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How to freak yourself out with the Sesame demo now.Trying the new voice assistant from AI startup Sesame is the first time I momentarily forgot I was talking to a bot. Compared to ChatGPT’s voice mode, Sesame’s “conversational voice” feels natural, unforced, and engaging, which totally freaked me out. On Feb. 27, Sesame launched … […]
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China’s DeepSeek, which threw Silicon Valley into chaos this week, makes no qualms about sending all of your sensitive data straight to the Chinese government. It’s no secret that the hedge fund-owned startup is closely abiding by the country’s extreme censorship rules. The company’s AI chatbot is consistently skewing reality in often hamhanded efforts to […]
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China’s DeepSeek is outpacing Big Tech’s AI models in technical tasks and affordabilitySorry, OpenAI (and Google and Meta and…). A recently released AI model called DeepSeek from a China-based startup is currently wreaking havoc on the tech space in the U.S. Why? Because it’s blowing all other Big Tech models … Source : For further […]
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Content warning: this story discusses suicide, self-harm, sexual abuse, eating disorders and other disturbing topics. In October of last year, a Google-backed startup called Character.AI was hit by a lawsuit making an eyebrow-raising claim: that one of its chatbots had driven a 14-year-old high school student to suicide. As Futurism’s reporting found afterward, the behavior […]
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Palantir Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock surged an eye-popping 350% year-to-date.But just as retail investors celebrate their portfolios swelling, company insiders — including CFO David A. Glazer and CTO Shyam Sankar — are selling millions of dollars worth of shares.What Happened: In December alone, Glazer sold $23 million worth of shares, while Sankar offloaded a staggering […]
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AI Claims Amid the fallout from UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder, the firm’s prescription drug middleman is under fire for a huge AI oopsie. As TechCrunch reports, a chatbot used by UnitedHealth Group’s Optum Rx pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) to help employees figure out insurance claims and disputes was accidentally made public and easily accessible […]
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Only a “subset of users” are allowed to upload images of people to Sora.OpenAI Sora is limiting depictions of real people and taking other strict safety measures to prevent misuse.The video generator, which was announced on Monday as part of its 12 Days of OpenAI event, has all sorts of editing capabilities for users to […]
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The era of AI video is here, for better or worse.OpenAI officially launched Sora on Monday, Dec. 9, and people are already testing its capabilities. The company showed off its AI video generator last year before launching it during its 12 Days of OpenAI series of announcements. It was made available to the U.S. and […]
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OpenAI “supports U.S.-led efforts to ensure the technology upholds democratic values,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.OpenAI has entered into its first major defense partnership, a deal that could see the AI giant making its way into the Pentagon. The joint venture was recently announced by billion-dollar Anduril Industries, a defense startup owned by Oculus VR […]
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Indonesia and the United States are taking significant steps to strengthen their partnership in digital technology. In a recent meeting in Jakarta, Indonesian Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid and U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Marisa Lago discussed various initiatives aimed at fostering collaboration in this vital sector. Key Takeaways […]
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