraded Bixby this year with its own AI

TM Roh, head of Samsung’s mobile division, discusses the artificial intelligence featues as part of Galaxy AI at the Galaxy Unpacked event in Paris, France on July 10, 2024. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC PARIS — Samsung will launch an upgraded version of its voice assistant Bixby this year based on its own artificial intelligence models, … Read more

Election deepfakes may undermine institutional credibility: Moody’s

Election deepfakes may undermine institutional credibility: Moody’s

With election season underway and artificial intelligence evolving rapidly, AI manipulation in political advertising is becoming an issue of greater concern to the market and economy. A new report from Moody’s on Wednesday warns that generative AI and deepfakes are among the election integrity issues that could present a risk to U.S. institutional credibility. “The … Read more