Transformer models, neural network architectures employing self-attention mechanisms, have revolutionized natural language processing tasks, achieving remarkable performance in machine translation, question answering, and text generation through models like BERT, GPT, and ChatGPT.
Amazon is pushing into generative AI with new conversational shopping and health assistants, including 'Interests AI' for product recommendations and a chatbot offering medical advice and wellness guidance.
Alarming surge of 140% in AI-powered cyberattacks exploiting browser vulnerabilities, with 130% rise in zero-hour phishing, necessitating robust browser security solutions to fortify cloud browsing and zero trust access against evolving AI-driven threats bypassing traditional defenses.
OpenAI's groundbreaking o3 model, combining deep learning and program search, shattered records with a remarkable 75.7% score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, showcasing unprecedented task adaptation capabilities, yet falling short of true AGI as tougher challenges loom.
Browser Use, a tool that converts website elements into an AI-friendly format, has secured $17 million in seed funding to become a crucial layer enabling AI agents to interact with websites seamlessly, backed by Felicis Ventures, Paul Graham, A Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for up to $450 billion, claiming ChatGPT was trained on millions of its copyrighted articles, potentially reshaping AI training and journalism.
Microsoft is pioneering a 'training-time provenance' approach to trace the influence of specific data sources on AI-generated content, aiming to ethically compensate contributors of valuable training data used in AI models, in collaboration with technologist Jaron Lanier and his 'data dignity' concept.
Perplexity, an AI search startup, proposes an ambitious $30-50 billion bid to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations, rebuild its algorithm transparently and integrate its search capabilities, seeking funding at an $18 billion valuation.
PwC has signed a groundbreaking deal to become the first enterprise reseller of OpenAI's ChatGPT, integrating the AI technology into its workforce and services, and positioning itself as a leader in AI adoption and scaling for clients.
GenAI promises time-saving automation for teachers, but history suggests such technologies often intensify workloads, narrow expectations of 'good' work, reduce collaboration, and require substantial effort to assess and revise outputs, raising doubts about the promise of less stressful work.