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Apple’s investment in generative AI could top $5 billion over the next two years, according to a new report. The company’s spending plans are primarily focused on purchasing servers, the report says. Apple plans to spend around $1 billion per year on AI, but one analyst thinks that
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In late July, OpenAI began rolling out a humanlike voice interface for ChatGPT. While this made it easier to interact with the AI, it raised concerns that users might begin to form emotional attachments to the chatbot. OpenAI addressed this issue in a newly released “system card” for GPT-4o, which
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The tech giant will resume hiring, buoyed by the thaw in Beijing’s regulatory stance towards the sector Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai has revealed the tech giant will resume hiring, buoyed by a thaw in Beijing’s regulatory stance towards the sector. In a statement, Tsai said the company’
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OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate talks with Reliance Industries about boosting their AI offerings in the country, according to a new report. The Information says the two tech giants have spoken to the Indian conglomerate about potential partnerships that could enhance their AI tools in the country. One
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Cloudflare revealed a new weapon in the war against AI data scraping. The company, which was founded in 2009, revealed a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that serves fake AI-generated content to the bots that crawl websites without permission. These bots are often seeking to collect data without consent to
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On Wednesday, Apple was sued in a US federal court by plaintiff Peter Landsheft, who claims the company misrepresented the AI capabilities of Siri during a marketing campaign for the iPhone 16. The proposed class action lawsuit claims Apple misled consumers into buying new phones based on features that didn’
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OpenAI has introduced new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in its API, giving developers the tools to create more advanced voice agents. Full API Documentation. The new speech-to-text models – gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe – promise to greatly improve word error rates and language recognition over the existing Whisper models. That’s due to
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Perplexity is reportedly looking to raise close to $500 million in a new funding round that could value the firm at $8 billion. A Wall Street Journal report on October 20, citing unnamed sources, says the potential funding round would be the company’s fourth within a year and would
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Anthropic has announced a significant upgrade to its chatbot, adding web search capabilities for paid users in the U.S. The “feature preview” is part of the latest update to Claude, which users can enable in their profiles. The product lead for Claude, Scott White, said it’ll be available
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Anthropic is making significant strides in targeting enterprise clients with its AI-powered tools, according to a new report.
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Legal filings in the ongoing antitrust case against Google have revealed that the search engine giant owns a 14% stake in the AI startup Anthropic, with its investment capped at 15%. Furthermore, Google has no voting rights, no seats on the board, and no observer rights.
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Tencent Holdings Ltd. is planning to significantly increase its spending on AI infrastructure after reporting its fastest revenue growth in more than a year.