IT総合 Sign or veto: What’s next for California’s AI disaster bill, SB 1047?
The tech industry has responded with a resounding outcry against SB 1047.
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IT総合 IT総合 Top court orders ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil
A top court in Brazil ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the X platform on Friday after a months-long lega...
IT総合 California’s legislature just passed AI bill SB 1047; here’s why some hope the governor won’t sign it
SB 1047 has drawn the ire of Silicon Valley players large and small, including venture capitalists, big tech trade group...
IT総合 Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
Gmail users on Android devices can now chat directly with Google’s AI assistant, Gemini, about their emails in the...
IT総合 It’s not just you: Reddit is down
Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outa...
IT総合 Reddit back online after a software update took it down
Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outa...
IT総合 SEC takes aim at NFT marketplace OpenSea
OpenSea, which calls itself the “world’s largest” nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, received a Well...
IT総合 OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft support California bill requiring watermarks on AI content
OpenAI, Adobe and Microsoft have thrown their support behind a California bill requiring tech companies to label AI-gene...
IT総合 OpenAI supports California bill requiring watermarks on AI content
OpenAI threw its support behind a California bill requiring tech companies to label AI-generated content, according to a...
IT総合 Five months after Microsoft hired its founders, Inflection adds usage caps to Pi
Inflection will cap free access to its AI chatbot Pi in the coming months, the startup tells TechCrunch. Users can also ...
IT総合 Viggle makes controllable AI characters for memes and visualizing ideas
You might not know Viggle AI, but you’ve likely seen the viral memes it created. The Canadian AI startup is respon...
IT総合 ‘Disappointed but not surprised’: former employees speak on OpenAI’s opposition to SB 1047
Two former OpenAI researchers who resigned this year over safety concerns say they are disappointed but not surprised by...
IT総合 OpenAI’s opposition to California’s AI bill ‘makes no sense,’ says state Senator
OpenAI broke its silence on California’s most controversial AI bill on Tuesday, officially expressing opposition i...
IT総合 Skyfire lets AI agents spend your money
There’s a lot of hype about the promise of AI agents today, but payments are a huge limiting factor. Today, an AI ...
IT総合 What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder
OpenAI and Anthropic spend billions of dollars a year training models like GPT-4 and Claude, but competitive price dumpi...
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...
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 ...