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☆ Apple wants to put a friendlier spin on artificial intelligence, but many users could miss out
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at all the takeaways from Apple's big event , including its friendlier spin on artificial intelligence . Related VideoBut first, it's not AI; it's Apple Intelligence. Apple Intelligence — it's AI, just not that AI — is the company's first big swing in the space. Data is the name of the game when it comes to AI, and Apple's iPhones are full of it. However, the Apple Intelligence news and partnership with OpenAI is what really set the billionaire off.

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☆ Why OpenAI should fear a Scarlett Johansson lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“It doesn’t matter if OpenAI used any of Scarlett Johansson’s actual voice samples,” Li posted on Threads. Here, Johansson could accuse OpenAI of illegally monetizing who she is by essentially fooling users into thinking she had voiced Sky. But there’s substantial case law — and one very inconvenient fact for OpenAI — undercutting that defense, legal experts say. According to Johansson, OpenAI approached her to perform as Sky; Johansson declined. While California’s publicity law protects all individuals, some state statutes only protect famous people, and not all states have such legislation on the books.

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☆ Microsoft, Khan Academy provide free AI assistant for all educators in US
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-21 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft is partnering with tutoring organization Khan Academy to provide a generative AI assistant to all teachers in the U.S. for free. Khanmigo for Teachers, which helps teachers prepare lessons for class, is free to all educators in the U.S. as of Tuesday, with the financial support of Microsoft. Microsoft and Khan Academy are also planning to provide more AI-powered math tutoring to students through a new open-source small language model from Microsoft's Phi-3 AI technology. The relationship between the tech giant and education nonprofit will also feed back into Microsoft's Copilot AI, with more Khan Academy content added, and Khan content brought into Microsoft Teams for Education, an existing free communication app for students and teachers. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently recommended Khan's new book on AI in education.

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☆ More OpenAI chaos puts Sam Altman on the back foot
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementIt's a rare admission from Altman, who has worked hard to cultivate an image of being relatively calm amid OpenAI's ongoing chaos. Safety team implosionOpenAI has been in full damage control mode following the exit of key employees working on AI safety. He said the safety team was left "struggling for compute, and it was getting harder and harder to get this crucial research done." Silenced employeesThe implosion of the safety team is a blow for Altman, who has been keen to show he's safety-conscious when it comes to developing super-intelligent AI. The usually reserved Altman even appeared to shade Google, which demoed new AI products the following day.

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☆ Google shows off how AI Gmail, Photos and shopping will work
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Samantha Murphy Kelly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A day after OpenAI impressed with a startlingly improved ChatGPT AI model, Google showed off its vision for how AI will improve the products that billions of people use every day. Google showed how it wants its AI products to become a bigger part of users’ lives by sharing information, interacting with others, finding objects around the house, making schedules, shopping and using an Android device. Simply put, Google wants its AI to be part of everything you do. Google CEO Sundar Pichai showed off various new features powered by its latest AI model Gemini 1.5 Pro. One new feature, called Ask Photos, allows users to search photos for deeper insights, such as asking when your daughter learned to swim or recall what your license plate number is, by looking through saved pictures.

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☆ It might be time to rethink the smartphone — for real this time
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Why do phones need apps? At this year's Mobile World Congress, the future of the smartphone and how we connect were firmly under the microscope. Deutsche Telekom and Brain.ai demoed one such instance at MWC: a smartphone with no apps. It's just an idea for now, but it's prompting an interesting question: Why assume the smartphone of the future has apps at all? But the smartphone industry is slumping, and there's a "need to invigorate the upgrade cycle," Milanesi told BI.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg is becoming Meta's ultimate influencer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Zuck has been using his platforms to demo Meta's products, including the company's AI glasses. In a video posted late last year, he used Meta's AI Ray-Bans to guide him through braiding his daughter's hair. Zuckerberg posted a video reviewing Apple's new mixed-reality headset, perhaps unsurprisingly deciding Meta's $500 Quest headset was superior. The billionaire has also taken to criticizing Apple's headset on other social media platforms and behind closed doors in private meetings. In a post on Threads last week, Zuckerberg said if Meta's Quest is like the Vision Pro in five years, "we'll have regressed significantly."

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☆ As AI takes hold of your smartphone, the end of the app era could be in sight
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Smartphone makers flooded Mobile World Congress to show off new AI features. More AI tools are moving on to devices, which would make them faster and cheaper to run. Now, as the industry looks to capitalize on the AI boom and galvanize a stagnating mobile market, phone makers want the AI tools to run locally on the phone itself. The company attended MWC to tout how it's helping phone makers such as Samsung and Honor run more AI tools on their phones. Samsung was also there, previewing some of the AI tools it's begun to roll out on its phones, including a nifty live-translation feature.

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☆ Meta aims to reveal and demo Orion, its first true AR glasses, during its fall developer conference
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Meta plans to show off years of work on new augmented reality glasses during its developer conference this year. While the AR glasses will not be for sale to the public after the reveal, a handful of employees are already experimenting with advanced prototypes, one of the people noted. The AR glasses are a separate product from Meta's better-known Ray-Ban smart glasses and Quest headsets. He posted a photo to Threads earlier this month showing several versions of Meta glasses on his desk. So far, Meta's AR glasses are costly to produce, much less sell at retail.

