Welcome back to our weekly recap.
This week, we delve into the Department of Justice’s directive for Google to divest Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI’s unintentional deletion of potentially pivotal evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are leveraging TikTok’s brainrot as research tools. Let’s do that.
Google should take steps to help break up the corporation’s illegal monopoly in online search? The District Court docket judge, Amit Mehta, ruled in August that Google had abused its dominance over the search industry, and the Department of Justice’s latest filing suggests that Google’s ownership of Android and Chrome poses “a major problem” to efforts aimed at making the search market competitive?
has partnered with Amazon Internet Services to debut its flagship generative artificial intelligence models exclusively on the Amazon platform. Anthropic is collaborating with Annapurna Labs, the chipmaking arm of AWS, to design and develop subsequent iterations of Trainium accelerators – bespoke silicon solutions tailored for accelerating AI models. With its latest influx of funds from Amazon, the tech giant’s
In a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit between The New York Times and Daily News, OpenAI consented to provide access to two digital machines, enabling counsel to conduct targeted searches of their copyrighted content within the AI training datasets. In a letter to the court, attorneys representing the publishers claim that OpenAI’s engineers deliberately wiped clean the digital archives containing their clients’ search data from one of the numerous machines at their disposal.
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The style mogul acquired hands-on experience with Tesla’s humanoid robotic prototype. On the popular video-sharing platform X, Kim Kardashian shares a quirky moment featuring Optimus Prime from Transformers, where she encourages the iconic robot to form a heart shape with its hand, bust a move like it’s attending a Hawaiian luau, and engage in a game of rock, paper, scissors.
The Ring Company, a pioneering wearable device manufacturer, secured a substantial $75 million investment from Dexcom, a leading developer of glucose monitoring technology. The funding, marking a successful close to Oura’s Collection D round, has elevated the company’s valuation above $5 billion.
The customizable event-planning app surpasses older options like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events in popularity among Gen Z users, who have just crowned it Google’s top app for 2024.
Microsoft is poised to empower Group’s users by enabling voice cloning, allowing their digital avatars to seamlessly communicate with others in up to nine languages – including English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.
According to reports, hackers compromised a web-based course created by an influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist, exposing sensitive data on nearly 800,000 individuals. Tate is currently under house arrest pending trial for alleged crimes of human trafficking and rape.
The U.S. The Shopper Monetary Safety Bureau has ruled that all digital service providers handling a significant volume of transactions must undergo bank-like oversight, potentially impacting entities such as Apple Pay, Cash App, Google Pay, PayPal, and Venmo.
According to reports cited by Bloomberg, Apple is developing a cutting-edge model of Siri that leverages advanced massive language models, aimed at rivaling the natural-sounding capabilities of competitors like Google’s Gemini Stay.
Researchers have leveraged AI-powered tools that transform PDF documents into audio experiences, where the text is read aloud in a monotone voice amidst “oddly satisfying” vertical video game-style visuals reminiscent of popular titles like Subway Surfers.
As Instagram Threads reaches a milestone of 20 million users, the platform is introducing a novel feature, custom feeds, designed to cater to the growing appetite for personalized experiences.
OpenAI has introduced a free online course aimed at helping K-12 educators learn how to integrate ChatGPT into their classrooms. Some educators express caution regarding the perceived expertise – and its propensity for unintended consequences.
As a self-proclaimed day-by-day phrase enthusiast and crossword puzzle aficionado, I’m starting to sense that the market is on the cusp of reaching critical mass, with the saturation point looming large? Netflix, in partnership with TED, introduced a daily word-puzzle series called TED Tumblewords.
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As individuals increasingly turn to generative AI chatbots for answers about their health concerns and to gain a deeper understanding of their wellbeing, the lines between traditional healthcare and cutting-edge technology continue to blur. Since October, hundreds of healthcare professionals have leveraged the platform’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok, to securely upload and analyze X-rays, MRIs, and PET scans, gaining valuable insights to inform patient care. Medical information is a specific class of data protected by federal regulations, which are primarily inaccessible to individuals unless you explicitly choose to access it. Just because something is possible doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wise to do so. What’s posted online remains forever online – a crucial consideration in today’s digital age.
