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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-video model Sora. OpenAI closed the year with “12 Days of OpenAI,” a series of 12 streams highlighting new product reveals and features.…
Intel said it plans to spin off its corporate venture arm, Intel Capital, as an independent fund, with Intel as its “anchor investor.” In a press release on Tuesday, Intel said the move:[enable] greater autonomy' and 'flexibility to attract external capital'. Intel expects Intel Capital to begin operating independently in the second half of 2025, at which time it will be rebranded. Intel said the existing Intel Capital team will transition to the new fund and business operations will continue as normal during the transition period. “The separation of Intel Capital is a win-win for both companies as it allows…
Executives and researchers leading Meta's AI efforts said they were using OpenAI while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages made public Tuesday by a court in one of the company's ongoing AI copyright cases, Kadri v. Mehta. He was said to be obsessed with breaking the GPT-4 model. “Let's be honest… our goal has to be GPT-4,” Ahmad Aldar, vice president of generative AI at Meta, told Meta researcher Hugo Touvron in October 2023. I said this in a message to. “64,000 GPUs are coming! We need to build the frontier and learn how to win this race.” Although…
Security researchers say malicious hackers are exploiting newly discovered vulnerabilities in Fortinet's firewalls to infiltrate businesses and enterprise networks. In an advisory published Tuesday, security product maker Fortinet said a vulnerability rated critical in its FortiGate firewall, tracked as CVE-2024-55591, is “being exploited in the wild.” I admitted it. Although Fortinet has made a patch available, security researchers say hackers have been using the vulnerability since December as a zero-day (meaning before Fortinet was aware of the vulnerability and made a fix available). I warned you that there was a lot of sexual abuse going on. This is the latest…
Being interrupted is a nuisance. Apparently, even AI-generated podcast hosts agree. Or as discovered by users of Google NotebookLM. NotebookLM was released last year and made waves for its ability to create fully AI-generated podcast-like discussions from user-uploaded content, discussed by a chatty AI bot that acts like a podcast host. . In December 2024, NotebookLM launched a new feature called “Interactive Mode.” This allows users to “call” into the podcast and ask questions, effectively interrupting the AI host's conversation. When this feature was first rolled out, AI hosts seemed annoyed by such interruptions. Josh Woodward, vice president of Google…
Indian space technology startup Pixel has successfully launched the first three hyperspectral satellites of its Firefly commercial satellite constellation on a SpaceX rocket from California, marking a significant mileage for India's growing space ambitions. It became a stone. India is home to about 300 space startups and has attracted global attention with recent developments such as the successful landing of a lunar rover in the South Pole, the launch of a coronagraphy probe, and joining the Artemis Accord in partnership with NASA. I am collecting. Additionally, India plans to launch its first manned spacecraft mission next year, have a space…
OpenAI has appointed executives from investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. OpenAI announced Tuesday that Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investment platform, has joined OpenAI's board of directors. Brett Taylor, chairman of the OpenAI board of directors, said in a statement that Ogunlesi has an “extraordinary track record of operating globally, navigating complex and dynamic commercial environments, and driving the success of organizations.” . Mr. Ogunlesi worked for the financial services company Credit Suisse for 23 years, including as executive vice chairman of Credit Suisse's investment banking…
After testing live video features in the fall, newsletter platform Substack announced Tuesday that it will make live streaming available to all publishers. This new feature allows creators to engage with their audience and collaborate with other publishers. The introduction of live streaming shows that Substack is following in the footsteps of other platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Given the looming ban of TikTok in the US, this addition comes at a timely time, giving creators new ways to connect with their audiences. To use the live video feature, users must have at least 10 free subscribers in the…
US TikTok users maliciously joined another Chinese social media app, RedNote (also known as Xiaohongshu), sending it to the top of the US App Store on Monday, en masse over the US government's decision to ban TikTok. He's snorting. Unfortunately, many of those who have already made the transition face issues with their accounts being suspended or banned for various reasons. Initially, RedNote seemed like a promising alternative to ByteDance's TikTok in terms of app functionality due to its focus on short-form video feeds and creator content. However, the app is not a one-to-one replacement for TikTok, but is also…
With less than a week left until his term ends, President Joe Biden is far from done making his mark on the AI industry. President Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order allowing private AI companies to lease federal land owned by the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to build AI data centers. Companies building data centers at these sites must bring enough clean energy resources online to match the power needed to power the data centers. This is not a grant program. AI companies that build data centers at these federal sites will have to pay the…