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Amazon Dreams of AI Agents That Do the Shopping for You

Amazon might not have ChatGPT, but it has a roadmap that includes developing even more advanced forms of artificial intelligence—including AI agents that are hell-bent on helping you buy stuff.The ecommerce company...

The OpenAI Talent Exodus Gives Rivals an Opening

When investors poured $6.6 billion into OpenAI last week, they seemed largely unbothered by the latest drama, which recently saw the company’s chief technology officer, Mira Murati, along with chief research officer...

Hacking Generative AI for Fun and Profit

You hardly need ChatGPT to generate a list of reasons why generative artificial intelligence is often less than awesome. The way algorithms are fed creative work often without permission, harbor nasty biases,...

Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office

Mustafa Suleyman was at the center of an artificial intelligence revolution once before.As a cofounder of DeepMind, a British company acquired by Google in 2014, he helped devise a new way for...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona

Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for a friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way out of the Recycle Bin. The...

Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice

Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Meta, his social-media-turned-metaverse-turned-artificial intelligence conglomerate, will upgrade its AI assistants to give them a range of celebrity voices, including those of Dame Judi Dench and John Cena....

The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents

The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on your computers for you.Released...

The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change

A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and governing artificial intelligence.The report, produced by the UN secretary general’s High Level...

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