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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…
Japan’s Affluent Embrace AI Pets as Their New Companions
December 29, 2024 – The companion robot LOVOT, created by the Japanese robotics company Groove X, is emerging as the new “pet” of wealthy individuals in Japan. According to the founder of LOVOT, the robot’s goal is to become a real-life Doraemon without the four-dimensional pocket. Unlike the famous cartoon character, LOVOT is not capable…
Google CEO Pichai Flags 2025 as ‘High Risk, High Stakes’ Year, Prioritizes Gemini Promotion
December 29, 2024 – According to a report by CNBC today, Google CEO Sundar Pichai informed employees last week that 2025 will be a year of “high risk and big bets” as the company faces intensifying competition, regulatory hurdles, and the rapid advancement of AI. Pichai stated, “I believe 2025 will be a pivotal year….