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ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million
30 Aug

ChatGPT has doubled its weekly active users to 200 million

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ChatGPT now has 200 million weekly active users, according to OpenAI. That represents a doubling of the weekly audience of 100 million the company announced last November. A representative from the company told Engadget that API usage has also doubled since the July release of GPT-4o mini.User numbers aren't the only big growth OpenAI has seen over the past year. CEO Sam Altman reportedly told employees this summer that the company's annualized revenue — which takes a monthly revenue figure and stretches it out over a whole year — had reached $3.4 billion, up from $1.6 billion at the end…
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28 Aug

This Wearable AI Notetaker Will Transcribe Your Meetings—and Someday, Your Entire Life

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“Most companies are innovating with AI with already digitized data on the internet,” Plaud CEO Nathan Hsu says in a press briefing ahead of the NotePin’s release. “But there is so much data in our real-life scenarios. What we say, what we hear, and what we see.”Are You Getting This Down?Transcribing your life is a noble endeavor. A decent amount of the long, tedious task of transcribing an interview or meeting notes by hand can be handed off to a good speech recognition service. But—take it from a journalist who routinely uses automated transcription services to type out interviews—those services…
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OpenAI shut down an Iranian influence op that used ChatGPT to generate bogus news articles
16 Aug

OpenAI shut down an Iranian influence op that used ChatGPT to generate bogus news articles

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OpenAI said on Friday that it thwarted an Iranian influence campaign that used ChatGPT to generate fake news stories and social posts aimed at Americans. The company said it identified and banned accounts generating content for five websites (in English and Spanish) pretending to be news outlets, spreading “polarizing messages” on issues like the US presidential campaign, LGBTQ+ rights and the war in Gaza.The operation was identified as “Storm-2035,” part of a series of influence campaigns Microsoft identified last week as “connected with the Iranian government.” In addition to the news posts, it included “a dozen accounts on X and…
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Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries
16 Aug

Google brings the AI feature that told Americans to eat rocks to six more countries

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Google is expanding AI Overviews, the feature that summarizes answers to complex questions from the web and presents them at the top of traditional search results, to six more countries — India, Japan, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil and the United Kingdom — from Thursday with support for local languages as well as English.That’s less than three months after AI Overviews launched in the United States and promptly told people to eat rocks and put glue on their pizzas. Bringing them to millions more people begs the question: How do you prevent another glue pizza fiasco in a foreign country?“It’s a challenging…
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I Used ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode. It’s Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy
13 Aug

I Used ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode. It’s Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

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I leave ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode on while writing this article as an ambient AI companion. Occasionally, I’ll ask it to provide a synonym for an overused word, or some encouragement. Around half an hour in, the chatbot interrupts our silence and starts speaking to me in Spanish, unprompted. I giggle a bit and ask what’s going on. “Just a little switch up? Gotta keep things interesting,” says ChatGPT, now back in English.While testing Advanced Voice Mode as part of the early alpha, my interactions with ChatGPT’s new audio feature were entertaining, messy, and surprisingly varied. Though, it’s worth noting…
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OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students
04 Aug

OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students

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Following a report from The Wall Street Journal that claims OpenAI has been sitting on a tool that can spot essays written by ChatGPT with a high degree of accuracy, the company has shared a bit of information about its research into text watermarking — and why it hasn’t released its detection method. According to The Wall Street Journal’s report, debate over whether the tool should be released has kept it from seeing the light of day, despite it being “ready.” In an update published on Sunday to a May blog post, spotted by TechCrunch, OpenAI said, “Our teams have…
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Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?
31 Jul

Can ChatGPT-4o Be Trusted With Your Private Data?

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Open AI says this data is used to train the AI model and improve its responses, but the terms allow the firm to share your personal information with affiliates, vendors, service providers, and law enforcement. “So it’s hard to know where your data will end up,” says Love.OpenAI’s privacy policy states that ChatGPT does collect information to create an account or communicate with a business, says Bharath Thota, a data scientist and chief solutions officer of analytics practice at management consulting firm Kearney, which advises firms on managing and using AI data to power new revenue streams.Part of this data…
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OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won’t sound like ScarJo
30 Jul

OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won’t sound like ScarJo

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OpenAI has started rolling out its advanced Voice Mode feature. Starting today, a small number of paying ChatGPT users will be able to have a tete-a-tete with the AI chatbot. All ChatGPT Plus members should receive access to the expanded toolset by the fall of this year.In an announcement on X, the company said this advanced version of its Voice Mode "offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions."We’re starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time…
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Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers
30 Jul

Perplexity will put ads in its AI search engine and share revenue with publishers

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When people type a question into Perplexity, the two-year-old search engine scours the internet and uses information from multiple sources, including online publishers, to synthesize an answer using AI. Soon, Perplexity will start sharing revenue with some publishers as part of an advertising platform it plans to launch around the end of September, the company announced on Tuesday.The initiative, known as the Perplexity Publishers’ Program, comes less than two months after the San Francisco-based startup backed by investors like Jeff Bezos and NVIDIA, and valued at $3 billion, came under fire from Forbes, Wired, and Condé Nast for allegedly scraping…
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