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Meta to Build Massive AI Data Center in Rural Louisiana

The $10B facility will be the company's largest AI data center to date

(Newser) - The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook's parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of the state, reports the AP . Congressional leaders and local representatives from across the political spectrum heralded the...

Pharma Industry Hopes AI Can Help Develop New Drugs

Drug development is still costly and takes a long time—but AI could change that

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies do business—helping programmers write code and fielding customer service calls with chatbots. But the pharmaceutical industry is still waiting to see whether AI can tackle its biggest challenge: finding faster, cheaper ways to develop new drugs. Despite billions poured into research, new...

Canadian News Groups File Complaint Against OpenAI

Publishers don't appreciate their content being used to train ChatGPT generative AI system

(Newser) - A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including the Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial-intelligence system. The outlets said in a joint statement Friday that OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large...

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
ChatGPT Defeated
Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
NEW STUDY
Nov 18, 2024 12:12 PM CST

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

Docs who used ChatGPT to diagnose didn't fare better than those without—but the bots alone won

(Newser) - Over the summer, researchers gave a failing grade to artificial intelligence when it comes to diagnosing illnesses, finding that a chatbot that read 150 case studies diagnosed the correct condition less than 50% of the time. "ChatGPT in its current form is not accurate as a diagnostic tool,"...

AI Chatbot Response: 'Human ... Please Die'

Google's Gemini tool issues a creepy request to user in Michigan

(Newser) - Google's artificial intelligence chatbot apparently got tired of its conversation with a mere mortal and issued the following directive, reports CBS News :
  • "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste
...

Bees Complicate Meta's Nuclear-Powered AI Plans

Sources tell Financial Time s that rare bees were found at proposed site near reactor

(Newser) - Meta, like rivals including Microsoft and Amazon, has been seeking to use nuclear power to meet the vast power demands of its artificial intelligence projects, but the quest has been complicated by bees. The company had planned to build an AI data center near an unspecified nuclear plant in the...

Polish Radio Station's AI Gambit Doesn't Go Well

Backlash ensues after Off Radio Krakow fires journalists, replaces them with AI presenters

(Newser) - Earlier this fall, a Polish radio station laid off its journalists—but while that was distressing enough to the journalists involved, a more recent development is even more so. Off Radio Krakow, part of Poland's public broadcasting system, relaunched in late October, including with what it announced was "...

ChatGPT Suddenly Acts a Lot More Like Google

New feature allows real-time searches of the web

(Newser) - OpenAI has updated its AI-powered chatbot, adding what CEO Sam Altman said Thursday is "my favorite feature we have launched" since ChatGPT's debut. Beginning Thursday, ChatGPT's paying subscribers can activate a mode in which the chatbot searches the web for the latest information when answering a query....

Nvidia Momentarily Passes Apple in Value
Nvidia Momentarily Tops Apple
Oct 26, 2024 2:10 PM CDT

Nvidia Momentarily Tops Apple

AI growth bodes well for chipmaker, analyst says

(Newser) - Nvidia stocks' rally Friday pushed its value briefly to $3.53 trillion, passing Apple to become the most valuable company in the world. The rally was driven by demand for Nvidia's specialized artificial intelligence chips, NBC News reports. Apple was sitting at $3.52 trillion. At the end of...

Elon Musk Just Got Sued Over His Robotaxi Rollout

Producer of Blade Runner 2049 says Tesla used AI imagery similar to the film

(Newser) - The production company behind Blade Runner 2049 has sued Elon Musk over the recent rollout of Tesla's new self-driving Robotaxi . Alcon Entertainment says it rejected a request from Musk to use imagery from the 2017 movie at the vehicle's launch party, reports the New York Times . "He...

Dad Discovers Murdered Daughter Is Now a Chatbot
Dad Discovers Murdered
Daughter Is Now a Chatbot
in case you missed it
Oct 20, 2024 3:30 PM CDT

Dad Discovers Murdered Daughter Is Now a Chatbot

Drew Crecente warns of the harms from a largely unregulated industry

(Newser) - A father who continues to grieve the 2006 murder of his 18-year-old daughter says he was appalled to discover her name and yearbook photo were used to create an AI chatbot. Drew Crecente found the chatbot earlier this month on Character.ai, a website that allows users to converse with...

