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Is AI ‘Copilot’ a Generic Term or a Brand Name?

Microsoft uses Copilot as a product name, but more and more often the word sums up a generic class of generative AI bots.

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U.K. and U.S. Agree to Collaborate on the Development of Safety Tests for AI Models

The U.K. government has formally agreed to work with the U.S. in developing safety tests for advanced AI models.

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The Tech Needed to Survive This Decade’s ‘Seismic’ APAC B2B Trends

From generative AI and virtual prototyping to the Internet of Things, blockchain and data analytics, Merkle has predicted that four shifts in the business-to-business market will shape tech buying appetites.

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Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company and what he’s excited about this year

It was a notable appearance because Pichai's been having a bit of a rough go lately. Google is widely perceived to have gotten a late start on generative AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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AI Deepfakes Rising as Risk for APAC Organisations

A cyber security expert from Tenable has called on large tech platforms to do more to identify AI deepfakes for users, while APAC organisations may need to include deepfakes in risk assessments.

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Introducing improvements to the fine-tuning API and expanding our custom models program

We’re adding new features to help developers have more control over fine-tuning and announcing new ways to build custom models with OpenAI.

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YC’s Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble

From AI-generated music and grant applications to neat new fintech applications and even some healthtech work, there was something for everyone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The 18 most interesting startups from YC’s Demo Day show we’re in an AI bubble

From AI-generated music and grant applications to neat new fintech applications and even some healthtech work, there was something for everyone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google Cloud/Cloud Security Alliance Report: IT and Security Pros Are ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About AI

Of the IT and security professionals surveyed, 63% said AI will improve security within their organization.

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A new computational technique could make it easier to engineer useful proteins

MIT researchers plan to search for proteins that could be used to measure electrical activity in the brain.

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3 UK Cyber Security Trends to Watch in 2024

Discover what industry experts think the events of Q1 mean for the business cyber security landscape in the UK.

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AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans, study finds

A group of scholars calculated the amount of energy used by AI tools for the tasks of writing and illustrating and compared it to the average amount of energy humans use for the same processes. Their results showed artificial intelligence results in hundreds of times less carbon emissions than humans. This does not mean, however, that AI can or should replace humans in those tasks, simply that its energy usage is less. The better approach is a partnership between humans and AI, the authors write.

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ChatGPT Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide for 2024

Get up and running with ChatGPT with this comprehensive cheat sheet. Learn everything from how to sign up for free to enterprise use cases, and start using ChatGPT quickly and effectively.

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Amazon Offers Free Generative AI and Machine Learning Courses

The 'AI Ready' initiative offers online classes for developers and other technical professionals on artificial intelligence and machine learning, in addition to Amazon’s cloud practitioner training resources.

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Start using ChatGPT instantly

We’re making it easier for people to experience the benefits of AI without needing to sign-up

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Does technology help or hurt employment?

Combing through 35,000 job categories in U.S. census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation.

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Most work is new work, long-term study of U.S. census data shows

The majority of U.S. jobs are in occupations that have emerged since 1940, MIT research finds — telling us much about the ways jobs are created and lost.

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The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help

As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to manipulate, there’s a need more than ever to make sure data and brands are verifiable, said Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and Time, on TechCrunch’s Chain Reaction podcast. “Not to get too cryptographically religious here, but we saw that during the FTX […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Researchers create “The Consensus Game” to elevate AI’s text comprehension and generation skills

MIT CSAIL researchers are using ideas from game theory to improve the reliability of language generation in language models.

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Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices

We’re sharing lessons from a small scale preview of Voice Engine, a model for creating custom voices.

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