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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.

OpenAI is currently researching process supervision, a method for reducing the number of hallucinations produced by LLMs. It has had success with maths datasets but needs to be tested generally.

A lawyer's reliance on ChatGPT for legal research led to the submission of false information. Discussions have emerged in the legal community regarding the responsible use of AI tools.

Adding Bing search to OpenAI's ChatGPT will bring more recent information to the chatbot, while the new Bing Chat plugin partners will include Expedia, Instacart, Kayak, Klarna, Redfin, and more.

Neeva, which created a search engine that later added an AI component, announced this weekend it is shutting down its consumer search business. It will concentrate its efforts on AI development.

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.

Twitter has written a letter to Microsoft to review its use of Twitter data and to complain that the company hasn't paid for access. It wants a report back from the company by next month.

OpenAI has long been rumored to be working on ChatGPT for mobile platforms. Today, the company finally launched the app, but only for iPhone users. However, its availability is limited to the US.

OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk criticizes the company's business model and talks about his role before his departure during an interview with CNBC. He claimed OpenAI wouldn't exist without him.

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.

Wardell talks about incorporating ChatGPT generative AI into Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova and how it could actually lead to more game developers being hired, among other topics

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.

Mozilla, developer of the Firefox browser acquires the fake review detecting extension Fakespot. As it becomes part of Mozilla, it plans to bring useful tools for Firefox users when shopping online.

Among other announcements, the Biden Administration revealed that companies with AI systems like Microsoft and Google have agreed to have them tested at the annual DEFCON hacking conference.

Other new features that will be added soon to Bing Chat include the ability to quickly export and share chats with others, improvements in creating summaries of long documents, and more.

Meta is posting more info on new malware threats. It aims to inform users about recent malware behaviors, methods of penetration, and their effort towards disrupting the spread of malware.

Microsoft is reportedly planning to launch a private version of ChatGPT that will run on dedicated Azure servers intended to keep data from customers safe, secure, and isolated from others.

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.

AI chat apps utilizing ChatGPT technology are a growing industry led by European developers, with 23.6 million Google Play Store downloads since November 2022. Europeans are more open to it.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed an AI system similar to ChatGPT that they claim could turn a person's brain activity into text using an fMRI scanner.

Ex-Google engineer fired from Google's Responsible AI team reveals OpenAI's ChatGPT rival Google Bard had gone sentient. This has caused months of delays in the product launch over safety concerns.

Welcome back to another edition of Microsoft Weekly where we recap all the important events that happened in the Redmond technology giant's universe in the past few days. Dive right in!

The ban against using ChatGPT in Italy has been lifted after its owner OpenAI put in some privacy features, which include asking users who sign up to confirm their actual age and more.

A new iOS app named Call Annie allows real-time video conversations with a ChatGPT-powered AI. The app's animated avatar can answer various questions and offers an audio-only mode for older devices.

The space strategy game Galactic Civilizations IV: Supernova Edition is now available from Stardock, and it allows for AI-created civilizations, artwork, and quests using OpenAI's ChatGPT.

The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science has penned an open letter, that you can sign, calling for more research into consciousness. It says this will help us better understand AI.

OpenAI has made incognito mode available for ChatGPT. It allows you to turn off chat history and stop your conversations from being used to train ChatGPT models. Read on to learn how to enable it.

The open source software is designed to assist chatbots with large language models by keeping them on track with their answers and avoiding false or even crazy responses to questions.

The third party JavaGPT application allows the ChatGPT chatbot to run on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 7, and other older versions of Microsoft's operating system with a Java GUI.

It might take a lot of money to run the popular AI bot ChatGPT. A firm estimates that the number could be as high as $700,000 per day, most of which goes into hardware infrastructure used to run it.

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.

GPTZero and Peerceptiv have partnered up to give professors of post-secondary students the tools they need to identify where artificial intelligence has been used to write a person's essay.

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.

This week has been quite busy when it comes to Microsoft news. We have a lot to unpack including Windows bugs and their respective fixes, new GPT integrations, and upcoming Windows features.

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI has confirmed the development status of GPT-5. He also shared further insights about GPT development and approaches to bolster security during an event at MIT.

A new PowerToys utility is in the works, aiming at allowing Windows users to access ChatGPT using a simple search bar-like UI. It will let you ask the AI questions without opening a browser.

OpenAI is asking security researchers to find and report potential bugs in ChatGPT and other services. The company is handing out cash prizes of up to $20,000 depending on the bug's severity.