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The election is a big test for AI companies
  + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
AI companies have been adjusting their election offerings and guidelines ahead of Election Day. Perplexity launched an Election Information Hub with information on candidates, voting logistics, and results. Related VideoThe AI search engine launched a dedicated "Election Information Hub" that uses AI to provide information about the upcoming election and results tracking. While the live election updates may be helpful to users, AI-generated election content poses a number of risks. AdvertisementGoogle , which experienced some highly publicized AI fails with its Gemini AI and AI Overviews, chose to implement constraints on what users can ask its AI products about the election.
Persons: Perplexity, , Sara Platnick, Platnick, Perplexity Alon Yamin, Yamin, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Anthropic, Brad Carson, it's, Carson Organizations: Google, Service, Business, Associated Press, Democracy, Reuters, Innovation
Altman also emphasized saying no, echoing Steve Jobs' leadership philosophy. AdvertisementThe leadership traits that Sam Altman values may sound familiar to those who have studied Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett. Altman said the team tries to be "rigorous" about straying away from "fantastical dreams" or goals — a strategy reminiscent of the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Advertisement"The main thing I stressed was focus," Jobs had said about his visit to Larry Page, biographer Walter Isaacson wrote in the Harvard Business Review. "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," the Berkshire Hathaway CEO once said.
Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, , Kevin Weil, Jobs, Larry Page, Walter Isaacson, Apple's, Jerry Yang, Insider's Nicholas Carlson, Marissa Mayer, — that's, Alman, Sora Organizations: Service, Apple, Harvard Business, Yahoo, Stanford University, Conference, Berkshire Hathaway Locations: Hollywood
Physical Intelligence, a robot startup based in San Francisco, has raised $400 million at a $2.4 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed Monday to CNBC. Investors included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital and Lux Capital, a Physical Intelligence spokesperson said. Physical Intelligence's new valuation is about six times that of its March seed round, which reportedly came in at $70 million with a $400 million valuation. Physical Intelligence hopes that model will be the first step toward its ultimate goal of developing artificial general intelligence. In case studies, Physical Intelligence details how its tech could allow a robot to do laundry, bus tables or assemble a box.
Persons: Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Microsoft's Bing Organizations: Economic, Amazon, Change, Physical Intelligence, CNBC, Investors, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tesla, Google, Intelligence Locations: Davos, Switzerland, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, San Francisco, ChatGPT
Jeff Bezos just invested in an artificial intelligence startup creating digital brains for robots. Videos from the company show robots folding laundry, bussing tables, and assembling boxes. At Physical Intelligence (π) our mission is to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world. Physical Intelligence, a representative for Bezos, and the other VC firms reportedly in the funding round did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. OpenAI and Microsoft have invested in humanoid robot startup Figure AI.
Persons: Jeff Bezos, Organizations: Service, Physical Intelligence, Amazon, Lux Capital, The New York Times, Business
Sam Altman says he prioritizes talent over age in his hiring decisions. The job market in Big Tech is increasingly polarized with many job seekers facing a bleak outlook. AdvertisementOpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his hiring strategy is focused on talent over age. Advertisement"You want both, and I think what you really want is just like an extremely high talent bar of people at any age, " Altman said. While Altman may prioritize talent over age at OpenAI, some older tech employees say they are experiencing ageism in the workforce.
Persons: Sam Altman, , Harry Stebbings's, Altman, wouldn't, Noam Shazeer, Mustafa Suleyman, Karen Simonyan, Zers Organizations: Big Tech, Service, Tech, Google, Microsoft, BI Locations: OpenAI
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said tech firms lack transparancy about their AI hallucination rates. Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy said AI companies would benefit from making it clear just how often that happens. Some tech moguls have defended AI hallucinations, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who said that AI models that only answered when absolutely certain would lose their "magic." Anthropic cofounder Jared Kaplan said earlier this year that the end goal is AI models that don't hallucinate, but occasional chatbot errors are a necessary "tradeoff" for users. AdvertisementBaris Gultekin, Snowflake's head of AI, told Business Insider in a statement that AI hallucinations are the "biggest blocker" for generative AI to front-end users.
