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Humane, a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by former Apple engineers Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, is now focusing on licensing its AI operating system CosmOS after the release of its AI Pin wearable device received significant criticism. As reported by Om Malik, the AI Pin faced issues such as poor battery life, heating problems, and …
Apple has announced that it will begin rolling out Apple Intelligence features to iPhone and iPad users in the European Union in April 2025, Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. The rollout will include core features such as Writing Tools, Genmoji, a redesigned Siri with enhanced language understanding, ChatGPT integration, and more. EU Mac users can …
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), establishing the first industry standard for determining whether an AI system can be considered truly open source. Developed through years of collaboration with academia and industry, the OSAID requires open source AI to provide sufficient information to substantially recreate …
Researchers have discovered that Whisper, an AI-powered transcription tool used in various industries including healthcare, is prone to making up text or entire sentences, known as hallucinations. According to interviews with software engineers, developers, and academic researchers by AP, these hallucinations can include problematic content such as racial commentary, violent rhetoric, and imagined medical treatments. …
Meta has entered into a multi-year agreement with Reuters to integrate the news agency’s content into its AI chatbot, enabling users to receive real-time answers to queries about news and current events. According to Axios, users of Meta’s AI chatbot feature in the U.S. will have access to Reuters’ journalism when asking questions, with answers …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has responded to an exclusive report by The Verge journalists Kylie Robison and Tom Warren, which claimed that the company plans to launch a new frontier AI model codenamed Orion by December, calling it “fake news out of control” on X (formerly Twitter). The report, citing sources familiar with the plan, …
OpenAI plans to release its next major AI model, called Orion, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike previous releases, Orion will first be made available to companies to build their own products and features. The model is said to be more powerful than GPT-4, and is seen as a step toward artificial general intelligence …
Apple has opened its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system to security researchers, according to a post on its Security Research Blog. PCC is designed to meet compute-intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while maintaining privacy by bringing Apple’s device security model to the cloud. The company is now making available a security guide, virtual research environment, …
AI search engine Perplexity has written a blog post in response to a lawsuit filed by media company News Corp, which accuses the startup of copyright infringement. According to Perplexity’s Maxwell Zeff, media companies wish this technology didn’t exist and that they could live in a world where facts are owned by corporations. Perplexity claims …
For the first time, US President Biden wants to introduce detailed guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in government agencies. As David E. Sanger reports in the New York Times, a national security memorandum will set “guardrails” for the use of AI tools – for example, in decisions about nuclear weapons or asylum applications. …