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Telcos, Media & Tech

In just one year, Google turns AI setbacks into dominance

AI companion apps such as Talkie are expected to reach US$120 million in market size this year.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Aunt AI-gony will see you now

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo/File Photo
Global Enterprise

Musk's xAI lays off hundreds of data annotators, Business Insider reports

Generative AI companies have been under scrutiny in recent weeks, after Reuters reported on internal Meta policies that permitted chatbots to have romantic conversations with children.
Telcos, Media & Tech

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta and others

xAI’s Grok chatbot last week ignited controversy by answering multiple user prompts with right-wing propaganda about the purported oppression of white South Africans.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Microsoft strikes deal with Musk to host Grok AI

Apple says it is actively looking at revamping the Safari Web browser on iPhones and other devices so that instead of offering Google by default, they’ll potentially show other AI tools.
Opinion & Features

Apple’s wandering eye is good for everyone but Google

Grok is the name of a group of LLMs – or generative artificial intelligence models – developed by Musk, which can be accessed on his social media platform X.
Companies & Markets

EU to probe use of personal data by X's AI chatbot

Some tasks, humans should simply surrender to our bot overlords.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

I’ll have my bots call your bots

Keen to increase market share, Baidu announced on Thursday that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions.
International

China’s Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

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