ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

OpenAI and Anthropic sign deals with the U.S. government that would allow the latter to evaluate AI models.

Google on Tuesday unveiled new Pixel 9 smartphones, its latest salvo in the scramble by Big Tech to corner the market on nascent artificial intelligence. The Silicon Valley search giant has been racing against Microsoft, OpenAI and others to lead in AI since the 2022 release of ChatGPT ignited intense interest in the technology.

US tech giants saw their shares fluctuate this week as investors tried to gauge whether artificial intelligence will fill coffers or drain them. Apple and Amazon on Thursday were the latest titans to see quarterly earnings scrutinized over how their core businesses are doing and whether cloud and AI strategies are paying off.

Yum Brands has announced that it plans to expand the rollout of artificial intelligence technology in the U.S. as part of its global strategy.

The EU earlier this year adopted the world's first sweeping rules to govern AI, especially powerful systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT after difficult and tense negotiations.

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Sect leaders from major Eastern religions on Wednesday signed on to a Vatican-led code for AI ethics that also includes major tech companies at a ceremony in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Between 2014 and 2023, China filed more than 38,000 generative AI inventions. The U.S., over the same period, filed only 6,276.

Chipmakers, in particular, have benefited from the AI-centric market. One of those chipmakers is Nvidia, which briefly overtook Microsoft to become the most valuable company in the world.

Both the tech-rich Nasdaq and the broad-based S&P 500 pushed to all-time closing highs.

The world's favourite French misanthrope writer Michel Houellebecq is too controversial for the world's new AI tools, which find his views so offensive that they cannot be repeated.

AI is reshaping industries with unprecedented speed and democratizing access to complex information and analysis that was previously only accessible to large corporations.

Musk has claimed that he will be able to make Tesla into an AI & robotics leader, and that this will require thousands of processors from NVIDIA in order for the required infrastructure to be built.

With its predictive capabilities, AI can introduce a new level of personalization and timely interaction, leading to more accurate disease diagnosis and more effective treatment, according to industry experts.

Google on Friday said it is taking "swift action" to improve AI summaries of search results, after users mocked blunders like Barack Obama being the first Muslim US president.

The tech giant will be launching a "more controversial" version of Alexa in the present year. Perhaps, it would be competing with other tech giants who have their own AI-powered chatbots.

The EU has identified generative artificial intelligence as one of the main threats to elections being held across the 27-country bloc June 6-9.

The new model GPT-4o -- the "O" stands for omni -- will be rolled out in OpenAI's products over the next few weeks, the company said, with paid customers having unlimited access to the tool.

South Korean semiconductor giant SK Hynix said Friday its entire 2024 production of high-end memory chips was sold out and most of next year's line was gone too, reflecting the huge demand for cutting-edge AI hardware.

The lawsuit filed by eight newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, is focused on the usage of ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot assistant, which are integrated into various Microsoft products such as the Windows operating system and the Bing search engine.

AI will redefine traditional banking, making it more efficient, secure, and innovative. AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants will streamline the front office, personalize customer service, and improve banks' top and bottom lines, experts said.