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Google Bard now asks users for their precise location. This enables the chatbot to provide better information about local businesses, provide local weather reports, give you directions, and more.

Sources familiar with the matter report that Microsoft and CoreWeave have signed a potentially multi-billion dollar deal earlier this year. CoreWeave is currently providing computing power for OpenAI.

Microsoft's Michael Gillett has created new versions of the well known Windows XP and Windows 11 wallpapers using generative AI fill effects to show off more of the wallpaper's landscape

Nvidia becomes the fifth US-based company to hit the $1 Trillion market capitalization during trading today as the chipmaker's stock price breezed past the $400 mark for the first time.

Nvidia and WPP partner for innovative content engine leveraging Omniverse and generative AI. It will enable efficient production of high-quality commercial content using 3D images and videos.

MediaTek and NVIDIA have partnered up to develop new systems-on-chips for vehicles that will deliver AI and other infotainment features for all types of cars from entry-level to luxury.

In this editorial, I go over a few valuation metrics to see whether NVIDIA is trading at a fair price after its recent price explosion. When buying stocks, it is important not to pay over the odds.

Nvidia's share price has jumped more than 22 percent, following the company's first quarterly financial report. The surge in price also brings the company closer to joining the Trillion dollar club.

NVIDIA reported its results for the first quarter of its 2024 financial year. It saw its stock price surge from $305 to $380 in after-hours trading showing investors received the results well.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

Generative Fill will allow Photoshop owners to extend, add, or remove content from images with its Firefly-based generative AI system. Its the first of Adobe's Creative Cloud apps to use Firefly.

Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) countries agreed to form common international standards to regulate the ethical use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and ensure their legality.

Apple has told its employees to stop using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot because it's worried about confidential data leaking out to other companies that could abuse it.

Altman added that he is concerned about how generative AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT could be used for misinformation and for interfering in future elections in his statements to the Senate panel.

Google has updated Bard again today so that it provides helpful summaries. It will also let you see which parts of the answer are from sources linked at the bottom of the response.

Amazon is looking to bake generative AI into its online store. Instead of searching manually for products, you'll just tell the company what you want and it will pick out products for you.

Google has announced a new Large Language Model called PaLM 2 that improves upon its predecessor and is now 25 Google services including specialized services like Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM.

Google Search will be getting some generative AI features that will allow users to ask follow-up questions for text searches, and will also help with the company's shopping search features.

The expansion of the Microsoft 365 Copilot testing program will begin with an invite-only paid preview for 600 business customers at first. More new Copilot features are also being added.

Microsoft could issue Bing Chat model updates three times a year to improve its capabilities, Mikhail Parakhin has revealed. Nothing is set in stone and it is really just the best guess at this point.

OpenAI no longer uses data from API customers to train its large language models, according to CEO Sam Altman. If you use ChatGPT directly, though, your information will be used to train the LLMs.

The Competition and Markets Authority is launching its initial review into generative AI to see how it could affect competition or affect consumers. It'll publish a report in September.

A new feature for LinkedIn Premium subscribers will let job hunters use generative AI to create messages for hiring managers. The feature uses info from the job seeker's and the manager's profiles

Box is partnering up with OpenAI to bring generative AI capabilities into its products. Users can ask Box AI to summarize or answer questions about their documents or other data over the cloud.

Samsung sent out a memo to its employees barring them from using chatbots like Bing Chat, Google Bard, and ChatGPT at work after some employees used them to upload secret company info.

The new AI features in Microsoft Designer will allow users to type in prompts that will generate captions, art suggestions and more for blog posts, web sites and other types of design projects.

Although some European countries are rushing to ban ChatGPT and related technologies, Ireland is taking a more measured approach where it wants to fully understand the benefits and risks of AI.

Copilot in Microsoft Viva will use generative AI to summarize objectives and key results for a company's employees, along with ways for leaders to communicate better to their workers.

Google's CEO Sundar Pichai told 60 Minutes in a recent interview that he predicts that there will be global treaties in the future to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and to limit misuse.

Elon Musk is attempting to develop his own generative AI product, according to insiders. He has scooped up NVIDIA GPUs to power the work and has been poaching engineers from other companies.

The new experimental add-in will allow Excel users to type in prompts directly in a spreadsheet grid. The generative AI feature will then create an answer to the prompt, also in the grid.

Alibaba Cloud is reaching out to businesses to see if they want to try out its generative AI bot. Corporate entities that are interested can check out Alibaba Cloud's WeChat for more details.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said in an interview that Google Search will soon enable some conversational AI elements that will help it to compete with Bing Chat and ChatGPT to help users more.

Bill Gates has said a pause on generative AI models would not help to solve the challenges that these technologies pose. These comments come just weeks after he called the tech revolutionary.

The small testing group is based just in the US for now, but they can check out the generative AI features that Google is working into its Gmail email service and its Docs productivity apps.

Google has done a shake-up of the Bard and Assistant teams, according to an internal memo. It suggests that Google is moving its focus away from the ageing Google Assistant to the newer Bard.

Microsoft Security Copilot will allow computer security employees to ask a generative AI chatbot to find issues, create alert summaries, and more in a faster way to provide defenses against threats

Pope Francis has given a speech about AI to business leaders, scientists, and others about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms that assess behaviour.

Microsoft has outlined how generative AI could help non-profit organizations. It said some benefits include cost savings, increased productivity, and having a higher impact on the world.

OpenAI has launched a waitlist for users to begin using third-party plugins that extend the generative AI's abilities. Plugin developers can also join the waitlist to develop a plugin.