AI Update - Friday, October 18, 2024

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? ChatGPT comes to Windows

ChatGPT is now on Windows.

Today, OpenAI?announced?that it’s begun?previewing?a dedicated Windows app for?ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform.

? Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising

Google CEO Sundar Pichai?announced?on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist.

? Microsoft could end up with substantial equity in the restructured, for-profit OpenAI

How much equity in OpenAI will Microsoft get once the former?becomes a for-profit company? That’s the multibillion-dollar question — one the two parties are racing to answer ahead of a two-year deadline.

? Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter)?updated?its?Privacy Policy?to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s?Grok AI chatbot?on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, the company hadn’t yet amended its policy to indicate its data may also be used by third parties.

? Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn’t think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. And he (not surprisingly) blames Microsoft.

? Nebius to resume Nasdaq trading after severing ties with Russia and Yandex

Nebius, the company formerly known as Yandex that’s now focused on cloud infrastructure for AI uses (aka “AI compute”), is to begin trading on the public markets once again — more than two years after the Nasdaq?halted trading?due to economic sanctions imposed in the wake of?Russia’s Ukraine invasion?in 2022.