OpenAI promises to defend business customers against copyright claims

November 6, 2023

OpenAI — bowing to peer pressure — today announced it’ll step in and defend businesses using OpenAI products if they face claims around copyright infringement as it pertains to OpenAI apps and services. As part of a new program, Copyright Shield, OpenAI says that it’ll pay the legal costs incurred by customers — specifically customers […]

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OpenAI launches GPT-4 Turbo and launches fine-tuning program for GPT-4

November 6, 2023

Today at its first-ever developer conference, OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, an improved version of its flagship text-generating AI model, GPT-4, that the company claims is both “more powerful” and less expensive. GPT-4 Turbo comes in two versions: one that’s strictly text-analyzing and a second version that understands the context of both text and images. The […]

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As OpenAI’s multimodal API launches broadly, research shows it’s still flawed

November 6, 2023

Today during its first-ever dev conference, OpenAI released new details of a version of GPT-4, the company’s flagship text-generating AI model, that can understand the context of images as well as text. This version, which OpenAI calls “GPT-4 with vision,” can caption and even interpret relatively complex images — for example identifying a Lightning Cable […]

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OpenAI launches API that lets developers build ‘assistants’ into their apps

November 6, 2023

At its developer conference, OpenAI announced a new API, the Assistant API, that it characterizes as step toward helping developers build “agent-like experiences” within their apps. Using the Assistant API, OpenAI customers can built an “assistant” that has specific instructions, leverages outside knowledge and can call OpenAI generative AI models and tools to perform tasks. […]

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YouTube to test generative AI features, including a comments summarizer and conversational tool

November 6, 2023

YouTube will begin to experiment with new generative AI features, the company announced today. As part of the premium package available to paid subscribers, YouTube users will be able to try out a new conversational tool that uses AI to answer questions about YouTube’s content and make recommendations, as well as try out a new […]

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US sanctions Russian accused of laundering Ryuk ransomware funds

November 6, 2023

The U.S. government has sanctioned a Russian national for allegedly laundering millions of dollars worth of victim ransom payments on behalf of individuals linked to the notorious Ryuk ransomware group. According to an announcement from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Ekaterina Zhdanova, 37, is accused of using virtual currency exchange transfers […]

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