There’s no escaping AI, it seems, with a researcher predicting the technology will “be in every nook and cranny” of big banks, and vaccine maker Moderna’s chief executive saying he wants employees to use ChatGPT at least 20 times a day. However, Meta’s attempt to put its Meta AI assistant across its platforms is annoying some users on Facebook and Instagram.
Check out those and more highlights from the week in AI news.
One of the world’s top vaccine makers is partnering with a major AI company to advance medicine — and its chief executive is excited.
An AI startup backed by Nvidia introduced its next generation of AI avatars that can understand context from text inputs and express human emotions, such as happiness, sadness, and excitement.
The U.S. isn’t slowing down its efforts to bring chipmaking stateside to compete with China, and the country’s largest maker of computer memory chips is next in line for federal funding.
Nvidia announced plans Wednesday to acquire Israeli AI startup Run:ai. While Nvidia didn’t disclose the terms of the transaction, an Israeli newspaper Calcalist reported that the chipmaker will buy Run:ai for $700 million in “the coming days.”
Big Tech’s investments into smaller AI firms to boost their spot in the AI race aren’t without some scrutiny.
Meta wants to be a player in the AI space, but its efforts to do so have some users annoyed.
After successfully completing its “halving,” Bitcoin is sitting strongly at $66,000, and crypto stocks are in celebration mode.
Microsoft’s AI chief said those building AI should make sure it’s easy for the public to comprehend it — and offered his own analogy to help do so.
An energy startup aimed at cleaning up artificial intelligence’s massive use of electricity is getting a multi-million dollar boost from investors, including the AI industry’s top leader.
American efforts to curb advanced chipmaking in China are working, a top U.S. official said. The chip used in sanctioned Chinese tech company Huawei’s Mate 60 Pro smartphone is not as advanced as chips being made in the U.S., Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said Sunday.
Banks have joined the artificial intelligence race, and they’re making rapid progress to turn the burgeoning technology into a mainstay in their business practices.
