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Apple’s App Store, Meta’s AI Assistant Face Challenges in Europe
Regulation // June 14, 2024

Two American tech giants are reportedly facing new regulatory challenges in Europe. One case involves Apple’s App Store, while the other centers on Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI. The Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (June 14) that the European Commision (EC) will bring charges against Apple after determining that...

Nvidia Unveils Open Model That Creates LLM Training Data
artificial intelligence // June 14, 2024

As concerns grow that large language models (LLMs) are running out of high-quality training data, Nvidia has released Nemotron-4 340B, a family of open models designed to generate synthetic data for training LLMs across various industries. LLMs are artificial intelligence (AI) models that can understand...

Sidetrade Adds AI Agent to Order-to-Cash Applications
artificial intelligence // June 10, 2024

Sidetrade has added generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) features to its AI-powered order-to-cash (O2C) applications. The first of these features is an AI agent called “Ask Aimie,” the company said in a Monday (June 10) press release. “Our ambition is to revolutionize the order-to-cash landscape,” Sidetrade...

OpenAI Content Deals Leave News Writers Alarmed
artificial intelligence // June 02, 2024

OpenAI’s recent content-licensing deals with Vox and The Atlantic have writers for those publications worried. As Ars Technica wrote Friday (May 31), the deals will let the artificial intelligence (AI) company use works from the two publications to train its models. However, some writers aren’t...

Interviews & Exclusives
OpenAI Delivers Subscription Model Upgrade for GPT-4o

May 13, 2024
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind the widely popular ChatGPT, announced Monday (May 13) the launch of GPT-4o — with “o” meaning “omni” — a new language model free for all users. The text, vision and audio processing improvements could boost commerce applications. “GPT-4o is much faster and enhances capabilities across text, vision, and audio,” said Mira […]

AI Faces a Data Drought … for Real

April 10, 2024
The demand for high-quality data, essential for powering artificial intelligence (AI) conversational tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, may soon outstrip supply and potentially stall AI progress, industry analysts warned. The exponential...

Music Industry Confronts AI Compensation Issue 

April 09, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is bringing unimaginable opportunities and efficiencies to nearly every sector.  However, those opportunities and efficiencies also come with their own controversies and complications, particularly across the creative...

Warning Shots Fired Over AI Hype vs Reality

April 02, 2024
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked a heated debate among experts, with some warning that the hype surrounding the technology may be overshadowing genuine scientific advancements. DeepMind...

Quick Reads
Apple’s App Store, Meta’s AI Assistant Face Challenges in Europe

June 14, 2024
Two American tech giants are reportedly facing new regulatory challenges in Europe. One case involves Apple’s App Store, while the other centers on Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant, Meta AI. The Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (June 14) that the European Commision (EC) will bring charges against Apple after determining that the company is not complying with a requirement that it […]

Sidetrade Adds AI Agent to Order-to-Cash Applications

June 10, 2024
Sidetrade has added generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) features to its AI-powered order-to-cash (O2C) applications. The first of these features is an AI agent called “Ask Aimie,” the company said in...

OpenAI Content Deals Leave News Writers Alarmed

June 02, 2024
OpenAI’s recent content-licensing deals with Vox and The Atlantic have writers for those publications worried. As Ars Technica wrote Friday (May 31), the deals will let the artificial intelligence (AI)...

UK Wants More Transparency Into AI Models

May 19, 2024
The U.K. is reportedly working toward greater transparency into how tech firms train artificial intelligence (AI) models. These efforts, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (May 19), come as creators...