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OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has stepped away from his role as co-director of an internal commission the company created in May to oversee key safety and security decisions related to OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) model development and deployment. OpenAI’s Safety and Security Committee will become “an independent board oversight committee focused on safety and security”…
Business spending to adopt and use AI in existing operations, and to deliver better products and services, is expected to drive 3.5% of global GDP by 2030, adding $19.9 trillion to the world economy, according to a new report from research firm IDC. AI spending by businesses alone is expected to reach $632 billion by…
Has Apple’s love affair with AR cooled? Not on your life, and while it is true that visionOS didn’t get much time during the company’s big reveals at WWDC and last week’s iPhone launch, the company has delivered a handful of valuable improvements to the OS — hinting at future product plans as it did. Perhaps…
A new forecast from the research firm IDC indicates that shipments of headsets for Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) will increase by 41.4% in 2025. And along with lower hardware prices, the big draw will be built-in AI functions, according to Reuters. The new AI headsets are called ER (Extended Reality) and are…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has announced that the company’s employees will soon have to work from the office five days a week, just as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, workers were only required to be in the office three days a week. “Looking back over the past five years, we continue to believe that the…
As we navigate the threshold of a bold new era with generative AI, the excitement is palpable – not least for software companies in Europe. From content and code generation (including debugging and testing), personalisation, and back-office task optimisation to virtual assistants, decision-making, and far beyond, generative AI is a revolutionary technology that is beginning to…
Kendall McDaniel felt like a nomad worker, wandering from job to job, never making enough money, never feeling fulfilled. He worked entry-level jobs in construction, in healthcare and at multiple fast-food joints. In those fast-food jobs, McDaniel said, “You could be bleeding out of your ears and you’d still be expected to come into work.”…
Just as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was preparing to present her new team, there is trouble over the line-up for Commission posts: The European Union’s current Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, Thierry Breton, has unexpectedly submitted his resignation. In his resignation letter, which the Frenchman posted on X, Breton justified…
Apple’s latest iPhones support a new breed of Apple AI called Apple Intelligence, a collection of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that will be made available across the company’s platforms starting in October with the release of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1. Apple Intelligence supplements Apple’s existing machine-learning tools and relies on generative…
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company, can be differentiated from the latest GPT-4o models basis their reasoning abilities. “We’ve developed…