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Australia’s competition watchdog has sued Microsoft Corp. over the way the company rolled out artificial intelligence features to its productivity suite. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or ACCC, filed the complaint today. The lawsuit focuses on the Personal and Family editions …
AMD, HPE to build two new supercomputers for the Energy Department
The U.S. Energy Department has commissioned two new supercomputers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc. silicon. Reuters reported today that the project is worth $1 billion. It will be funded with a combination of public and private sector funding. The U.S. government …
Qualcomm debuts AI200, AI250 data center AI chips
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today introduced a pair of artificial intelligence chips designed for use in data centers. Shares of the company jumped more than 15% on the news at one point. Its stock is currently up about 11%. The two new chips, …
New ‘company knowledge’ feature enables ChatGPT to search files in external services
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT with a new feature that enables the chatbot to analyze data users keep in third-party services. The capability, which is known simply as “company knowledge,” made its debut on Thursday. It’s included in ChatGPT’s Business, Enterprise and Edu …
Dropbox debuts new search features, acquires AI startup Mobius Labs
Dropbox Inc. today introduced new artificial intelligence features that will make it easier for users to search the files they keep in its platform. The company also announced that it has acquired Mobius Labs GmbH, a venture-backed AI model developer. Dropbox will …
Meet Mico: Microsoft extends Copilot with new automation, collaboration features
Microsoft Corp. today released a new version of Copilot that can automate a broader range of tasks for users. The first enhancement to the artificial intelligence assistant is a feature called Groups. According to Microsoft, it will enable up to 32 users to …
OpenAI, Oracle and Vantage to build $15B+ data center campus in Wisconsin
OpenAI, Oracle Corp. and Vantage Data Centers LLC plan to build a Stargate campus in Wisconsin at a cost of more than $15 billion. The companies announced the project late Wednesday. At full capacity, the campus will host four data centers with …
Gimlet Labs launches with $12M to port AI agents across chips
Artificial intelligence startup Gimlet Labs Inc. launched today with $12 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Factory led the consortium. It was joined by Intel Corp. Chief Executive Lip-Bu Tan, Figma Inc. CEO Dylan Field, former VMware Inc. CEO …
FalconX acquires crypto fund provider 21Shares
FalconX Ltd., a startup that provides crypto investment tools, today announced plans to acquire fellow digital asset company 21Shares AG. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to the Wall Street Journal, FalconX will finance the transaction with a combination …
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio sign statement urging suspension of AGI development
Hundreds of scientists, politicians, entrepreneurs and artists have signed a statement urging the suspension of efforts to develop artificial general intelligence, or AGI. The brief document was published today on the website of the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit co-founded by …