OpenAI and Vole get into the newsroom
Claims it will save jobs
OpenAI and Microsoft are jointly funding an initiative to integrate artificial intelligence tools into the newsroom, claiming it will save 21st-century journalism.
Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November
Virtual workers
Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers.
OpenAI has lost ground to rivals
Still the leader for now
OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,
Apple insiders admit that it is two years behind on AI
Not so cutting edge, after all
While Tame Apple Press claims that the fruity cargo cult is at the cutting edge of AI development, its staff knows it is two years behind everyone else.
DoD wants to use AI to create fake people
As if reality was not fake enough
The US Department of Defense wants technology to fabricate online personas indistinguishable from real people.