Arjun Pillai, former chief data officer at ZoomInfo, raised $15M for his new startup DocketAI, a virtual sales engineer. He left ZoomInfo in August 2023 to launch the company, which aims to use generative AI to make technical sales faster and more effective. Pillai has a background in sales tech and has founded and sold two startups before.

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Tobi Olatunji, founder and CEO of clinical speech recognition startup Intron Health, aims to bridge the gap in voice recognition technology for minority languages, thick accents, and speech disorders. Intron Health has trained its algorithm on 3.5 million audio clips from 18,000 contributors, representing 29 countries and 288 accents, mainly from the healthcare sector.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, has automatically activated a setting that allows the company to train its Grok AI on users' posts. The setting can be switched off on the desktop version of the social network, but not through the mobile app. This means that X can utilize users' posts, interactions, inputs, and results for training and fine-tuning purposes, and may also share this data with its service provider xAI.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT, a text-generating AI chatbot, has grown rapidly since its launch in November 2022, with over 92% of Fortune 500 companies using it. The company has partnered with Apple for its upcoming generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence. OpenAI has also released GPT-4o, its new flagship omni model for ChatGPT, which is now the default free model with voice and vision capabilities.

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OpenAI has unveiled SearchGPT, a search feature that provides timely answers to questions, drawing from web sources. It is powered by OpenAI models, specifically GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and GPT-4o. The prototype is launching for a small group of users and publishers, with a waitlist available. OpenAI aims to challenge Google and Bing in the search game.

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Google has rolled out updates to the no-fee tier of Gemini, its AI-powered chatbot, making it more performant and widely available. The updates feature Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lightweight multimodal model available in 40 languages and 230 countries. The model delivers upgrades in quality and latency, with noticeable improvements in reasoning and image understanding. Google claims it may also be cheaper to run on the backend.

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Apple has signed the White House's voluntary commitment to developing safe, secure, and trustworthy AI. The company will launch its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, into its core products, making it available to its 2 billion users. Apple joins 15 other technology companies, including Amazon, Google, and Meta, that committed to the White House's ground rules for developing generative AI in July 2023. Apple will soon launch its generative AI offering, starting with a partnership that embeds ChatGPT in the iPhone.

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The Irish Data Protection Commission, a European privacy watchdog, expressed surprise over X's decision to default user data into its AI training pool for Grok, a conversational AI developed by Elon Musk-owned X. The move was spotted by users on Friday and allows anyone concerned to learn how to turn off the feature. X is awaiting a response from the watchdog after being followed up.

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Microsoft has introduced generative AI to Bing, making it available to a small percentage of users. The goal is to provide answers directly in search results, synthesizing information from multiple websites. For example, searching for 'what is a spaghetti western?' will yield an AI-generated summary of the genre's history and examples of films.

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