Today, General Motors, Cruise, and Honda announced a joint venture to launch a robotaxi service in Japan. The companies plan to launch the service in central Tokyo in early 2026 with Cruise Origin vehicles. The service will launch with dozens of Cruise Origins. The companies plan to expand the service …
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At its Google for India event, Google announced several generative AI tools. The features include images, videos, and government scheme information. Google announced today that users will be able to view summaries of over 100 Indian government-led schemes in the coming weeks. The feature will provide Hindi and English information. …
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Google Maps will soon let Indian users book metro tickets directly through the app as it expands its partnership with the country’s open e-commerce network. After partnering with Open Network for Digital Commerce, Google announced at the Google for India event on Thursday that Maps users can book metro tickets. …
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A Google executive said the company will start assembling its Pixel smartphones in India, becoming the latest tech giant to target the South Asian market. Rick Osterloh, Senior VP of Devices and Services at Google, announced at the company’s annual India event Thursday that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 …
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An Israeli official said Tuesday that Israel is in talks with SpaceX to provide Starlink internet services, especially to conflict zones. Starlink has never been offered in Israel, so this would be the first time. That official said it is considering halting cell and internet communications in Gaza to boost …
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Tesla dominates the U.S. electric vehicle market. Now it wants stricter regulations to gain an edge. Tesla is urging the Biden administration to adopt stricter fuel economy standards than regulators have proposed, which will irritate legacy automakers like General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis. These three companies face $10.5 billion in …
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X, formerly Twitter, announced today that it will experiment with charging “new unverified” users $1 per year to interact with posts. The company said this test is live in New Zealand and the Philippines and won’t affect existing users. Users can post, like, repost, reply, bookmark, and quote for that …
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Three weeks after relaunching its internet-browsing feature in beta after months, OpenAI launched it on ChatGPT. Until September 2021, ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has taken the world by storm, was limited to data, making it useless as a real-time search engine. OpenAI began offering internet services to ChatGPT …
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Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC, Comcast Ventures, Ex/ante, Parameter Ventures, and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant. Co-founder and CEO Ben Colman plans to double Reality Defender’s 23-person team next …
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Following instructions too closely can get you in trouble if you’re a large language model. A new Microsoft-affiliated scientific paper examined the “trustworthiness” and toxicity of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. The co-authors suggest that GPT-4 may be more susceptible to “jailbreaking” prompts that bypass the …
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