Chatbots

Alibaba to spend three billion yuan for Chinese New Year AI push as chatbot war heats up

The public holiday period this year begins on Feb 15 and is nine days long, longer than in most previous years

Malaysia had blocked access to Grok in January, citing misuse of the AI service to generate "grossly offensive and non-consensual manipulated images".

Malaysia lifts ban on Musk’s Grok after safety measures added

While the necessary measures are implemented in the AI chatbot, it is subject to continuous monitoring by authorities

According to the report, OpenAI is charging based on ad views rather than per-ad clicks.

OpenAI to start offering chatbot ads to advertisers, The Information reports

OPENAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

While Musk has talked about the potential benefits of formally linking xAI and Tesla, the automaker is not currently an xAI investor.

Musk’s xAI reports wider quarterly loss, plans to power Optimus

The startup has been raising both equity and debt

The attack was one of Australia’s worst mass shootings, leaving 15 people dead and dozens wounded.

Grok spews misinformation about deadly Australia shooting

ELON Musk’s AI chatbot Grok churned out misinformation about Australia’s Bondi Beach mass shooting, misidentifying a key figure who saved lives and falsely claiming that a victim staged his injuries, ...

If your corporate chatbot “hallucinates” and misrepresents or misleads a consumer, your business could be held directly responsible as the publisher of that information.

Chatbot glitches: When disclaimers won’t save you in court

As Singapore courts signal that unverified AI output is negligent, businesses face a new era of liability

Anthropic will have access to more than one gigawatt of computing capacity, coming online in 2026, to train the next generations of its Claude AI model on Google‘s in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs.

Anthropic to use Google’s AI chips worth tens of billions to train Claude chatbot

ANTHROPIC is expanding its deal with Google to use as many as one million of the tech giant’s artificial intelligence chips, worth tens of billions of dollars, as the startup races to advance its AI s...

Much of Google’s AI development “focused on powering its platforms rather than delivering services directly to consumers,” said Ben Wood, an analyst at CCS Insight.

In just one year, Google turns AI setbacks into dominance

CAUGHT off guard by ChatGPT and mocked for early blunders with its own generative artificial intelligence efforts, Google has pulled off a dramatic turnaround in just one year, becoming a major player...

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

Aunt AI-gony will see you now

Chatbots are no longer just productivity tools – they’re becoming part of how we process our inner lives

Musk's company plans to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors.

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

[BENGALURU] Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps develop the company’s Grok chatbot, Business Insider reported on Friday (Sep 12).