AI PCs might take off slowly, but battery life benefits is set to become Snapdragon X's real selling point
Adobe and other developers reportedly resisted requests to optimize AI applications for NPUs
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Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service
53% say they would move to a competitor if a company was going to use AI for customer service
Big Tech needs to generate $600 billion in annual revenue to justify AI hardware expenditure
The big picture: The tech industry is riding a new high amid a frenzy fueled by AI. Big Tech companies have been plowing huge sums to build out the necessary infrastructure to meet what they perceive demand will be for these products in the coming years. One analyst warns however that the industry needs to stop and consider whether the actual revenue generated by AI will be enough to support these investments.
Even staunch fans are calling out Apple's less-than-transparent AI training data harvesting
It claims most training samples are Apple-owned, but what about the rest?
Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training
The BS claim stirs a hornet's nest of copyright concerns
Google Gemini is not as good at analysis as its hype says, other AI models also struggle
The big picture: If there's one thing that generative AI is supposed to be good at, it's analyzing the written word. However, two studies suggest that this ability may have been overhyped. One study demonstrates that Gen AI struggles with understanding long-form books, while another shows that these models find answering questions about videos challenging. This is something companies should consider as they augment their workforce with Gen AI.
Deepfaking it: GenAI is more likely to be misused to influence your vote than to steal your money
Expect to see more deepfake videos this political season
Company cuts costs by replacing 60-strong writing team with AI
"I contributed to a lot of the garbage that's filling the internet and destroying it"
A hot potato: CEOs, bosses, and the those who make the technology love to assure people that artificial intelligence isn't going to replace everyone's jobs; it will merely augment them – working alongside humans to make life easier. Yet we keep hearing stories like the one about a writer whose employer fired his 60-person team and replaced them with an AI.
Nvidia hints at the future of DLSS for AI-generated textures and NPCs in games
Everything will be AI
This $1 billion AI chatbot has been accused of stealing content and lying
Critics say Perplexity makes 'facts' out of thin air
TSMC explores massive rectangular chip substrates to meet AI demand
It could translate to significantly more chips per wafer
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model, claims it outperforms GPT-4o in some tests
It's twice as fast as Anthropic's flagship model
IMF proposes tax on AI carbon emissions to counter job loss, income inequality
A carbon tax could also curb AI's environmental toll
New Samsung 2nm roadmap shows backside power delivery coming in 2027
Doubling down on bleeding-edge tech for AI era
"Apple Intelligence" brings long-discussed AI features to Apple devices
Cupertino stresses on-device privacy but will partially rely on Apple cloud servers and ChatGPT for some queries
Windows Server 2025 gets VM-based GPU partitioning for AI workloads
The result of Microsoft's team-up with Nvidia
Intel's new Gaudi 3 accelerators massively undercut Nvidia GPUs as AI race heats up
Intel claims similar performance at significantly lower costs
Windows Copilot AI will eventually run on GeForce RTX GPUs
While other vendors push AI PCs, Nvidia presents RTX AI PCs
Amazon is using generative AI to reduce damaged and incorrect deliveries
Resulting in happier customers and less pollution, hopefully
Dell showcases hybrid AI approach, merging cloud and on-premises solutions
Forward-looking: Getting companies interested in deploying generative AI applications is no longer a challenge for tech suppliers. Figuring out how to best use the technology, however, is still difficult for many of these business customers. One new technique that Dell discussed at its Dell Tech World event in Las Vegas is the concept of hybrid AI, where some of the work happens in the cloud, but some is done on premises within an organization's data centers.
Amazon looks set to launch a paid-for, generative AI-powered Alexa this year
$20 per month for AI-supercharged Alexa?
Apple's secret meeting with TSMC could be a move to lock down chipmaker's 2nm tech
Gatekeeping for a competitive advantage
Unbuilt data centers in high demand as firms secure space years in advance
Shortfall looms as construction fails to meet surging demand
Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton says universal basic income needed in face of AI-related job losses
Hinton repeated concerns about an AI-induced extinction-level event
Slack has been siphoning user data to train AI models without asking permission
Smarter collaboration, but at what cost?