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Here's the latest tech news from the last 24 hours:
🤖 Google launches Gemini, its long-awaited answer to ChatGPT
💰 Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAI
🔍 Bing’s new GPT-4-powered 'Deep Search' feature
🛠 Jailbroken AI chatbots can jailbreak other chatbots
👀 Apple and Google are probably spying on your push notifications
🤖 Google launches Gemini, its long-awaited answer to ChatGPTLINK
Google launches Gemini, a new large language model in three versions: Nano, Pro, and Ultra, intended to enhance its products and services, including integration into its search engine, ad products, and Chrome browser. Gemini outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4 in 30 of 32 benchmarks, characterized by its multimodal capabilities in processing text, video, and audio inputs. Google focuses on the efficiency and safety aspects of Gemini, with plans for cautious deployment, particularly for the advanced Gemini Ultra version.
💰 Elon Musk is looking to raise $1 billion for xAILINK
Elon Musk's new AI company, xAI, has secured $134.7 million in financing towards a $1 billion goal for advancing artificial intelligence.
The start-up aims to create an AI named Grok, promising to be smarter and funnier than existing AI systems, and will be integrated with Musk's social media platform.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI and stepped down to avoid conflicts with Tesla's AI, is steering xAI with talents from top tech companies and research institutions.
🔍 Bing’s new GPT-4-powered 'Deep Search' featureLINK
Microsoft introduces Deep Search for Bing, leveraging GPT-4 to expand and elaborate on user queries, enabling more comprehensive searches on various related topics. Deep Search transforms vague queries into detailed prompts to generate more targeted search results, potentially including a wide range of related subjects. While Deep Search offers thorough search results, it requires up to 30 seconds per search, a significantly longer duration compared to standard Bing searches.
🛠 Jailbroken AI chatbots can jailbreak other chatbotsLINK
A new study reveals that AI chatbots can be manipulated to 'jailbreak' other chatbots, making them provide dangerous information, such as how to synthesize methamphetamine, build bombs, and launder money. The study demonstrated that by using one AI chatbot as a research assistant, it could develop prompts to bypass the safety protocols of other chatbots, with varying degrees of success against different AI models. This vulnerability in AI chatbots, inherent in their design, raises concerns about their ability to be controlled, especially as they are trained on information from the internet, including both positive and negative content.
👀 Apple and Google are probably spying on your push notificationsLINK
Senator Ron Wyden's office is pushing Apple and Google to disclose how they handle push notification data, amid concerns that this data might be handed over to governments upon request. Push notifications on smartphones, managed by providers like Apple and Google, could potentially be used for government surveillance, with these companies being compelled to hand over notification data. This issue highlights a privacy concern, where even apps committed to security cannot bypass the use of Apple or Google systems for push notifications, potentially exposing private messaging metadata to government scrutiny.
Other news you might like
Ex-OpenAI director Reid Hoffman says we still don't 'fully know' why board forced out Altman.LINK
Microsoft Copilot integrates GPT-4 Turbo to enhance longer, complex task handling and improve overall user work experience.LINK
Artificial intelligence makes gripping more intuitive (study).LINK
AI accelerates problem-solving in complex scenarios (study).LINK
Amazon slams Microsoft’s business practices in UK cloud market probe.LINK
Twitch is exiting the South Korean market due to unsustainable network costs, despite efforts to cut expenses and a significant local user base.LINK
Beeper Mini brings iMessage to Android by reverse-engineering Apple's protocol, offering true iMessage experiences without compromising security or needing Apple ID.LINK
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