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GitHub Expands Availability of AI Assistant Designed for Developers
December 29, 2023

GitHub has made Copilot Chat generally available for organizations and individuals, allowing GitHub Copilot users to benefit from natural language-powered coding at no additional cost. As part of GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered developer platform, Copilot Chat “enables the rise of natural language as the new...

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AI as OS Will Transform the Future of Connected Devices
December 29, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) ushered in a transformative phase shift this past year. And that phase shift — akin to the commercialization of the internet — has kicked off an AI arms race among the biggest tech companies as well as the most well-funded and...

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EU Digital Chief Margrethe Vestager Says AI Act Enhances Innovation
December 29, 2023

The European Union’s (EU) competition and digital chief, Margrethe Vestager, has come forward to defend the EU’s landmark law on artificial intelligence (AI). Following criticism of the Artificial Intelligence Act, Vestager argued that the proposed act will provide “legal certainty” for tech startups building AI...

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Year in Review: The Milestones That Transformed AI in 2023
December 29, 2023

2023 was the year of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom. What was perhaps the innovation’s greatest trick to date was fitting a decade’s worth of technical and marketplace advances into just one year — and what a year it was. Over the past 365...

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Publishers Meet With OpenAI to Discuss Licensing Content
December 29, 2023

Several news media publishers have reportedly met with OpenAI to discuss licensing their content for use in training that firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) models. The publishers meeting with OpenAI included Wall Street Journal owner News Corp., Dotdash Meredith owner IAC, USA Today owner Gannett and...

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How AI Is Optimizing Trucking Operations
December 29, 2023

A lot can change in a year, and artificial intelligence (AI) is the perfect example. “Artificial intelligence has been in the market for a lot of years, but it’s been the past year that the space has been revolutionized,” Jaime Tabachnik, co-founder and CEO at...

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Baidu’s Ernie Chatbot Reaches 100 Million Users
December 28, 2023

Baidu’s Ernie artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has reportedly amassed 100 million-plus users. The Chinese internet company announced that milestone at a Thursday (Dec. 28) deep learning summit in Beijing, Reuters reported. Baidu launched Ernie in August after the Chinese government gave some tech companies the go-ahead to release...

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Study: ChatGPT Both Helpful and ‘Junk Food’ for Workers
December 28, 2023

Is ChatGPT a help or a hindrance for white-collar workers? A new Harvard Business School study suggests it might be a bit of both. The study, the subject of a Thursday (Dec. 28) New York Times (NYT) article, examined how ChatGPT — the artificial intelligence (AI) tool from OpenAI —...

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How Gen AI Helped Healthcare Get Smarter
December 27, 2023

The intersection of healthcare and artificial intelligence (AI) was one of 2023’s most exciting storylines. Across sector-critical areas including medical imaging and pathology, telemedicine, personalized patient engagement, new drug discovery, remote monitoring, administrative tasks and EHR (electronic health record) data entry, even clinical decisioning and beyond, innovative software...