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AI Ethics Tackles Issues Arising From Machines Making Decisions
July 29, 2024

Imagine a world where machines make life-altering decisions about your health, your job prospects and even your freedom. That world isn’t science fiction — it’s already here. As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes our lives, a new frontier is emerging: AI ethics. This rapidly evolving field...

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Anthropic Named ‘Best Performing’ LLM as AI Arms Race Intensifies
July 29, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) firm Galileo has released a new ranking of top large language models (LLMs). The company on Monday (July 29) announced its latest “Hallucination Index,” which ranks the performance of AI LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta. “This...

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OpenAI Fires Shot at Google With AI-Powered ‘SearchGPT’
July 29, 2024

OpenAI’s new “SearchGPT” tool, launched Thursday (July 25), aims to shake up the eCommerce industry online with AI-powered product discovery and comparison. The prototype, available to a limited test group, promises more concise and relevant results than conventional search engines. Unlike Google’s pages of links, SearchGPT...

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Freelancer.com CEO Says Anthropic Aggressively Scrapes Data From Sites
July 28, 2024

Website publishers are accusing artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic of “aggressively” scraping data from their sites. Such actions could violate publishers’ terms of services, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (July 26), citing interviews with those website owners. Data scraping is the automated process of...

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XAI Begins Training Chatbot on Content From X
July 26, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI has reportedly begun training its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, on users’ posts on X, the social media site also owned by Musk. X added a setting this week, available only to those accessing the social media site on the web, that...

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Photo App Photoroom Taps Green Energy for AI Training
July 26, 2024

Photo editing startup Photoroom plans to power its artificial intelligence (AI) training using 100% renewable energy as tech companies grapple with AI’s growing environmental impact. The Paris-based company, which claims to have amassed over 150 million downloads since its 2019 launch, is betting that eco-friendly...

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This Week in AI: AI Surge Ignites Global Tech Race and Regulatory Response
July 26, 2024

The artificial intelligence landscape is experiencing a dramatic transformation as tech giants and startups compete for dominance in AI-powered search, robotics and edge computing while regulators rush to adapt. From Microsoft and Google’s battle for search supremacy to the emergence of AI delivery bots and...

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AI-Powered Delivery Robots Aim to Slash Costs
July 26, 2024

A new contender has entered the increasingly crowded field of autonomous delivery robots, hoping to automate last-mile logistics for eCommerce. Bay Area startup Vayu Robotics unveiled its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered delivery robot, touting a novel approach that could potentially reduce costs for online retailers. The announcement comes...

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Google DeepMind: New AI Models Can Earn Silver Medal in Math Olympiad
July 25, 2024

Google DeepMind introduced two new artificial intelligence (AI) models and said they correctly answered four out of six questions in a math competition that has become a benchmark measuring the capabilities of AI systems. The new AI models are a reinforcement-learning based system for formal math...