Why it Matters That Google’s AI Gemini Chatbot Made Death Threats to a Grad Student

AI chatbots put millions of words together for users, but their offerings are usually useful, amusing, or harmless. This week, Google’s Gemini had some scary stuff to say.

Business - Inc. - 10 hours ago

Honeywell signs deal with Google to bring Gemini generative AI to industrial sector

Honeywell has signed a deal with Google to bring generative AI from its Gemini model and Vertex cloud platform together with industrial's massive data set.

Business - CNBC - October 21

Google Gemini unexpectedly surges to No. 1, over OpenAI, but benchmarks don’t tell the whole story

Google's Gemini-Exp-1114 AI model tops key benchmarks, but experts warn traditional testing methods may no longer accurately measure true AI capabilities or safety, raising concerns about the ...

Tech - VentureBeat - 2 hours ago

How AI groups are infusing their chatbots with personality

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic have developed teams focused on improving ‘model behaviour’

Business - Financial Times - October 20

Google is winning the AI search wars

But rival products from Apple and OpenAI will continue to attract users

Business - Financial Times - October 31

ChatGPT Search Made Me Quit Google for Good

It’s not perfect, but ChatGPT Search is now my default way to find information.

Business - Inc. - 4 days ago

Be mean to me, ChatGPT: People are turning to AI chatbots for 'tough love' and motivation

People are asking ChatGPT for tough love to motivate them to be productive. Here's what a clinical psychologist says about the tactic.

Business - CNBC - October 25

Molly Russell and Brianna Ghey chatbots found on AI site

The foundation set up in Molly's memory said it would cause "further heartache to everyone who knew and loved" her.

The chatbot optimisation game: can we trust AI web searches?

Google and its rivals are increasingly employing AI-generated summaries, but research indicates their results are far from authoritative and open to manipulation. Does aspartame cause cancer? The ...

World - The Guardian - November 3

‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot

Nous Chat gives users access to its large language model (LLM) Hermes 3-70B, a fine-tuned variant of Meta's Llama 3.1.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 7

Forget the Nanny, Check the Chatbot. AI May Soon Help With Parenting

The AI revolution means new startups can address some unexpected markets, like easing the challenges of caring for kids.

Business - Inc. - November 8

New Google AI Will Take Over Browsers: Report

The new product, code-named Project Jarvis, may reach users as soon as December, according to reports.

Business - Inc. - October 28

Character.AI, Google face lawsuit over teen's death

A Florida mother filed a lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Character.AI and Google. In February, Megan Garcia's 14-year-old son died by suicide. She says her son was in a ...

AI on the trading floor: Morgan Stanley expands chatbot tools to Wall Street division

Morgan Stanley is expanding the use of OpenAI-powered, generative artificial intelligence tools to its vaunted investment banking and trading division, CNBC has learned.

Jets intercept plane after 'bomb threat' made

Residents say they heard a loud sonic boom as Typhoon jets scrambled.

Why mispronunciations like ‘Eye-ran’ matter

American politicians insisting on “Eye-ran” in the alarming context of escalating conflict in the Middle East should be seen as intentional xenophobia.

Politics - The Hill - October 24

Is Trump actually a fascist – and why does the answer matter?

Given the comparisons to Hitler and Mussolini, experts say it’s important to remember that fascism is a process. While Democratic strategists debate whether or not their attack ads labeling ...

World - The Guardian - November 4

Watch: The biggest prize battleground state - and why it matters

BBC’s Anna Foster reports from swing state Pennsylvania, explaining its crucial role in the outcome.

Elections tracker 2024: every vote and why it matters

More than 80 countries – more than half the world’s population – are voting this year in elections that could be pivotal for democracy. More than 80 countries are heading to the polls in 2024 , ...

World - The Guardian - November 7

Why the name of a national park was switched from Snowdonia to Eryri

For many Welsh speakers, Eryri and Yr Wyddfa are the names they have used all along.

Why BBC Tory leader debate is not happening, and why it matters

A planned Question Time special on BBC One has been called off following objections from Kemi Badenoch.

Why AI is going nuclear

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have all announced plans to partner with or build new nuclear power plants and reactors for AI. Here's why.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 18

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

Security researchers created an algorithm that turns a malicious prompt into a set of hidden instructions that could send a user's personal information to an attacker.

Tech - Wired - October 17

AI on the trading floor: Morgan Stanley expands OpenAI-powered chatbot tools to Wall Street division

Nearly 50% of employees at Morgan Stanley and 60% at JPMorgan Chase have access to generative AI software provided by OpenAI.

Business - CNBC - October 23

Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker

Megan Garcia said Sewell, 14, used Character.ai obsessively before his death and alleges negligence and wrongful death. The mother of a teenager who killed himself after becoming obsessed with an ...

World - The Guardian - October 23

An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges

A Florida mother is suing a tech company over an AI chatbot that she says pushed her son to kill himself

Tech - ABC News - October 25

SambaNova and Hugging Face make AI chatbot deployment easier with one-click integration

SambaNova and Hugging Face's new tool lets developers build ChatGPT-style apps in one click, cutting setup time from hours to minutes and making AI projects simpler for businesses.

Tech - VentureBeat - November 6

Chegg, Once a Hot Education Tech Startup, Now Battles AI Chatbots to Survive

The AI revolution already claimed hundreds of jobs at the online tutoring company. Now it could save its business.

Business - Inc. - Yesterday

Securing the AI frontier: Protecting enterprise systems against AI-driven threats

It's the weaponized AI attacks targeting identities, unseen and often the most costly to recover from that most threaten enterprises.

Tech - VentureBeat - Yesterday

Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Customize Its AI Podcasts

The NotebookLM tool generates AI-hosted audio podcasts on any topic. Its latest update allows users to enter prompts to personalize the output. I tried it out.

Tech - Wired - October 17

Google launches NotebookLM Business to make enterprise AI audio, text

A paid version of the increasingly popular Google tool NotebookLM will target businesses.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 17

Google DeepMind’s Hassabis on his Nobel: ‘It feels like a watershed moment for AI’

Founder of the artificial intelligence R&D lab says scientific understanding can prevent mis-steps in developing the technology

Business - Financial Times - October 21

With This 1 Move, Google May Have Solved a Huge AI Content Problem

As AI tech gets smarter it’s getting harder to spot the difference between content made by a human and what’s been dreamed up by an algorithm. Google, pushing the AI envelope itself, is aware of ...

Business - Inc. - October 24

Google's partnership with AI startup Anthropic faces a UK competition investigation

Britain’s competition watchdog is opening a formal investigation into Google’s partnership with artificial intelligence startup Anthropic

Tech - ABC News - October 24

Meta just beat Google and Apple in the race to put powerful AI on phones

Meta has launched compressed AI models that run directly on smartphones, making artificial intelligence faster and more private while using less memory than cloud-based alternatives.

Tech - VentureBeat - October 24

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