Persons: Sridhar Ramaswamy, , Snowflake, Logan Bartlett, Ramaswamy, Sam Altman, Altman, Jared Kaplan, OpenAI, Baris, it's, Gultekin, Claude, ChatGPT Organizations: Service, Google, AIs
Insider Today: Big Tech battle royale
  + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Matt Turner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On the agenda today:Related Video How Twitter panic took down Silicon Valley BankBut first: Takeaways from a big week in Big Tech. All about AI, all the timeGetty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIThe trillion-dollar giants of Big Tech reported earnings this week, beating estimates and committing billions to AI. The disappearing tech freebiesMint Images - David Arky/Getty, masterzphotois/Getty, Tyler Le/BIAfter years of upping the ante with everything from exercise classes to laundry services, tech companies are clamping down on freebies.
Persons: , we'll, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Sundar Pichai, execs, Mark Zuckerberg, Natalie Ammari, Tesla, James Yates, David Arky, Tyler Le, BI's Graham Flanagan, Matt Garman Organizations: Business, Service, Big, Big Tech, Apple Apple, underwhelmed, Apple Intelligence, Meta Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft Microsoft, United States Army, Amazon Locations: Big Tech, China, Italy, Spain, New Zealand, Hawaii
"Dealing with social anxiety can be challenging, but there are several approaches that might help," the bot responded. "Cathy represents our innovative approach to leveraging technology in support of spiritual exploration," says Rev. Lorenzo Lebrija, the founding director of TryTank and an Episcopal priest. But they've designed it to help spiritual seekers talk about subjects they feel "vulnerable or defensive" about. John Brandon is a journalist who has published over 15,000 articles on social media, technology, leadership, mentoring, and many other topics.
Persons: Cathy, It's, Lorenzo Lebrija, Lebrija, Andrew Doyle, Jesus, Chatbot Eli, Gita GPT, Father Justin, they've, Elon Musk, Joshua K, Smith, I'm Cathy, Sam Altman, Thomas Telving, Richard Zhang, I've, , Rev, Doyle, Telving, John Brandon Organizations: TryTank Research, Episcopal, Episcopal Church, of, Gatorade, Google Locations: of Texas
Brundage was a key figure in AGI research at OpenAI. He was also responsible for some of OpenAI's biggest safety research innovations, including external red teaming, which involves bringing outside experts to look for potential problems in the company's products. AdvertisementBrundage said his departure, at least, was not motivated by specific safety concerns. "I'm pretty confident that there's no other lab that is totally on top of things," he told Hard Fork. He told Hard Fork that he still stands by the decision and elaborated on why he left.
Persons: Miles Brundage, OpenAI, Brundage, , we're, John Schulman, AGI, Dario Amodei, Anthropic Organizations: Service, AGI
AdvertisementWhen Morgan Stanley and OpenAI announced their blockbuster partnership at the beginning of 2023, it signaled a competitive advantage for the Wall Street bank. Morgan Stanley, since then, has co-developed a handful of generative AI tools with the AI powerhouse for its lucrative wealth-management business. Morgan Stanley is far from the only financial firm using OpenAI. In his new role, Manahan oversees the bank's innovation council, which launched at the beginning of the year. The council is dedicated to identifying the bank's technology focuses.
Persons: Sean Manahan, Morgan Stanley's, , Morgan Stanley, OpenAI, Andy Saperstein, Jeff McMillan, Manahan, Morgan Stanley execs Organizations: Service, York, Tech, Big Tech, Morgan Locations: Silicon Valley, Manhattan, Manahan, New York
Nvidia will be replacing Intel in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the past several years, it has fallen from grace, failing to jump on the AI train in time. The S&P Dow Jones Indices said Friday that Nvidia will replace Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a blue-chip index intended to project the most relevant picture of the US economy. Habana helped launch Intel's next-generation Gaudi AI chip for businesses this year. AdvertisementEven if Qualcomm acquired Intel, it's unclear what it would do with Intel's manufacturing operations.
Persons: , Dow, Pat Gelsinger, Stacy Rasgon, Paul Otellini, Otellini, OpenAI, Habana, Intel's, Gaudi, Rasgon, Bryan Catanzaro, Logan Purk, Edward Jones, nipping, Purk, TSMC, Dan Morgan, Morgan Organizations: Intel, Nvidia, Dow Jones, Qualcomm, Service, VMware, Bernstein Research, Apple, Reuters, Microsoft, Systems, Habana Labs, Companies, AMD, Samsung, Wall Street, Apollo Global Management, Bloomberg, Broadcom, Biden Locations: Arizona, Ohio, Nervana, Synovus
CEO Sam Altman explained the company's shift to closed AI models in a Reddit AMA on Thursday. AdvertisementWhy doesn't OpenAI open-source the AI models behind ChatGPT if the company is called OpenAI? Altman responded that open source "plays an important role in the ecosystem and there are great open source models in the world." The comments from Altman follow a year in which OpenAI has received criticism for no longer open-sourcing its AI models. "There is no single open source AI definition, and defining it is a challenge because previous open source definitions do not encompass the complexities of today's rapidly advancing AI models," the spokesperson said.
Persons: OpenAI, Sam Altman, , Altman, Elon Musk, ChatGPT, Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's GPT Organizations: Service, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, OSI
Intel’s getting kicked out of the Dow
  + stars: | 2024-11-01 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Intel’s shares (INTC) have declined 54% this year, making it the worst performer on the index and leaving it with the lowest stock price on the price-weighted Dow. The stock fell about 1% in extended trading on Friday, while Nvidia (NVDA) was up 1.5%. Launched in 1968, the Silicon Valley pioneer sold memory chips before switching to processors that helped launch the personal computer industry. In the 1990s, “Intel Inside” stickers turned commodity electronic components into premium products and eventually became ubiquitous on laptops. The company’s 10-for-one stock split in June also helped pave the way for its addition to the index, making its soaring shares more accessible to retail traders.
Persons: Dow, TSMC, OpenAI Organizations: CNN, Intel, Dow Jones, Nvidia Locations: chipmaking, ChatGPT
Shifting to a skills-first hiring approach diversifies talent pools and improves job matching, helping find the best candidates for the job. AI tools like Indeed Smart Sourcing can help put the focus on candidates' skills to streamline sourcing and reduce hiring time. Amid rapid technological advancement across industries, employers' hiring needs are changing, requiring them to bring the right talent on board quickly. The skills-first hiring approach can also ultimately help employers reduce both the time and costs associated with hiring, especially when supported by AI. As hiring needs continue to evolve, making the hiring process easier with AI helps companies better plan and staff for the future.
Persons: Donal McMahon, Chris Hyams Organizations: Employers, Harvard, Insider Studios
Decisions I would normally agonize over, like travel logistics or whether to scuttle dinner plans because my mother-in-law wants to visit, A.I. Letting your mother-in-law cook can be a great idea, especially if she enjoys it and it gives you a break. And it made good decisions, such as advising me to be nice to my mother-in-law and accept her offer to cook for us. (Generative A.I. Just as we’ve outsourced our sense of direction to mapping apps, and our ability to recall facts to search engines, this explosion of A.I.
Persons: ChatGPT, I’d, couldn’t, Taupe ”, Chive, didn’t, Ms, Jang, , Judith Donath, Harvard’s Berkman Klein, , it’s, Donath Organizations: Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, chum, The New York Times, OpenAI, Microsoft Locations: A.I, Olive, OpenAI
Tony Fadell said Apple's staggered rollout of its AI features is smart. Apple Intelligence features became available Monday with iOS 18.1. Apple's AI features launched on iPhones with the release of iOS 18.1 on Monday. "People were like, 'I downloaded it,' and they were like, 'Apple's AI is meh,'" Fadell said. AdvertisementDuring Apple's earnings call on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook talked more about Apple's AI strategy, which plans to release additional Apple Intelligence features in December.
Persons: Tony Fadell, Fadell, Apple's, , Apple, Siri, Tim Cook, Cook Organizations: Apple Intelligence, Service, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Big Tech, Constellation Energy, Amazon, Amazon Web Services Locations: SMRs, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand
New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks during a press conference at the Office of the Attorney General in New York on February 16, 2024. With four days until the presidential election, U.S. government officials are cautioning against reliance on artificial intelligence chatbots for voting-related information. "Study after study has shown examples of AI chatbots hallucinating information about polling locations, accessibility of voting and permissible ways to cast your vote." "We agree with the NY Attorney General that voters should consult official channels to understand where, when, and how to vote," an Anthropic spokesperson told CNBC. "For specific election and voting information, we direct users to authoritative sources as Claude is not trained frequently enough to provide real-time information about specific elections."
Persons: Letitia James, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, James, It's, Alexandra Reeve Givens, chatbots, Claude, OpenAI, ChatGPT, it's Organizations: New, New York, Republican, Democratic, Center for Democracy & Technology, CNBC, Google, NY Locations: New York, U.S, Mistral
Greater China is a key market for Apple, with new AI features expected to roll out in April. It also rolled out its highly-anticipated Apple Intelligence software in the US in English on Monday. While consumers may be buying the newest iPhones in Greater China, they'll have to wait until April for Apple Intelligence to launch in Chinese, however. However, competition is stiff, and Apple Intelligence still needs time to prove itself. It'll take months to know for certain if AI can move the needle for Apple in Greater China.
Persons: Apple, , Tim Cook, Jacob Bourne, It'll Organizations: Apple, Baidu, Service, Apple Intelligence, Huawei, Xiaomi, Business, Wedbush Securities Locations: Greater China, China, EMARKETER
Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to academic papers and analysts. Top Chinese research institutions linked to the People's Liberation Army have used Meta's publicly available Llama model to develop an AI tool for potential military applications, according to academic papers and analysts. It was found to outperform some other AI models that were roughly 90% as capable as OpenAI's powerful ChatGPT-4. The researchers didn't elaborate on how they defined performance or specify whether the AI model had been put into service. Meta has embraced the open release of many of its AI models, including Llama.
Persons: Army's, Meta META.O, ChatBIT, Sunny Cheung, Meta Organizations: People's Liberation Army, Reuters, PLA, Academy of Military Science, Meta, Jamestown Foundation Locations: China, U.S
Equity markets rallied this year, as investors remained bullish on Big Tech but also scooped up shares in under-the-radar companies. Year-to-date, shares in Exxon have gained 16.7%, while the stock of Barrick and Microsoft have gained around 10.8% and 15% respectively. Microsoft Teng remains bullish on Microsoft, despite Wrise making a "partial switch" and reducing its weight in the tech giant while increasing allocations to Nvidia in early August. Microsoft and and Nvidia are among the so-called Magnificent Seven stocks, which also include Alphabet , Amazon , Apple , Meta Platforms and Tesla . Nike Athletic footwear and apparel label Nike is another stock that Teng likes, despite bearish sentiments in Wall Street.
Persons: Kevin Teng, , Barrick, Barrick Gold Teng, Microsoft Teng, Teng, OpenAI, AlixPartners, Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse Organizations: Big Tech, CNBC Pro, Wrise Private Singapore, Microsoft, behemoth Exxon Mobil, Barrick Gold, Exxon, Barrick, Exxon Mobil, Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, Nike Athletic, Nike, Disney, Marvel Studios, Disney Plus, 4Q, Pixar Animation Studios Locations: Asia, East, Europe, Wall Street
OpenAI is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom and TSMC to build custom AI chips, per Reuters. OpenAI could have its custom chips by 2026 but is reportedly dropping plans to build its own fabs. AdvertisementBuilding custom AI chips has long been the preserve of a select few tech companies — but OpenAI might be about to join the party. AdvertisementOpenAI's move, which will also reportedly see it incorporate AMD chips into its supply mix, means it would reduce its dependency on Nvidia, the market leader for AI chips. While it's unclear how much OpenAI's reported chip-building push will cost, creating custom AI chips doesn't come cheap.
Persons: OpenAI, , Kate Leaman, Rahul Kulkarni, Maia, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Gil Luria, Davidson, Luria, Edward Wilford, Sam Altman, Altman, Pierre Ferragu Organizations: Broadcom, Meta, Google, Service, Reuters, BI, Microsoft, Apple, Tech, Amazon Web, AWS, Nvidia, Big Tech, Street, New, Research, New York Times
Sam Altman said OpenAI's next big model is likely not coming this year. The CEO answered user questions during a Reddit Ask Me Anything Thursday — sometimes using ChatGPT to respond, he said. AdvertisementSam Altman used his own AI creation to answer questions during a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session on Thursday. Altman also said he was using ChatGPT, the company's generative AI chatbot, to "sometimes" answer questions during the AMA. The billionaire offered new timing details on OpenAI's next large AI model, GPT-5, saying its release likely won't come this year.
Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI's, , Redditors, Altman, Srinivas Narayanan, Narayanan, Bing, OpenAI execs, Kevin Weil Organizations: Service, AMA
Among them are Anthropic, Elon Musk's xAI, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence, and AI search startup Perplexity. The last of the five rivals, and perhaps the least well-known, is Glean, an enterprise search assistant. Founded in 2019 by Rubrik cofounder and ex-Googler Arvind Jain, Glean helps corporate workers find information across their companies' tools and data. Related Video Sam Altman moves to Microsoft after OpenAI fires him as CEOThe company enables AI search by integrating apps like Slack and Dropbox and powering search across their company's universe of data. AdvertisementBesides enterprise search, Glean also has an AI assistant that generates answers based on search results, such as summarizing the day's Slack messages or synthesizing multiple documents.
Persons: Glean, Jain, , Sam Altman, Elon Musk's, Ilya Sutskever's, Googler Arvind Jain, Kleiner Perkins, Deedy Das, Larry Page, Das, Bipul Sinha, Rubrik, Mamoon Hamid, Vishwanath, Tony Gentilcore, Piyush Prahladka, , Arvind, Hamid, Paul, Rajeev Dham, they're, Slack, Altman, It's Organizations: Google, Service, Elon Musk's xAI, DST Global, Sapphire Ventures, Sequoia, Microsoft, Sony Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Menlo Ventures, IIT Delhi, University of Washington, Akamai Technologies, Technology, YouTube, Kleiner Locations: Jaipur, Indian, IIT Delhi, India, Glean, Seattle
Super Micro is one of the primary vendors for building out Nvidia-based clusters of servers for training and deploying AI models. Super Micro is now at risk of being delisted from the Nasdaq, and has until Nov. 16 to regain compliance with the stock exchange. Ernst & Young was new to the job, having just replaced Deloitte & Touche as Super Micro's accounting firm in March 2023. Since the S&P's announced index changes in March, Super Micro's stock has dropped at least 10% on six separate occasions. — CNBC's Rohan Goswami and Kif Leswing contributed to this report WATCH: Super Micro stock is a 'very risky buy'
Persons: Ernst & Young, Deloitte didn't, hasn't, P's, Dow Jones, Kevin Barry, Barry, , Rohan Goswami, Kif Leswing Organizations: Computer Inc, Bloomberg, Getty, Micro, Nvidia, Ernst, Nasdaq, Mizuho, Deloitte, Touche, CNBC, Ernst & Young, Dell, SEC, Super, Hindenburg Research, Super Micro, U.S, U.S . Super, Whirlpool, P Global Locations: San Jose , California, U.S, That's, U.S .
AdvertisementThe cofounder of Zoox, an Amazon-backed robotaxi company, said he sometimes feels nervous when using Tesla's so-called Full Self-Driving mode. FSD is a key piece of Tesla technology that will be critical for the company's fully autonomous vehicle and robotaxi visions. Levinson said part of the problem with Tesla's approach to autonomous driving is its reliance on cameras. Related storiesNot everyone is a skeptic of Tesla's autonomous driving vision. AdvertisementLike Waymo, Zoox uses a combination of LiDAR, radar, and cameras for its autonomous driving system.
Persons: Jesse Levinson, , FSD, Tesla, Elon Musk, Levinson, Musk, Tesla's, it's, Andrej Karpathy, Karpathy, Zoox Organizations: TechCrunch, Service, Traffic, Administration, Waymo, PACE, Tesla, Las Locations: San Francisco, California, Texas, Market
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