Something very scary is happening on the internet. It’s a horror story unfolding before us, in three simple acts. Back in 1993, we used to joke about it: anyone can hide behind a screen name, but how bad can it get? Maybe we’ll find out soon. AI technology is improving fast enough that I had … Read more
AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are all the rage, so it’s no surprise that TikTok is now testing its own AI chatbot as well. The bot, dubbed “Tako,” is undergoing limited testing in select markets, where it will appear on the right side of the TikTok interface, above the user’s profile and other buttons for likes, … Read more
Reed McGinley Punch Contributor Organizations need to move quickly adapt their application security strategies to address emerging threats fueled by AI. They contain: More advanced bot traffic. More credible phishing attacks. The emergence of legitimate AI agents accessing customer online accounts on behalf of users. By understanding the implications of AI on Identity Access Management … Read more
OpenAI announced in a tweet that the official ChatGPT mobile app is now available in more countries. When OpenAI first unveiled its mobile app last week, the app was only available on iOS and in the US. Now many people in Europe, South Korea, New Zealand and more can download the app from the App … Read more
Snowflake is all about managing data in the cloud, whether it’s a structured data warehouse or a less structured data lake. Neeva, a search startup from two former Google employees, is all about search and works on both consumer and business offerings. Earlier this week, it announced it was ceasing consumer searches to focus on … Read more
Opera today announced that it is introducing an AI side panel to its browser called “Aria”, which is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company says Aria is both a web and browser expert that makes it easier to find information on the web, generate text or code, or get answers to your product questions. The … Read more
Google’s Sundar Pichai has agreed to work with lawmakers in Europe on what’s been dubbed an “AI pact” — seemingly a contingency package of voluntary rules or standards while formal regulations for adopting AI are still being worked out. Pichai met with Thierry Breton, the European Union’s internal market commissioner, who issued a statement after … Read more
Only a few months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, sparking a buzz among tech enthusiasts and industry titans. Now the technology underpinning this generative AI is breaking through barriers, reaching remote hamlets hundreds of miles from the tech hubbub of Seattle and San Francisco. Jugalbandi, a chatbot built in … Read more
With Spotify’s AI DJ, the company trained an AI on the voice of a real person – that of Cultural Partnerships head and podcast host, Xavier “X” Jernigan. Now it appears that the streamer can turn that same technology into advertising. According to statements by The Ringer founder Bill Simmons, the streaming service is developing … Read more
Microsoft’s student tech-for-good competition, the Imagine Cup, has crowned this year’s winner: Tawi, a team from Kenya that applied machine learning tools to help children with auditory processing disorder (APD) better understand others. APD is a hearing disorder in which someone hears sound just fine, but their brain has trouble processing it. This can lead … Read more