Microsoft’s Salaried Staff Won’t Get Raise This Year, Reveals Leaked CEO Mail: Report

Microsoft’s Salaried Staff Won’t Get Raise This Year, Reveals Leaked CEO Mail: Report

Microsoft will not raise salaries for full-time employees this year and is reducing budget for bonuses and stock awards, Insider reported on Wednesday, citing an internal email by CEO Satya Nadella. The tech giant did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. “Last year, we made a significant…

AI Pioneer Defines It as a ‘More Urgent’ Threat to Humanity Than Climate Change

AI Pioneer Defines It as a ‘More Urgent’ Threat to Humanity Than Climate Change

Artificial intelligence could pose a “more urgent” threat to humanity than climate change, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton told Reuters in an interview on Friday. Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers of AI”, recently announced he had quit Alphabet after a decade at the firm, saying he wanted…

Google Pixel Devices May Get Bard AI as a New Homescreen Widget, Tips APK Teardown

Google Pixel Devices May Get Bard AI as a New Homescreen Widget, Tips APK Teardown

Bard, Google’s ChatGPT-esque chatbot could soon find its way to Pixel smartphones and tablets. Google is reportedly preparing to expand the reach of its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot by adding it to the company’s devices through a widget. A recent APK (Android Package Kit) teardown of Bard’s code indicates…

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI CEOs Meet US President Biden at White House, Discuss AI Risks

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI CEOs Meet US President Biden at White House, Discuss AI Risks

President Joe Biden attended a White House meeting with CEOs of top artificial intelligence companies, including Alphabet‘s Google and Microsoft, on Thursday to discuss risks and safeguards as the technology catches the attention of governments and lawmakers globally. Generative artificial intelligence has become a buzzword this year, with apps such…

EU Lawmakers Struggle to Finalise Law to Regulate ChatGPT and Generative AI

EU Lawmakers Struggle to Finalise Law to Regulate ChatGPT and Generative AI

As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers’ plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. The bloc’s 108-page proposal for the AI Act, published two years earlier, included only one mention of the word “chatbot.” References to AI-generated content largely referred…

ChatGPT Restored in Italy After Microsoft-Backed OpenAI Responds to Regulator

ChatGPT Restored in Italy After Microsoft-Backed OpenAI Responds to Regulator

The ChatGPT chatbot was reactivated in Italy after its maker OpenAI addressed issues raised by Italy’s data protection authority, the agency and the company confirmed on Friday. Microsoft-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy last month after the country’s data protection authority, also known as Garante, temporarily banned the chatbot…

MediaTek Shifts Focus to Cars, AI Amid Supply Glut in Smartphone Market

MediaTek Shifts Focus to Cars, AI Amid Supply Glut in Smartphone Market

Taiwan’s top chip design company MediaTek is focusing more resources on chips for cars and AI computing as its smartphone clients face a supply glut and inflation and macroeconomic uncertainty dent demand for consumer electronics. “We are definitely moving our resources very, very rapidly towards the automotive and computing areas,…

EU Lawmakers Committee Reaches Preliminary Deal on Artificial Intelligence Act

EU Lawmakers Committee Reaches Preliminary Deal on Artificial Intelligence Act

A committee of European Union lawmakers on Thursday reached a preliminary agreement on a European Artificial Intelligence Act, which would pave the way to the first ever regulation of AI. “Against conservative wishes for more surveillance and leftist fantasies of over-regulation, parliament found a solid compromise that would regulate AI…

Microsoft, Alphabet, Other AI Companies Urged to Prioritize Security Measures for New Technologies

Microsoft, Alphabet, Other AI Companies Urged to Prioritize Security Measures for New Technologies

The chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday urged CEOs of several artificial intelligence (AI) companies to prioritize security measures, combat bias, and responsibly roll out new technologies. Democratic Senator Mark Warner raised concerns about potential risks posed by AI technology. “Beyond industry commitments, however, it is also clear…

OpenAI Rolls Out Incognito Mode on ChatGPT That Does Not Save Users’ Conversation History

OpenAI Rolls Out Incognito Mode on ChatGPT That Does Not Save Users’ Conversation History

OpenAI is introducing what one employee called an “incognito mode” for its hit chatbot ChatGPT that does not save users’ conversation history or use it to improve its artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday. The San Francisco-based startup also said it planned a “ChatGPT Business” subscription with additional data controls….