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Apple is working on its own artificial intelligence powered chatbot that could challenge those of OpenAI and others, but the company has yet to devise a clear strategy for releasing the technology to consumers, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. According to the report, the ‘Apple GPT’ uses its own large language model framework called as “Ajax," a framework created to accelerate machine learning research. The report further said AI push has become a major effort for the iPhone maker, with several teams collaborating on the project.

The Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into the ChatGPT app points to an emerging conflict over how Washington should regulate artificial intelligence, one that could pit some of America’s biggest businesses against labor unions and progressive advocacy groups. Businesses want to use systems like ChatGPT, which can instantly generate media and imitate human conversation, to cut the number of employees needed to write documents or answer calls. AI-driven bots could also open up new markets by creating individually customized ads or even pitching customers in live conversation.

Canada still plans to introduce a digital services tax in 2024 despite U.S. opposition, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.

Computer chip and software maker Broadcom’s $61 billion plan to buy cloud technology company VMware has cleared another hurdle after Britain’s competition regulator gave the deal provisional clearance

₹75,000 each for June. Around 500 employees were said to be affected by the move, which accounts for 40-45% of its workforce. It had fired around 30% of its workforce in April.

Social media site Reddit faces being fined for the first time in Russia for not deleting «banned content» that Moscow says discredits the Russian army, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing a Moscow court. Reddit joins a list of sites under scrutiny in Russia for failing to remove content that Moscow deems illegal, including Wikimedia, streaming service Twitch, and Google.

  Leslie D'Monte The Generative AI race just got hotter with Meta releasing the second version of its free open-source large language model, Llama 2, for research and commercial use, thus providing an alternative to the pricy proprietary LLMs sold by OpenAI like ChatGPT Plus and Google Bard while giving a boost to open source LLMs. Developers began flocking to LLaMA--Meta’s open-source LLM that was released in February (https://ai.meta.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/). Researchers made more than 100,000 requests for for Llama 1, according to Meta.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and Google. OpenAI and Google have created amazing large language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard. These chatbots have impressed people with their ability to mimic human creativity and knowledge.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have joined forces to introduce the world to Llama 2 (Large Language Model), the next generation of AI. What makes this collaboration even more intriguing is the decision to release Llama 2 as an open-source technology. This new partnership between Meta & Microsoft was announced by Zuckerberg in a power-packed Instagram post. The picture shared on Zuckerberg's handle captured the two tech titans dressed in blue, smiling for the camera as they celebrated the collaboration. His post read, «Today, we're open sourcing Llama 2 with our preferred partner @microsoft. This gives researchers and businesses access to build with our next generation large language model as the foundation of their work. Grateful to Satya and our teams for making this happen.»

Google, and Best Buy (BBY.N), will introduce an initiative aimed at enabling Americans to identify devices that have a lower vulnerability to cyberattacks. According to a statement from the White House, this new certification and labeling program will establish higher cybersecurity standards for smart devices such as refrigerators, microwaves, televisions, climate control systems, and fitness trackers. Manufacturers and retailers will affix a "U.S.

LLaMA -- Meta’s open-source LLM that was released in February. Researchers made more than 100,000 requests for for Llama 1, according to Meta. LLaMA requires “far less computing power and resources to test new approaches, validate others’ work, and explore new use cases", according to Meta.

Twitter alternative developed by Meta. This news coincided with the announcement of a new AI partnership between Meta and Microsoft. Nadella expressed his excitement about joining Threads and expanding the AI collaboration with Meta.  In his inaugural Threads post, he stated, "Today is an incredible day to join Threads! We're thrilled to strengthen our AI partnership with Meta by integrating their Llama family of large language models into Azure.

Garena Free Fire Max is a revamped version of Garena Free Fire. It debuted in 2021 and became popular after the ban of the former by the Indian government. Developers of the game keep updating these codes daily.

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei will testify on July 25 at a U.S. Senate hearing on artificial intelligence as lawmakers consider potential regulations for the fast-growing technology, the Senate panel scheduling the hearing said on Tuesday.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53% more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology. The company also said it would make a more secure version of its Bing search engine available immediately to businesses, aiming to address their data-protection concerns, grow their interest in AI and compete more with Google. At its virtual Inspire conference, the company said customers would pay $30 per user, per month for its AI copilot in Microsoft 365, which promises to draft emails in Outlook, pen documents in Word and make virtually all an employee's data accessible via the prompt of a chatbot.

The Biden administration and major consumer tech players are launching an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place

US tech stock party. Investors have more than doubled their allocations to global tech leaders in the past six months.

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms has built an artificial intelligence system that rivals the likes of ChatGPT and Google’s Bard but it’s taking a different approach: releasing it for free

The Biden administration and major consumer tech players are launching an effort to put a nationwide cybersecurity certification and labeling program in place

Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down