IT総合 OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it
I’ve been playing around with OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode for the last week, and it’s the most convin...
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IT総合 IT総合 OpenAI shuts down election influence operation using ChatGPT
OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to an Iranian influence operation that was generating content abo...
IT総合 California weakens bill to prevent AI disasters before final vote, taking advice from Anthropic
California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon ...
IT総合 Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has v...
IT総合 Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition
Analytics and AI giant Databricks reportedly paid nearly $2 billion when it acquired Tabular in June, a startup that was...
IT総合 Gemini Live first look: Better than talking to Siri, but worse than I’d like
Google launched Gemini Live during its Made By Google event in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. The feature allows...
IT総合 California AI bill SB 1047 aims to prevent AI disasters, but Silicon Valley warns it will cause one
Outside of sci-fi films, there’s no precedent for AI systems killing people or being used in cyber attacks. Howeve...
IT総合 Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s X Spaces event crashes
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s joint X Spaces event appears to have crashed Monday afternoon. The conversation betwe...
IT総合 Intel to lay off 15,000 employees
Intel announced it would layoff more than 15% of its staff, or 15,000 employees, in a memo to employees on Thursday. The...
IT総合 Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search
Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as par...
IT総合 Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups
Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing uni...
IT総合 Bungie employees say they were caught off-guard by 17% staff reduction
Bungie, the gaming company that created sci-fi hits such as Halo, Destiny, and Marathon, has laid off 220 employees, rou...
IT総合 OpenAI endorses Senate bills that could shape America’s AI policy
A lot of AI bills are flying around Congress these days, and OpenAI is throwing its weight behind some of them. OpenAI e...
IT総合 OpenAI releases ChatGPT’s hyper-realistic voice to some paying users
OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on Tuesday, giving users their first access to GPT-4o’...
IT総合 Meta will pay Texas $1.4B in settlement over facial recognition software
Meta agrees to pay the state of Texas $1.4 billion over five years, and the first payment of $500 million is due in the ...
IT総合 Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety
Apple joins 15 other tech companies — including Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — that committed to the White House's...
IT総合 Mistral’s Large 2 is its answer to Meta and OpenAI’s latest models
For frontier AI models, when it rains, it pours. Mistral released a fresh new flagship model on Wednesday, Large 2, whic...
IT総合 Colin Kaepernick lost control of his story. Now he wants to help creators own theirs
Thousands of stories have been written about former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick. If anyon...
IT総合 Adobe releases new Firefly AI tools for Illustrator and Photoshop
Adobe released new Firefly tools for Photoshop and Illustrator on Tuesday, offering graphic designers more ways to use t...
IT総合 These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs
The global outage is a perfect reminder how much of the world relies on technological infrastructure.
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IT総合 Fandango founder dies in fall from Manhattan skyscraper
J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango and multiple other startups over his multi-decade career, died after fallin...
IT総合 OpenAI unveils GPT-4o mini, a small AI model powering ChatGPT
OpenAI introduced GPT-4o mini on Thursday, its latest small AI model. The company says GPT-4o mini, which is cheaper and...
IT総合 Artificial Agency raises $16M to use AI to make NPCs feel more realistic in video games
A team of former Google DeepMind researchers are betting that their unique behavior engine for NPCs will make games more...
IT総合 Ethereum co-founder’s warning against ‘pro-crypto’ candidates: ‘are they in it for the right reasons?’
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, issued a warning on Wednesday against choosing a candidate purely based on ...
IT総合 Anthropic releases Claude app for Android
Anthropic launched its Claude Android app on Tuesday to bring its AI chatbot to more users. This is Anthropic’s la...
IT総合 Apple’s public betas for iOS 18 are here to test out
Apple released the public betas for its next generation of software on the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch on Monday....
IT総合 Meta removes special restrictions for Trump’s account ahead of 2024 elections
Meta announced former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will no longer be subject to height...
IT総合 Waymo cameras capture footage of person charged in alleged robotaxi tire slashings
A Castro Valley resident was charged Thursday for allegedly slashing the tires of 17 Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco be...
IT総合 Waymo cameras capture footage of man charged in alleged robotaxi tire slashings
A San Francisco man was charged Thursday for allegedly slashing the tires of 17 Waymo robotaxis between June 24 and June...
IT総合 Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules
Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, followi...