AI to Market Businesses by 2029 – DeepMind Co-founder
DeepMind co-founder and Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman believes the next five years will be a turning point in the business world as tech will be widely available and very cheap. Ahead of 2030, the artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer stated during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum that he believed an AI system […]
Anthropic Files Rebuttal Against UMG in AI Copyright Lawsuit
Anthropic, the developer of the artificial intelligence (AI) model Claude, has responded to a lawsuit filed in October from Universal Music Group (UMG) that alleges unauthorized use of a copyrighted work. On January 16, the AI developer lodged an opposition, arguing that the plaintiff’s claims were without merit and filed in the incorrect court. “Plaintiffs’ […]
Google Forecasts Layoffs in 2024 to Propel AI Initiatives
On January 17, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, issued an internal memorandum predicting that additional layoffs will be necessary by 2024 to achieve the company’s “ambitious goals” across multiple domains, artificial intelligence (AI) included. In the memo titled “2024 priorities and the year ahead,” Pichai stated, CNBC and The Verge observed and reported, “We […]
Microsoft, Vodafone Partner on Generative AI Integration
Microsoft and the British telecommunications company Vodafone have partnered in a ten-year deal to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) functionalities with Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Copilot. The companies announced on January 17 that Vodafone, in collaboration with Microsoft, will allocate $1.5 billion over the next decade towards developing “customer-focused AI services” and cloud infrastructure. In […]
Sony Develops AI System to Create Fantasy NPC Personas
Sony researchers have developed An artificial intelligence (AI) system that can transform dialogue fragments into fantasy personas” that may be implemented as non-player characters (NPC) in video games and other media. AI personas are characteristics or personas that AI models, including large language models, adopt. Training and refining a natural language model via a combination […]