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Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic is bringing its generative AI assistant Claude to Europe. The chatbot is accessible via a website and an iPhone app, and offers both free and paid subscriptions for individuals and businesses. Anthropic emphasizes Claude’s accuracy, security and privacy, as well as its expertise in numerous European languages. Claude is currently available …
AI-powered search tool Perplexity closed a new round of funding and is valued at more than $1 billion. With the new capital and a new Enterprise Pro Plan, the company plans to expand globally and offer its secure, AI-powered search service to enterprises.
The Austrian consumer organization noyb is suing OpenAI because ChatGPT disseminates false information about individuals, which potentially violates the GDPR.
More than half of Americans have already tried generative AI, with the majority (82%) seeing it as enriching their creativity and simplifying their lives. The technology is especially popular for personal projects (81%) and research and brainstorming (64%). These are the findings of a study by Adobe Analytics.
A mysterious chatbot called “gpt2-chatbot” caused a stir among experts this week. Its capabilities appeared to be on a par with GPT-4, but its origin remained unknown. After a short time, the bot disappeared from the scene again, presumably due to the high level of interest. Speculation about the developer, including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, …
Poe introduces a new revenue model where AI bot creators on the platform can set a price per message to earn money when users interact with their bots. Source: TechCrunch
AI startup Symbolica is focusing on a new approach to giving AI models human-like reasoning and unprecedented transparency. According to the company, it aims to overcome the “alchemy” of today’s AI systems and create a scientific foundation that will lead to interpretable, data-efficient, and controllable AI models. Source: VentureBeat
The NSA, in collaboration with international partners, is releasing a guide to best practices for the secure deployment and operation of AI systems. The Cybersecurity Information Sheet is aimed primarily at operators of national security systems and companies in the defense industry, but is also relevant to other organizations. Source: Hacker News
The EU and the US want to strengthen their cooperation in the field of AI, particularly in the areas of security, governance, and research into risks and beneficial applications. They are calling on platforms to facilitate access to data for researchers to better study societal risks. Source: TechCrunch
Snapchat is also focusing on greater transparency and stricter guidelines for the use of AI. Any image generated with Snap AI will be tagged with a new watermark. Source: TechCrunch