Advancers
Wall St kicks off 2024 on a dull note as yields rise, Apple dips
U.S. stocks fell on the first trading day of 2024 after investors tempered expectations around interest-rate cuts this year.
AI
Calif. News Company Claims They Will Be Replacing Humans With AI-Generated Anchors
Channel 1, a news network located in Los Angeles, California, says that starting next year in 2024, it will be the first U.S. news station to use artificial intelligence (AI) in order to “create news anchors.”
AI training
Pulitzer-winning authors join OpenAI, Microsoft copyright lawsuit
A group of 11 nonfiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books the authors have written to train their models.
Activision Blizzard
Microsoft, AFL-CIO reach deal on AI, labor neutrality
Microsoft and the AFL-CIO union federation said they had struck a deal whereby the software giant will remain neutral in efforts by unions to encourage workers to become members.
AI
AI-Powered Fast Food Drive Thrus Make ‘So Many Errors’ That Workers Must Intervene 70% Of The Time, Employees Say
An artificial intelligence company that serves the likes of fast food brands like Carl’s Jr., Hardee’s, Del Taco, and Checkers has now acknowledged that most orders require human participation.
AI
Meta to introduce watermarking feature for some AI products
Meta Platforms will add invisible watermarking to its text-to-image generation product imagine with Meta AI chatbot in the coming weeks to enhance transparency.
000 already-known materials
Google DeepMind AI reveals potential for thousands of new materials
4:05 PM UTC – November 29, 2023 LONDON (Reuters) – Google DeepMind has used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the structure of…
16 European countries
AI threatens wages, not jobs – so far, ECB paper finds
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence could reduce wages, but so far is creating, not destroying jobs.
AI-powered
Spotify to use Google’s AI to tailor podcasts, audiobooks recommendations
Spotify expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to use large language models to help identify a user’s listening patterns across podcasts and audiobooks.
Ai Pin
Wearable ‘Ai Pin’ launched by Humane, backed by ex-Apple execs and Microsoft
Humane released a $699 device that aims to bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence to a lapel near you.