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Just a day after Google inked a deal with The Associated Press, Mistral has announced a content deal with newswire Agence France-Presse (AFP) to improve the accuracy of answers in Le Chat, Mistral's chatbot. This is the first deal of this kind for the Paris-based artificial intelligence compan

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have used YouTube’s battle to remove pirated content to defend his own company’s use of a dataset containing copyrighted e-books, revealed in newly released snippets of a deposition he gave late last year. The deposition, which was part of a complain

Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. This week, MiniMax, an Alibaba- and Tencent-backed startup that has raised around $850 million in venture capital and is valued at more than $2.5 billion, debut

Younger Gen Zers are embracing OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT, for schoolwork, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. But it’s not clear that they’re fully aware of the tech’s pitfalls. In a follow-up to its 2023 poll on ChatGPT usage among young people

An uproar with a popular Kindle competitor e-reader has showcased how the use of Chinese AI models in U.S. products could unwittingly spread Chinese propaganda. A large language model (LLM) made by TikTok's parent company ByteDance was used by an e-reader called Boox, according to screenshots

François Chollet, an influential AI researcher, is launching a new startup that aims to build frontier AI systems with novel designs. The startup, Ndea, will consist of an AI research and science lab. It’s looking to “develop and operationalize” AGI. AGI, which stands for ̶

Hiya, folks, welcome to technewss's regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. This week was something of a swan song for the Biden administration. On Monday, the White House announced sweeping new restrictions on exporting AI ch

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini. Jaffer Zaidi, Google’s VP of global news partnerships, said that the goal is to “further enhance t

According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the U.K. alone, employers running graduate training schemes received an average of 140 applications for each job in 2024, 59% more than in 2023, according to the Institute of Student Employers. And despite som

OpenAI has begun testing a feature that lets new ChatGPT users sign up with only a phone number — no email required. The addition was spotted by software engineer Tibor Blaho. The feature is currently in beta in the U.S. and India. There are, however, some restrictions. Users wh

For years, Vyas Sekar would call up Muckai Girish, an old friend from undergrad, to talk through potential startup ideas and get Girish’s opinion. The two usually talked through an idea and ended the conversation at that. When Sekar called Girish with an idea involving synthetic data in early

Being interrupted is annoying. Apparently, even AI-generated podcast hosts agree. Or so Google NotebookLM’s users discovered. NotebookLM launched last year and went viral for its feature that creates entirely AI-generated podcast-like discussions from content users upload, discussed by chatt

OpenAI has appointed to its board of directors an executive at investment firm BlackRock. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an infrastructure investing platform, has joined OpenAI’s board, OpenAI announced

Paying users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now ask the AI assistant to schedule reminders or recurring requests. The new beta feature, called tasks, will start rolling out to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro users around the globe this week. With tasks, users can set simple reminders with ChatGPT such