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OpenAI CFO Calls Musk’s Suit a ‘Competitive Tactic,’ Says AI’s High Costs Make Nonprofit Model Unsustainable
January 22, 2025 – During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sarah Friar, the Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI, sat down for an interview with Bloomberg to discuss Elon Musk’s legal efforts to prevent OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit company. She characterized these actions as a form of competition. “We hope he doesn’t continue to…
Samsung and OpenAI Collaborate to Reinforce TV Market Leadership, Exploring AI Features Like Personalized Content and Translation
January 17, 2025 – According to a report published by South Korean media outlet MK on January 16th, Samsung is strengthening its leadership position in the television market through a partnership with OpenAI to jointly develop AI-powered televisions. The report cites that both parties have established an “open collaboration” and are currently coordinating specific plans….
ChatGPT as Your AI Personal Assistant: Customized News and Daily Plans at Your Command
January 15, 2025 – OpenAI Unveils Beta “Tasks” Feature for ChatGPT, Revolutionizing User Productivity In a recent tweet on platform X, OpenAI has excitedly announced the introduction of a “Tasks” feature for its ChatGPT chatbot, now available in beta form. This innovative addition enables users to set reminders, marking a significant step forward in enhancing…
Meta Sets Sights on 5% Layoffs, Focusing on Underachieving Employees
January 15, 2025 – In an internal memo released today, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced that the company is set to embark on a fresh round of layoffs aimed at elevating performance management standards and swiftly removing underperforming employees. This round of layoffs will impact roughly 5% of employees who have failed to…
NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron-CC: A Massive 6.3 Trillion Token AI Training Database
January 14, 2025 – NVIDIA has announced the launch of a massive English AI training database called Nemotron-CC, containing a total of 6.3 trillion tokens, with 1.9 trillion being synthetic data. According to NVIDIA, this training database is expected to significantly advance the training process of large language models for both academia and the corporate…
Zuckerberg Foresees AI Coding Abilities Rivaling Mid-Level Engineers in 2023
January 13, 2025 – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Meta, stated on the 11th that the field of software engineering is poised for a significant transformation by 2025. He predicts that AI systems will advance to a level where their programming skills rival those of intermediate-level engineers. Zuckerberg believes that Meta and other leading technology companies…
Siri’s Evolution: iOS 18.4 as an Appetizer, the Main Course Arrives with iOS 19.4 in 2026
January 9, 2025 – According to a report published by MacRumors yesterday (January 8), Apple is continuously refining its Siri voice assistant, with a major update slated for the iOS 19 release in 2026. Apple is planning to introduce several enhancements to Siri in the iOS/iPadOS 18.4 update, scheduled for April 2025. These improvements may…
Apple Addresses Inaccuracies in Apple Intelligence News Summaries, Promises Updates to Reduce Confusion
January 7, 2025 – Apple’s “AI”, Apple Intelligence, has recently garnered attention again due to generating inaccurate news summaries. In December 2024, the BBC reported that Apple Intelligence had misrepresented news content by producing summaries that were not aligned with the facts. Last Friday, the system erroneously published a false notification about a darts player…
Apple Asserts: Siri Data Never Sold, Emphasizes Privacy Protection
January 7, 2025 – Following its agreement to a $95 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit regarding Siri’s “eavesdropping” allegations, Apple released a statement emphasizing that the collected Siri data has never been utilized for advertising purposes or sold to third-party companies. In its official declaration, Apple stated: Since Siri’s inception, one of its core…
Microsoft Aims to Bolster AI Capabilities with $80 Billion Data Center Investment
January 4, 2025 – Microsoft has unveiled an ambitious plan to invest $80 billion in the 2025 fiscal year towards building data centers capable of supporting the computational demands of artificial intelligence. According to Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Vice-Chair and President, over half of this expenditure is expected to be allocated to the US market by…