This Is the Most Valuable Private Company on Earth

ByteDance, parent firm of TikTok, comes in at No. 1 on Visual Capitalist's list

(Newser) - Ah, to be a unicorn—not the one-horned creature of fable, but the enviable position of being a privately held company worth more than $1 billion. Visual Capitalist wanted to see which firms topped the charts globally, so it looked at data from Bloomberg, CB Insights, and the "Carbon...

OpenAI Sees Its Valuation Explode
OpenAI Sees Its
Valuation Explode
Oct 2, 2024 2:02 PM CDT

OpenAI Sees Its Valuation Explode

Company valued at $157B after new funding round

(Newser) - OpenAI's latest funding round has pulled in $6.6 billion, putting the current value of the company behind ChatGPT at $157 billion; that's up from $86 billion earlier this year. What you need to know:
  • What just happened: The Wall Street Journal describes the latest round as a
...

To Boost Chatbot's Appeal, Meta Turns to Celeb Voices

Meta AI can now speak in the voice of John Cena, Judi Dench, Kristen Bell

(Newser) - An AI-version of John Cena is now at your command, sort of. The actor-wrestler is one of several celebrities who've lent their voices to Meta's AI-powered chatbot, which counts some 400 million users across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, and is expected to become the most used AI...

OpenAI&#39;s CTO, Other Execs Step Down
OpenAI's CTO,
Other Execs
Step Down
Sep 26, 2024 6:22 AM CDT

OpenAI's CTO, Other Execs Step Down

Mira Murati, others left 'independently of each other and amicably,' per CEO Sam Altman

(Newser) - OpenAI just lost quite a few of its top dogs. SFGate reports that CTO Mira Murati, 35, is stepping down from her post at "San Francisco's buzziest tech startup," as are Bob McGrew, the artificial intelligence company's chief research officer, and Barret Zoph, research VP. CEO...

Candidate Says He Is &#39;Meat Avatar&#39; for AI Bot
Would-Be AI Mayor Loses
in a Landslide in Wyoming
UPDATED
Aug 22, 2024 11:19 AM CDT

Would-Be AI Mayor Loses in a Landslide in Wyoming

But candidate who promised to let AI bot run the city got 327 votes in mayoral primary

(Newser) - Cheyenne, Wyoming, will not be governed by an AI bot. A candidate who campaigned on the promise of letting a customized ChatGPT bot make all major decisions received only 327 of 11,036 votes in this week's mayoral primary, reports Statescoop . Victor Miller finished well behind the top two...

Iranian Group Used ChatGPT to Create Divisive Articles

OpenAI says group was creating content to spread misinformation online

(Newser) - An Iranian group used ChatGPT to create content that was intended to influence the US presidential election and spread misinformation online, OpenAI said Friday. The company, which said the offending accounts have been banned, said its investigation showed the group, which it dubbed Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to create longform articles...

Apple Intelligence Is Out With Some Promised Features

Developer version will be followed by others over the next year

(Newser) - The debut version of Apple Intelligence rolled out Monday, providing a look at some of the improvements planned and clarity about which ones won't be out for a while. The release is a developer-only beta version of iOS, iPadOS 18.1, and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, the Wall Street ...

Sam Altman's $27M Mansion Is No Dream Home

The OpenAI chief's legal team has sued over alleged defects

(Newser) - It's a $27 million San Francisco mansion complete with its own Batcave-like tunnel entrance. It's also a "lemon," claims a lawsuit filed by the 950 Lombard LLC, which bought the Russian Hill mansion four years ago. The San Francisco Standard traces the LLC to the man...

OpenAI Kept Mum After Hacker Stole Its Secrets
OpenAI Got Hacked,
Told No One
Jul 5, 2024 8:13 AM CDT

OpenAI Got Hacked, Told No One

April 2023 breach left some employees fearing a foreign state could steal data, too: NYT

(Newser) - ChatGPT maker OpenAI failed to disclose a 2023 hack of its internal messaging systems, through which secrets of its technologies were plundered, reports the New York Times . A hacker gained access to internal discussions among employees, who shared details of OpenAI's latest artificial intelligence tech, in April 2023, but...

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