Google’s AI Overviews are insane, recommending eating rocks and running with scissors
Earlier this month Google began rolling out its AI Overview feature to the masses — and it’s going poorly. Google, in some instances, has been using generative AI to answer questions at the top of peo...
Google AI search is telling users to put glue on pizza because it’s trained on Reddit posts
Alphabet’s Google pays Reddit $60 million a year to train its AI on posts on Reddit, and it looks like Google’s AI is now pulling directly from the dregs of the internet. Google’s AI overview for “che...
Microsoft CEO says “artificial intelligence” is the wrong name
In contrast to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who apparently tried to steal a real human’s likeness for AI , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he doesn’t like anthropomorphizing AI. The OpenAI partner doesn’t ...
Amazon ruined the name Alexa for many parents
While we were exploring the most common baby names in the US last Monday , OpenAI announced its latest creation: ChatGPT-4o, an AI-powered voice assistant that makes the last generation of lackey auto...
OpenAI teams up with Reddit for data licensing
OpenAI announced that it’ll license data from Reddit, and investors upvoted Reddit’s shares on the news. (Fun fact: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman owns nearly 9% of Reddit’s stock.) For , the deal’s an expansi...
Google’s AI plans are a shot across the bow of the travel-planning industry
and OpenAI both showed off what appear to be impressive AI voice assistants during rival events this week, but Google may have a leg up when it comes to managing your life given how well it knows you ...
OpenAI's real target isn't search engines; it's personal assistants
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-4o, a faster, freer model that "can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.” In other words, you can talk to it and show it stuff and it will respond in kind. S...
4 notable AI takes at Bloomberg’s Tech conference
We don’t have an official count of how many times the tech titans at Bloomberg’s tech summit in San Francisco last week mentioned artificial intelligence, but it was definitely a lot. Good, bad, sexy,...
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is deep into AI
P (YC) = 1 Many things get described as “a certainty” or “a guarantee” when in fact the difference between 90% likely, 99% likely, and 99.9% likely — which is significant — is often ignored. With that...
AI startups are getting billions despite little revenue
While the tech industry generally keeps its belt tightened, investors are still going gaga over anything to do with AI, according to the Wall Street Journal . That’s meant plowing money into startups ...
Microsoft, Facebook, Google tout smaller AI
Tech companies that have long touted the enormity of their AI models are now saying size doesn’t always matter. is the latest tech company to introduce smaller AI models, as part of its Phi-3 tech fam...
Meta won’t tell you what went into training its new AI model Llama 3
Today Meta unleashed its ChatGPT competitor, Meta AI, across its apps and as a standalone . The company boasts that it is running on its latest, greatest AI model, Llama 3, which was trained on “data...
Adobe is paying $3 a minute for AI-training video of people touching things
Adobe is pushing its way into the growing business of generative AI video, joining OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Imagen 2. The new tools will roll out this year, according to Adobe. In contrast to its we...
AI sends Alphabet toward $2T
It looks like might soon join the $2T market cap club, thanks to renewed investor confidence in its AI strategy, following its presentation of enterprise AI tools at its cloud computing conference th...
Google Assistant is bad now. But why?
Recently I brought Google Assistant to its cognitive limits by asking it to tell jokes to my toddler. Our Google Nest Hub Max got through three jokes before repeating the one where the left eye says t...
Elon Musk is raising AI engineer pay to keep from losing talent
In response to an Information article about Elon Musk’s xAI poaching engineers from his other company, , the billionaire tweeted that the move was meant to keep those engineers from being poached by O...
To make AI images look less like AI, ad firms are using humans
Sometimes AI-generated images are just so perfect people hate them. To avoid the “AI look,” ad firms are going older-school, and using such bygone tech as Photoshop to add in flaws to AI-generated ima...
Microsoft doesn’t acquire AI company Inflection, but kind of does anyway
It’s common practice for a large company to identify a smaller company that they would like to own, and say, “Hey, I would like to pay you millions (billions?) of dollars for technology.” To which the...