FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions and their effects on children

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

Anthropic is launching incognito chats, too.

OpenAI and Microsoft reach tentative deal to revise partnership

The deal with Microsoft resolves a major hurdle in OpenAI's planned corporate restructuring.

Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement

Edi Rama, PM, says digital assistant Diella will make Albania ‘a country where public tenders are 100% free of corruption’

Nvidia unveils Rubin CPX GPU with 128GB memory for enterprise AI workloads

Rubin CPX delivers 30 petaFLOPs of compute

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Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) issued the following statement regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) decision to launch an inquiry into artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots acting as a companion:

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others

The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.

The End Of Checkout? AI Agents Could Soon Be Buying Everything For You

The way people shop, pay and get paid is changing. Mastercard is moving quickly to avoid the risk of being left behind.

The FTC is investigating companies that make AI companion chatbots

The FTC is investigating companies who offer chatbots and their possible harms to children.

Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.

AMD says MI450 GPUs will outperform every Nvidia product including Rubin Ultra

The launch is being compared to AMD’s 2021 “Milan moment”

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbot companions from Meta, OpenAI, and others

The federal consumer regulator seeks to learn about how AI companies evaluate the safety of their chatbots.

Ted Cruz bill would let Big Tech go wild with AI experiments for 10 years

Ted Cruz won’t give up fight to block states from regulating AI.

Artificial Intelligence Stocks Rally as Nvidia, TSMC Gain on Oracle Growth Forecast

Oracle's Cloud Bet Sends AI Suppliers Soaring; Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC Shine

Levita Magnetics’ MARS platform uses AI-guided autonomous camera in first surgery

By reducing manual camera control, the AI-guided MARS platform aims to provide surgeons with a clearer, uninterrupted field of vision.

OpenAI, Meta, Google face probe into chatbot safety

The FTC wants to understand AI makers' guardrails, monetization and disclosures.

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta, five others

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from seven companies including Alphabet , Meta and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these firms measure, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of the technology.

What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?

Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts

The rise of LLMs in robotic surgery

With artificial intelligence (AI) becoming an omnipresent focus of innovation in the healthcare sector, it should come as no surprise that large language models’ (LLMs) application in robotic surgery is becoming an area of growing interest.

FTC launches inquiry into AI chatbots of Alphabet, Meta and others

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday said it is seeking information from several companies including Alphabet , Meta Platforms and OpenAI that provide consumer-facing AI-powered chatbots, on how these firms measure, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of the technology.

Visual Representation Alignment for Multimodal Large Language Models

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) trained with visual instruction tuning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, yet they remain limited in vision-centric tasks such as...

Albania appoints AI bot as minister to tackle corruption

A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.

Microsoft, OpenAI push for independence

OpenAI and Microsoft appear to be moving in distinct directions and with new partners.

Albania appoints world’s first AI-made minister

Diella, who is powered by artificial intelligence, will handle public procurement.