Google is expanding its AI-powered search summaries to six new countries, including India, Brazil, Japan, the UK, Indonesia, and Mexico. The company is also adding local language support for AI overviews and rethinking how it displays source material links. Users will be able to tap on icons to visit links cited in an AI overview and read more on the topic.
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California's Appropriations Committee passed SB 1047 with amendments on August 15. The bill aims to prevent AI discrimination and is headed for a final vote in the state's senate later in August. Silicon Valley players, including venture capitalists, big tech trade groups, researchers, and startup founders, have expressed opposition to the bill.
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Primate Labs released Geekbench AI 1.0, a benchmarking app for machine learning, deep learning, and other AI workloads. The app is available for Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. It's a successor to Geekbench ML, which was announced in 2021 and is currently on version 0.6.
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CodeRabbit, a company co-founded by Harjot Gill and Gur Singh, has raised $16M to automate code reviews using AI models. The company's AI analyzes code to provide feedback, aiming to reduce the time-consuming process of code reviews. Prior to starting CodeRabbit, Gill was the senior director of technology at Nutanix, and Singh led dev teams at Alegeus.
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OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that generated AI-generated content about the US presidential election. This is not the first time OpenAI has banned accounts linked to state-affiliated actors using ChatGPT maliciously, with five campaigns disrupted in May.
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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is filing a lawsuit to take down 16 popular 'undressing' sites that use AI technology to create fake nude images from clothed photos. These sites have the potential for unlimited abuse and are considered reprehensible. The lawsuit aims to make this application of AI technology riskier for the perpetrators.
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WeRide, a Chinese autonomous vehicle startup, is seeking an initial public offering in the United States at a $5 billion valuation. The company has also received permission to test its driverless vehicles with passengers in California. EliseAI, a 7-year-old company, has raised $75 million in a Series D funding round and has become a unicorn. EliseAI's chatbots assist renters with tasks such as apartment tours, maintenance requests, and lease renewals.
AIWeRide | Rating: 37 | 2024-08-20 09:15:32 AM |
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi criticized California bill SB 1047, which regulates AI, calling it 'ill-informed'. She was joined by other Bay Area congresspeople, including Zoe Lofgren, Anna Eshoo, and Ro Khanna, who expressed concerns about the bill. The bill was amended to address critics' concerns, including AI company Anthropic, and is now headed to California's Assembly for a vote.
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OpenAI has introduced Advanced Voice Mode, a new feature that allows users to talk with their devices, including iPhones, in a more natural and friendly way. The feature is currently in a limited alpha test and does not make ChatGPT smarter, but rather creates a new interface for using AI and devices. The product was found to be glitchy, but users enjoyed using it.
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Microsoft has developed a range of AI-powered products under the Copilot brand, including a tool for generating code on GitHub, a general-purpose assistant on Windows and the web, and various other capabilities in Microsoft software and services. These products are part of Microsoft's ambitions to integrate AI into its offerings. There are around a dozen Copilot-branded products currently available, with features such as summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams.
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