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European legislators vote to impose tighter controls on AI
European lawmakers today voted on amendments to the European Union’s “AI Act” draft legislation aimed at tightening regulations over generative artificial intelligence, including bans on biometric surveillance, predictive policing and expanded definitions of “high-risk AI.” Two legislative bodies joined to negotiate amended text for the AI Act, the International Market Committee and the Civil Liberties ...
Google rolls out tools for developers to build machine learning and AI into their products
Google LLC is rolling out a number of tools for developers to build machine learning and artificial intelligence into their applications using high-performance AI models and solutions. At Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, a number of new tools for TensorFlow were announced today. TensorFlow is a free, open-source software library for machine learning ...
Android Studio gets a new AI-powered coding assistant named Studio Bot
Google LLC today announced a number of new updates to Android Studio, the official integrated development environment for Android, including a new artificial intelligence-powered productivity assistant aimed at simplifying developers’ lives. The new AI assistant, named Studio Bot, was added into Android Studio Hedgehog, the canary build of Studio that incorporates experimental features. Studio Bot ...
Google introduces generative AI for Workspace and Cloud with Duet AI assistant
Google LLC has been moving swiftly to add artificial intelligence collaboration across its products, and today during its Google I/O developer conference, the company announced that people can collaborate with an AI assistant in Google Workspace. Google has embedded a generative AI called “Duet AI for Workspace” into Gmail, Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet that ...
Google Cloud launches new generative AI features for Vertex AI
Google LLC’s cloud division today announced new features in its Vertex AI platform to help businesses use generative artificial intelligence in their own software by providing them with new tools to build and transform their own models. In today’s announcement at this year’s Google I/O, Google Cloud unveiled two major features, including a new foundation ...
Google unveils PaLM 2, its most powerful general-purpose AI yet, to power Bard chatbot
Artificial intelligence took the center stage today at Google LLC’s annual developer conference Google I/O with the unveiling of PaLM 2, the second iteration of the Pathways Language Model. It’s a transformer-based large language model artificial intelligence developed by Google Research that powers the company’s Bard AI chatbot and other products. PaLM 2 brings a number ...
Google and OpenAI struggling to keep up with open-source AI, senior engineer warns
Google LLC and ChatGPT developer OpenAI LP face increasing competition from open-source developers in the field of generative artificial intelligence, which may threaten to overcome them, a senior Google engineer warned in a leaked document. The engineer, identified as Luke Sernau by Bloomberg, published the document named “We Have No Moat and Neither Does OpenAI” ...
Shopify cuts staff by 20% and sells logistics arm to Flexiport
Shopify Inc., an e-commerce giant that builds platforms for the enterprise and small businesses, announced today that it’s laying off 20% of its workforce, affecting more than 2,000 employees, and will sell most of its logistics business to Flexiport Inc. This news comes less than a year after the company let go 10% of its ...
Microsoft supercharges Bing Chat and Edge with new AI-powered features
With the global phenomenon of generative artificial intelligence sweeping the industry, Microsoft Corp. today announced that it’s bringing new features to its Bing Chat AI-powered search designed to provide a richer search experience for users. Bing’s AI search has also been opened up to more people by moving it from a limited preview to open ...
Salesforce builds generative AI features into Slack
Salesforce Inc. today announced that its collaboration platform Slack will be getting native conversational artificial intelligence integration with Slack GPT, building the AI directly into the chat interface. With Slack GPT the new features will use generative AI and the ability to access company customer data directly from Salesforce’s customer relationship management systems such as ...