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☆ 5 Vision Pro party tricks that'll show friends what Apple's new gadget can do
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewI've had Apple's Vision Pro for over a week now, and it's been the topic of conversation among my friends. And it turns out, with the right party tricks, the Vision Pro can be something that's fun for everyone, even people who are waiting their turn to try it out. My FaceTime PersonaMy Persona earned laughs from my loved ones when I called them in the Vision Pro. While FaceTime looks normal for me while I'm wearing the Vision Pro, the person on the other end of the line isn't seeing my real face with the Vision Pro covering my eyes. The Encounter Dinosaurs appAn image of "Encountering Dinosaurs" on the Vision Pro.

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☆ These Apple Vision Pro buyers are returning their headsets — and this is why
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewWhen the Apple Vision Pro hit the market on February 2nd, would-be fans lined up at the break of dawn to test the mixed-reality headset at their local Apple Stores. One major reason Vision Pro customers say they want a refund: its seemingly clunky design. Some Redditors who claim to be returning the Vision Pro also referenced how uncomfortable it is to wear the headset. Disappointment in the headset's vision quality is another gripe expressed by Vision Pro customers. AdvertisementThat is, if the Vision Pro ever gets cheaper.

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☆ Don't forget your Apple Vision Pro password or else
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewDid you forget the passcode to your Apple Vision Pro? "Is there a method to reset the Vision Pro when the login password is forgotten?" Apple didn't immediately respond when asked if a future software update would allow Vision Pro users to reset their passcode on their own. These issues with the Vision Pro appear to be the first ones that have come to light since Apple's splashy release. AdvertisementAround 200,000 Vision Pro headsets were reportedly sold when preorders opened in mid-January.

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☆ Elon Musk might be right. Chinese EV firms could 'demolish' their US rivals.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk warned Chinese EV firms could "demolish" rivals like Tesla without trade barriers. AdvertisementA decade ago, Elon Musk laughed off the threat posed by Chinese electric carmaker BYD . "The Chinese car companies are the most competitive car companies in the world," Musk told investors during Tesla's Q4 earnings call. I think the Chinese companies are more willing to take risks and gamble with something and see how it goes," he said. Something else that may stop Chinese EV companies from overrunning the US market with cheap models is range.

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☆ The Apple Vision Pro is blowing users away during their demos. But there's one issue.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

🥹🥹🥹 what a day can’t believe Vision Pro is out pic.twitter.com/p0JCkuZ7Z1 — Linda Dong 🥽 (@lindadong) February 2, 2024The excitement grew as Apple Store visitors tried the Vision Pro. AdvertisementWent to Apple Store to do the Vision Pro demo and I can’t articulate what exactly I just saw. @peach.mcintyre COME WITH PEACH 🍑 TO THE APPLE STORE TO DO A FREE DEMO OF THE APPLE VISION PRO: APPLE PRO REVIEW ♬ original sound - Peach.McIntyreBut not everyone expressed total enthusiasm for the headset. Opinions on the weight of the Apple Vision Pro — which some early testers complained crushed their face — varied. Whether or not those who demoed the Vision Pro in-store ended up purchasing their own, customer interest in Apple's flashy product seems to be strong.

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☆ Leaked presentation reveals how Microsoft built one of its top AI products, from cherry picking outputs to pitching government clients
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

GPU supply problemsOriginally, Microsoft was working on its own machine-learning models for security use cases, according to the presentation by Microsoft Security Research partner Lloyd Greenwald. AdvertisementThe pitchThe pitch centered around the benefits of mostly using a single universal AI model rather than many individual models. "Today, our Early Access Program customers regularly share their satisfaction with the latest version of Security Copilot." He also mentioned ServiceNow connectors, and information from Microsoft Defender, the company's antivirus software, along with other sources of security data. It described Security Copilot as a "closed-loop learning system," that gets feedback from users and improves over time.

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☆ Ending the 40-hour workweek is possible, but it'll require sacrifices from all of us
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . In today's big story, we're looking at the internet calling for changes to the "soul-crushing" and "depressing" 9-to-5 workday. The 40-hour workweek is facing a reckoning after a recent grad's viral TikTok emotionally questioning how people have time for a personal life while working a full-time job. AdvertisementAdvertisementSo yes, upending the 9-to-5 is possible — and worth considering — but only with a bit of sacrifice from all of us. Earnings today: Uber, eBay, H&R Block, Nintendo, and other companies.

