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The worlds of technology and medicine are making big bets on AI playing a central role in the delivery of healthcare in the future. Today a startup out of Durham, NC, called Bionic Health —  built by two early movers in the commercializing of AI — is throwing its hat into that ring to build […]

Bionic Health raises $3M for its AI health clinic using GPT-4 and other ML models to design better preventative care by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

One of the big problems with generative AI is understanding what source material was used to train the large language models underlying the solution. This comes down to two main problems for users: Do they have permission to use that underlying work, and will the artist or writer be compensated for that use. In an […]

Adobe promises artists will be compensated fairly with new generative AI product, but is fuzzy on details by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy. Under the brand Nvidia AI Foundations, each individual cloud service — Nvidia NeMo for language models and Nvidia Picasso […]

Nvidia launches new cloud services and partnerships to train generative AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google just announced that the company is releasing its ChatGPT competitor Bard. But chances are you won’t be able to access the product right away as the company is starting with a limited public rollout. Users in the U.K. and the U.S. can head over to bard.google.com and join a waitlist. The company calls Bard […]

Google opens early access to Bard, its AI chatbot by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Ahead of his testimony before Congress on Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew announced in a TikTok video that the video app now has more than 150 million users in the US — up from 100 million in 2020. He also mentioned that TikTok hosts to more than 5 million businesses in the country. Amid […]

TikTok CEO takes to the app to announce company’s more than 150M active users in the U.S. by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

TikTok has another problem to add to its growing pile: Italy’s consumer watchdog has opened an investigation over user safety concerns — stepping in after a so-called “French scar” challenge went viral on the video sharing platform in which users have been seen apparently pinching their faces in order to create and show off red […]

TikTok ‘French Scar’ challenge triggers safety probe in Italy by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch