As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering. Among other things, the ChatGPT creator is planning to streamline the process of ad buying, either in partnerships with ad tech firms or with its own ad management system. So far, advertisers that bought the first ad campaigns on ChatGPT... Read more ›
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I spent Tuesday afternoon at the White House’s holiday party for influencers. It was packed: more than 500 attendees mingled over spiked eggnog and cocktail shrimp, including hip-hop artist Flava Flav, comedian Keegan-Michael Key, reality TV star turned podcaster Harry Jowsey—and of course, the Bidens. Tuesday's party, the second year the Biden administration’s Office of Digital Strategy hosted a holiday fest for creators and others working in the industry, was... Read more ›
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President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasn’t expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more ›
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Alec Radford, an OpenAI researcher who helped develop some of its most important artificial intelligence, on Thursday told colleagues he was leaving to pursue research independently. Radford said he planned to collaborate with OpenAI as well as other AI developers, according to a person who ... Read more ›
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Google is making one of its biggest moves yet to bring conversational answers into its search engine, a response to artificial intelligence rivals that have attracted users by providing such answers rather than a list of website links. The company is planning to give its billions of search users the option to switch to an AI Mode that looks nearly identical to its Gemini AI chatbot, according to a person... Read more ›
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Apple has criticized Meta Platforms for making a large number of requests to access Apple’s “sensitive technologies” within its mobile operating system iOS, warning that such requests could allow Meta to read iPhone owners’ emails and messages. Meta made the requests under a rule ... Read more ›
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Fintech banking startup Chime Financial has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering, Bloomberg reported. Chime declined to comment. The company, which has long been planning to go public next year, offers fee-free digital banking sources. The company was valued at $25 billion ... Read more ›
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Accel, a blue-blood of Sand Hill Road, is thinking smaller.The firm publicly filed Thursday that it has raised $1.35 billion for its latest growth fund to invest in mature startups. That’s nearly a quarter less than the $1.75 billion it raised for its last growth fund in 2021.The smaller fund is a tacit admission by one of the industry’s leaders of the challenges facing scores of venture capital firms—that there... Read more ›
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Apple is in early talks with Tencent and ByteDance about using its artificial intelligence models in iPhones sold in China, Reuters reported. China has tight rules over AI, making it challenging for foreign companies to operate their AI models in the country without regulatory approval. So ... Read more ›
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Workers at seven U.S. Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said. The striking workers include some warehouse staff employed by Amazon, as well as delivery drivers that Amazon says are not its employees. The strikes affect Amazon facilities in New ... Read more ›
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Apple is nearing a deal with the Indonesian government to lift a ban on sales of the iPhone 16 that went into effect in late October, Bloomberg reported. While Apple’s sales in Indonesia are modest when compared with the U.S., Europe, and China, the Southeast Asian country’s status as the fourth ... Read more ›
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Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its models’ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people haven’t realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more ›
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To figure out how its advanced artificial intelligence chips are ending up in China in violation of U.S. export laws, chip giant Nvidia has turned to companies like Super Micro Computer for answers. Nvidia generally doesn’t sell its chips directly to customers, relying instead on specialized dealers and server companies like Supermicro, as the company is also known, to do so. That’s why Nvidia recently asked Supermicro to conduct spot... Read more ›
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Chinese gaming giant Tencent Holdings relinquished its two board seats at ‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games, after the U.S. Department of Justice raised concerns about antitrust violations. The two Epic board of directors also serve on Tencent’s board, which according to the DOJ is a violation of the ... Read more ›
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We’ve got a new cliff-hanger episode in the seemingly endless drama over TikTok’s future. This time, the stars will be John Roberts and his band of Supreme Court justices. The highest court in the land on Wednesday said it would hear oral arguments on Jan. 10 in TikTok’s appeal against the ban-or-sell law that threatens the app’s existence. (If only those arguments could be broadcast as TikToks!)That timeline is cutting... Read more ›
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OpenAI announced on Wednesday that users will now be able to talk to its AI chatbot by calling 1-800-CHATGPT or messaging it via WhatsApp. Users can call the number without an account and will receive 15 minutes free per month, the company said. The phone number is built using OpenAI’s Realtime ... Read more ›
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AI search company Perplexity has acquired Carbon, a small startup founded last year whose software lets large language models ingest data from a range of different third-party applications. The move underscores Perplexity’s growing ambitions in enterprise search, an increasingly crowded ... Read more ›
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With the dramatic innovations from generative AI, companies want to move beyond the experimentation phase to tangible business results. But moving from pilot to production requires business leaders to make important decisions about which tools to use, how to mitigate risks and when to scale. During a recent live video summit, Jon Victor from The Information explored the future of AI with three leaders in the field: Dr. Walter Sun,... Read more ›
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The Information asked readers how they envision the progress of artificial intelligence in 2025 and beyond. How much do we already know about AI’s potential and what remains unknown? What are the implementation lessons coming from 2024, and are companies using them to make changes going forward? Is AI going to pay off investors, corporations and employees? The 249 readers of The Information who participated in the survey (see the... Read more ›
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Well that was fast! The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would take up TikTok’s appeal challenging a U.S. law that could ban the video app next month.Just two days earlier, TikTok had asked the Supreme Court to temporarily halt the law. But the court on Wednesday deferred a decision on granting such a freeze until after oral arguments, which are scheduled for Jan. 10. The ban is due to... Read more ›
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Micron Technology, which makes chips for memory and storage, reported on Wednesday an 84% year-over-year increase in revenue to $8.7 billion in the November quarter, due in large part to growth in its sales of high-bandwidth memory chips, which are used in data centers alongside GPUs including ... Read more ›
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