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☆ Is Sam Altman bad at typing? A short investigation.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In the keynote of OpenAI's DevDay event, CEO Sam Altman demoed ChatGPT's new custom GPT feature. Is it possible Sam Altman needs Mavis Beacon? AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI held its DevDay conference on Monday, with CEO Sam Altman giving a highly-anticipated keynote address in the wake of its huge success with ChatGPT. As Altman typed into the ChatGPT box, he made … typos. I recognize my own kind, and I smell it all over Sam Altman: He's a bad typist.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is reportedly 'afraid of Apple' right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Meta worker told Bloomberg the company is in the "'afraid of Apple' stage." Zuckerberg has pointed out that Apple's headset will be far more expensive than Meta's. "We're in the 'afraid of Apple' stage," one Meta worker told Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Apple is positioning its Vision Pro as a productivity and entertainment device first and foremost, with gaming as more of an added bonus. The Meta Quest 3, priced at a fraction of Apple's Vision Pro, launches October 10.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg agreed it could be possible to use the Metaverse to bring back the dead virtually
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Mark Zuckerberg recently demoed his humanlike VR avatars in an interview in the Metaverse. In a recent interview with podcaster Lex Fridman, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed the future possibilities of VR and the Metaverse. During the interview, which took place in the Metaverse, Fridman said: "I would love to talk to people who are no longer here that are loved ones. Meta has struggled to maintain consumer and investor interest in its Metaverse after being hyped as the next big thing. Reality Labs, the division that handles metaverse work, lost nearly $14 billion in 2022 and was hit by layoffs.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg just previewed Meta's new VR avatars – and they don't suck
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Zuckerberg showed off Meta's new photorealistic VR avatars in his first "Metaverse interview." Zuckerberg was mocked on social media last year for posting a selfie of his cartoonish VR avatar. AdvertisementAdvertisementMark Zuckerberg has demoed Meta's brand new photorealistic avatars, and they are scarily lifelike. And unlike the company's original Metaverse avatars , which were mocked for being legless, dead-eyed, and deeply disconcerting, these projections are extremely realistic. The photorealistic projections are a dramatic improvement over the cartoonish avatars used for Horizon Worlds, Meta's free VR gaming and social platform.

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☆ Mark Zuckerberg unveils new AI assistants embodied by celebs like Tom Brady and Kendall Jenner that have individual personalities
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Many of the AI assistants resemble celebrities including Kendall Jenner and Tom Brady. Meta's AI assistants will be able to act as an older sister, opinionated sports debater, and a golf instructor. Enter the celebsMany of the AI assistants even have celebrity personas that can talk and sound similar to them. AdvertisementAdvertisementMeta's other AI assistants are played by celebrities like Tom Brady, Kendall Jenner, Naomi Osaka, Chris Paul, Charli D'Amelio, Israel Adesanya, and Roy Choi. AdvertisementAdvertisementZuckerberg said the AI assistants will begin rolling out in beta on Wednesday, ramping up to a wider release in the coming days.

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☆ Google and the Department of Defense are building an AI-powered microscope to help doctors spot cancer
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Zafar turned to his microscope – a canonically beloved tool in pathology that the doctors rely on to help make their diagnoses. It's an artificial intelligence-powered microscope built by Google and the U.S. Department of Defense. The AI-powered tool is called an Augmented Reality Microscope, or ARM, and Google and the Department of Defense have been quietly working on it for years. When a glass slide is prepared and fixed under the microscope, the AI is able to outline where cancer is located. For many smaller health systems, digitization is not yet worth the hassle.

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☆ Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' the original concept, according to the new Elon Musk biography
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Grace Kay | Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Tesla engineers "hated" the look of the Cybertruck, design chief Franz von Holzhausen told Walter Isaacson. Certain engineers secretly worked on a alternate version, Isaacson wrote in his new book on Elon Musk. "A majority of the people in this studio hated it," von Holzhausen said of the futuristic design, according to the book. Musk, von Holzhausen, and a spokesperson for Tesla did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication. Those who have pre-ordered the vehicle with a $100 deposit have been nitpicking the final version of the Cybertruck.

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☆ Meta and Qualcomm team up to run big A.I. models on phones
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Kif Leswing | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But the AI boom has largely missed the companies that make leading edge processors for phones and PCs, like Qualcomm. The announcement on Tuesday suggests that Qualcomm wants to position its processors as well-suited for A.I. If large language models can run on phones instead of in large data centers, it could push down the significant cost of running A.I. Qualcomm will make Meta's open-source Llama 2 models available on Qualcomm devices, which it believes will enable applications like intelligent virtual assistants. Doing this will allow researchers and eventually commercial enterprises to use the AI models on their own computers without asking permission or paying.

Persons: Cristiano Amon, OpenAI's, Bard Organizations: Qualcomm, Milken Institute Global Conference, Calif, Meta, Nvidia Locations: Beverly Hills

☆ Google's top AI researchers, including all the authors behind a landmark paper, have left for competitors. Here's where they are now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Thomas Maxwell | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Top AI researchers have been leaving for startups where their work can have more impact. That frustration over Google's slow movement has been corroborated by other former Google researchers who spoke to Insider. Niki Parmar left Google Brain after five years to serve as a cofounder and CTO of Adept, though in November, she left to found a stealth startup. Lukasz Kaiser left Google Brain after working there for more than seven years to join OpenAI in 2021. Sharan Narang, another contributor to the T5 paper, left Google Brain in 2022 after four years there.

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