Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok
Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard who stepped down at the end of last year, is apparently interested in buying TikTok as a new bill in the US threatens to ban the app or force its sale. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Kotick mentioned…
Google fires engineer who protested at a company-sponsored Israeli tech conference
Google has fired a Cloud engineer who interrupted Barak Regev, the managing director of its business in Israel, during a speech at an Israeli tech event in New York, according to CNBC. “I’m a Google software engineer and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide or surveillance!” the engineer…
Anthropic says its new Claude 3 AI chatbot scores better on key benchmarks than GPT-4
The battle between AI chatbots is more than a two-horse race. Anthropic, the company formed by several ex-OpenAI employees, claims its new Claude 3 language model outperforms ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini in several key industry benchmarks. It even hit “near-human” levels on some tasks, the company wrote in a blog. …
Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models. It isn’t clear which data…
Reddit reportedly signed a multi-million content licensing deal with an AI company
Ever posted or left a comment on Reddit? Your words will soon be used to train an artificial intelligence companies’ models, according to Bloomberg. The website signed a deal that’s “worth about $60 million on an annualized basis” earlier this year, it reportedly told potential investors ahead of its expected…
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?
Last week, The Browser Company, a startup that makes the Arc web browser, released a slick new iPhone app called Arc Search. Instead of displaying links, its brand new “Browse for Me” feature reads the first handful of pages and summarizes them into a single, custom-built, Arc-formatted web page using…
ChatGPT will digitally tag images generated by DALL-E 3 to help battle misinformation
In an age where fraudsters are using generative AI to scam money or tarnish one’s reputation, tech firms are coming up with methods to help users verify content — at least still images, to begin with. As teased in its 2024 misinformation strategy, OpenAI is now including provenance metadata in…
Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US
Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it’s expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service…
X plans to hire 100 content moderators to fill new Trust and Safety center in Austin
X’s head of business operations Joe Benarroch said the company plans to open a new office in Austin, Texas for a team that will be dedicated to content moderation, Bloomberg reports. The “Trust and Safety center of excellence,” for which the company is planning to hire 100 full-time employees, will…
ElevenLabs reportedly banned the account that deepfaked Biden’s voice with its AI tools
ElevenLabs, an AI startup that offers voice cloning services with its tools, has banned the user that created an audio deepfake of Joe Biden used in an attempt to disrupt the elections, according to Bloomberg. The audio impersonating the president was used in a robocall that went out to some…