In January, artificial intelligence company Civox approached Matthew Diemer, a Democrat running for election in Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, with a proposition: AI-powered voice technology who could make tens of thousands of personalized phone calls to voters using Diemer’s talking points and sense of humor. His campaign agreed to test the technology, but it turned … Read more
Goal CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has criticized European regulations around open source artificial intelligence, saying the continent risks being left behind due to complex rules. Europe, which “has more open source developers than the United States,” is well positioned to take full advantage of the Open Source AI hello, the Executive … Read more
Linked to the State Chinese entities They are using cloud services provided by Amazon or its rivals to access advanced U.S. chips and artificial intelligence capabilities they cannot otherwise acquire, recent public tender documents showed. The US government has restricted the export of high-end artificial intelligence chips to China for the past two years, citing … Read more
Intuit Forecast for fiscal year 2025 revenue above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, relying on growth demand for its AI-powered financial management tools amid the recent price increases. Intuit, known for products like TurboTax, Credit Karma and QuickBooks, has benefited from growing demand for its AI-powered offerings, which provide personalized financial recommendations and automation of … Read more
Perhaps the best-known risk is the one embodied by the killer robots in the “Terminator” movies: the idea that AI will turn on its human creators. The story of the arrogant inventor losing control of his own creation is centuries old. And in the modern era, observes Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist, “Hollywood trains people … Read more
Warren Buffett got AI partly right. The billionaire investor and philanthropist told CNN earlier this year: “We let a genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons… AI is a similar thing: It’s partially out of the bottle.” Buffett’s reasoning is that, like nuclear weapons, AI has the potential to unleash profound, large-scale … Read more
California It will be the first US state to allocate millions of dollars of taxpayer money and technology companies to help pay journalism and AI Research under a new agreement announced Wednesday. Under the first-in-the-nation deal, the state and tech companies would together pay about $250 million over five years to support a California-based news … Read more
Lingo Telecom agreed to pay a $1 million fine after the agency said it transmitted false information. robocalls imitating President Joe Biden seeking to dissuade people from voting for him in the New Hampshire Democratic primary choice“a US government regulator said on Wednesday. The Federal Communications Commission said Lingo transmitted fake robocalls that used generative … Read more
Zoom Video Communications increased its annual revenue revenue forecast on Wednesday, driven by strong demand for its AI-powered collaboration tools deployed in Hybrid work models, and said Kelly Steckelberg would step down as its CFO. Shares of the video conferencing provider were up 3% in after-hours trading. Zoom has redoubled its efforts to integrate artificial … Read more
Zomato has stopped using AI-generated food images. Artists and others have also spoken out against such images. While there may be compelling reasons to use AI-generated images in some cases, platforms must ensure transparency. Mint explains: Why did Zomato ban AI-generated food images? It was in response to customer complaints about artificial intelligence (AI)-generated food … Read more
