Welcome again to Week in Review. This week, we’re OpenAI’s reported plans for its subsequent AI mannequin; a buzzy new messaging app that’s a success with Gen Z; and Tim Cook discovering that you would be able to title a gaggle chat in iMessage. Let’s get into it.
The Verge famous this week that OpenAI is reportedly planning to launch its subsequent frontier AI mannequin, code-named Orion, by December. An OpenAI spokesperson denied the declare to TechCrunch, saying, “We don’t have plans to release a model code-named Orion this year.” But what meaning is anyone’s guess and leaves OpenAI substantial wiggle room.
Character.AI is being focused in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old boy whose mom says he turned obsessive about a chatbot on the platform. The firm mentioned it’s rolling out new security options, together with “improved detection, response, and intervention” associated to chats that violate its phrases of service and a notification when a person has spent an hour in a chat.
More than 100 million people had their non-public well being info stolen throughout the February ransomware assault on Change Healthcare. It’s the primary time that UnitedHealth Group, the medical insurance supplier that owns the corporate, has put a quantity on the quantity of people affected by the info breach; beforehand the corporate mentioned it anticipated the breach included information on a “substantial proportion of people in America.”
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Mira Murati’s subsequent transfer: Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly elevating greater than $100 million for a brand new AI startup, which is able to reportedly concentrate on constructing AI merchandise primarily based on proprietary fashions. Read extra
What’s in a (group chat) title? A current profile of Tim Cook revealed that he didn’t know you possibly can title your group chats in iMessage. Cook has since named a gaggle chat along with his former school roommates as merely “Roommates.” Read extra
Elon Musk’s chats with Putin: Elon Musk has reportedly been in common contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin since late 2022. The Wall Street Journal stories that the conversations have raised nationwide safety considerations amongst some intelligence officers. Read extra
Let Anthropic management your PC: Anthropic launched an upgraded model of Claude 3.5 Sonnet that may perceive and work together with any desktop app. The mannequin can imitate keystrokes, button clicks, and mouse gestures, basically emulating an individual sitting at a pc. Read extra
Smart glasses success: The Ray-Ban Meta sensible glasses are proving to be a bigger success than Meta initially anticipated. The glasses are the highest promoting product in 60% of all Ray-Ban shops all through Europe, the Middle East, and Africa — even earlier than its AI options roll out. Read extra
Artificial (intestine) intelligence: Throne is an Austin-based well being startup promoting a digicam that clips onto the aspect of a bathroom bowl and takes photos of your poop. Currently in beta, the system makes use of AI to look at your stool and decide issues like intestine well being and hydration. Read extra
Turn your cellphone into an e-reader: Bookcase, the most recent little bit of tech novelty from Astropad, is a case with a MagSafe mount and an NFC chip that allows you to maintain a smartphone like a Kindle for a extra comfy cellular e-reading expertise. Read extra
Midjourney comes for the net: Midjourney is releasing an upgraded software that lets customers edit any uploaded photographs from the net utilizing its generative AI. The upgraded software can even enable customers to retexture objects in photographs to “repaint” their colours and particulars based on captions. Read extra
A less expensive approach to get fuel: Amazon is providing Prime members a 10 cents per gallon low cost at round 7,000 Amoco, AM/PM, and BP fuel stations throughout the U.S. to fight excessive fuel costs — and problem…
