by alex | Dec 12, 2023 | newsletter
Following 36 hours of talks, EU officials have finally reached a historic provisional deal on laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. The Artificial Intelligence Act The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators’ provisional agreement...
by alex | Dec 12, 2023 | newsletter
Google has announced the phased rollout of its new ‘Gemini’ family of large language models with the Ultra version said to rival the abilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4. What Is Gemini? Gemini, which Google describes as its “newest and most capable” large language model...
by alex | Dec 12, 2023 | newsletter
A single 1976 $4.01 cheque from (and signed by) Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been sold at auction for a whopping $46,063. The cheque, written just four months after Apple was founded, was written for a purchase at Radio Shack, where co-founder Steve Wozniak...
by alex | Dec 12, 2023 | newsletter
Toyota Financial Services (TFS), a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, has warned customers that it recently suffered a data breach which exposed sensitive personal and financial data. The correspondence with affected customers follows Toyota confirming last month...
by alex | Dec 12, 2023 | newsletter
Berlin-based green search engine company Ecosia has released a chatbot with a “green answers” option and ploughs all its advertising profits into tree-planting. Ecosia AI Chat The not-for-profit company, which has been developing its “green search” since 2019 to...