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Amazon Steps Up AI Race With $4 Bn Anthropic Investment

Amazon had already announced it aimed to soup up its Alexa voice assistant with generative AI, which the firm said would allow users to have smoother conversations.

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Microsoft To Offer OpenAI's Dall-E 3 In Bing

Two versions of Dall-E were developed by OpenAI and presaged the massive explosion of interest in generative AI that came when it released ChatGPT late last year.

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Amazon Empowers Alexa With Generative AI

Generative AI, such as used in the ChatGPT chatbot, delivers content as complex as a poem or scholarly essay in just seconds, and Amazon's goal is that Alexa could do that and even more with verbal commands from a user's living room or kitchen.

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X, Formerly Twitter, Cuts Trust And Safety Team That Moderates Toxic Content: Report

X, formerly Twitter, reportedly cut its trust and safety team to around 20 people earlier this month even after advertisers discussed concerns about toxic content on the platform.

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Google AI Tool Predicts Danger Of Genetic Mutations

Researchers at Google DeepMind, the tech giant's artificial intelligence arm, introduced a tool that predicts whether genetic mutations are likely to cause harm, a breakthrough that could help research into rare diseases.

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Musk Considers Charging All X Users Monthly Fee

Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion but has since admitted its value has plunged after he gutted its workforce and allowed right-wing conspiracy theorists back on the site, sending advertisers fleeing.

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Why Humans Can't Trust AI: You Don't Know How It Works, What It's Going To Do, If It'll Serve Your Interests

An AI can't rationalize its decision-making. You can't look under the hood of the self-driving vehicle at its trillions of parameters to explain why it made the decision that it did. AI fails the predictive requirement for trust.

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AI 'No Substitute' For Fashion Designers' Creativity

AI is transforming the fashion world but the fast growing technology will never be a replacement for designers' "original creativity", according to the head of a pioneering project.

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Slack CEO Is Ready To Ride AI Wave

Artificial Intelligence is transforming Slack, the widely used workplace messaging platform, its CEO said just nine months after taking on one of the most high profile jobs in Silicon Valley.

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EU Hits TikTok With Big Fine Over Child Data

The regulator highlighted in its ruling Friday how children signing up had TikTok accounts set to public by default, meaning anyone could view or comment on their content.

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iPhone Switching To USB-C Is A Win For Consumers And Environment – But To What Extent?

Since the inception of Apple, the company has been well known to develop various proprietary connectors in lieu of adopting tech standards used elsewhere in the industry.

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'Immortals Of Aveum' Developer Cuts Nearly Half Of Workforce Amid Low Player Count

Ascendant Studios' CEO Bret Robbins said the team, which Electronics Arts touted as having the right experience to deliver "Immortals of Aveum," had to make the necessary adjustments now that its game has been shipped.

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Apple Follows the Market, Bows to EU, and Unveils iPhone with USB-C Charger

The update to Apple's line comes as the Silicon Valley tech giant faces declining sales of iPhones, with premium prices pushing customers to delay switching to newer models.

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From Wow To New Normal: Driverless Cars Cruise The Streets Of San Francisco

Autonomous vehicles in San Francisco are operated by Waymo and GM-owned Cruise and earlier this summer both operators received permission by a California regulator to operate 24/7 across the city except on freeways.

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Biden's Curbs On China Could Blunt Singapore's Edge In An Emerging Technology Field

Some in the industry worry that the Biden administration's recent ban on certain U.S. investments in China, specifically targeting semiconductors and microelectronics, AI, and quantum information tech, may come in Singapore's way to glory.

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Apple Shares Hit on Reports of China Government's iPhone Restrictions

China is reportedly planning to expand an iPhone ban to government-backed agencies and state companies, broadening the effect of the policy in a centrally-planned economy.