Last month, I reported on the widening web of connections between the effective altruism (EA) movement and AI security policy circles — from top AI startups like Anthropic to DC think tanks like RAND Corporation. These are linking EA, with its laser-focus on preventing what its adherents say are catastrophic risks to humanity from future AGI, to a wide swath of DC think tanks, government…
PwC survey: 77% of CEOs concerned about AI cybersecurity risks
January 16, 2024
Today, almost every enterprise wants to jump on the generative AI bandwagon. They are building interesting new solutions and are bullish on the prospects of the foundation models.
However, according to a new survey of global CEOs conducted by PwC, despite all major…
VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour launches with focus on bleeding edge of generative AI and governance
January 15, 2024
VentureBeat launched our AI Impact Tour this week with an event in San Francisco, which included talks about the swift adoption of generative AI in the banking industry, and the cutting-edge areas around governance of the technology.
Our AI Impact Tour is a series of events…
After AI’s summer: What’s next for artificial intelligence?
January 15, 2024
By any measure, 2023 was an amazing year for AI. Large language Models (LLMs) and their chatbot applications stole the show, but there were advances across a broad swath of uses. These include image, video and voice generation.
The combination of these digital technologies have led to new use cases and business models, even to the point where digital humans are becoming commonplace, replacing…
As the retail industry gears up for the big NRF 2024 conference that gets started on Jan. 13, it is clear that generative AI will be top of mind for many and Google is aiming to be a key part of the action.
Today Google Cloud announced a series of AI technologies and…
Microsoft wants to make it easier for marketers to build campaigns and it’s integrating with technology from generative AI startup Typeface to get it done.
Today Microsoft and Typeface announced an integration that will see the startup’s highly-customizable generative AI…
One of the world’s largest AI training datasets is about to get bigger and ‘substantially better’
January 12, 2024
Massive AI training datasets, or corpora, have been called “the backbone of large language models.” But EleutherAI, the organization that created one of the world’s largest of these datasets, an 825 GB open-sourced diverse text corpora called the Pile, became a target in 2023 amid a growing uproar focused on the legal and ethical impact of the datasets that trained the most popular LLMs…
Legacy tech giants Microsoft and SAP are elbowing into the retail industry’s rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, hoping their new tools will help retailers struggling to keep pace with changing consumer behaviors and unrelenting market volatility.
This week…
OpenAI launches new ChatGPT Team tier targeting SMBs
January 11, 2024
OpenAI is moving more aggressively to corner the market on generative AI for enterprises large and small.
Today, the maker of ChatGPT is announcing a new subscription tier that slots in neatly between its ChatGPT Plus paid subscription for individual users ($20 per month)…
AppsFlyer has introduced its AI-powered Creative Optimization tool to transform marketing campaigns.
San Francisco-based AppsFlyer aims to transform the landscape of marketing campaigns by using AI to improve the creative process, using AI to give marketers new insights into their creative assets and data-driven guidance to maximize impact.
The Creative Optimization product empowers marketing…
