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On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, first spotted by Value Added Resource. On its face, a one-line terms of service update doesn’t seem like major news, but what it implies is more significant: The change reflects […]
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The last time we did comparative tests of AI models from OpenAI and Google at Ars was in late 2023, when Google’s offering was still called Bard. In the roughly two years since, a lot has happened in the world of artificial intelligence. And now that Apple has made the consequential decision to partner with
Has Gemini surpassed ChatGPT? We put the AI models to the test. Read More »
Google’s AI platform Gemini has entered the Indian Premier League (IPL) as a sponsor through a three-year agreement estimated at around ₹270 crore, The Economic Times reported. The deal reflects the growing presence of AI companies in Indian cricket sponsorships. While the exact terms of the agreement are not public, the deal is expected to
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Exclusive: Amazon, Meta and X among firms holding hundreds of meetings with people at heart of government, data showsTech companies have been meeting government ministers at a rate of more than once per working day, enjoying high-level political access that dwarfs that of child safety and copyright campaigners, who called the pattern “shocking” and “disturbing”.Amazon,
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Progress of artificial general intelligence could stall, which may lead to a financial crash, says Yoshua Bengio, one of the ‘godfathers’ of modern AIWill the race to artificial general intelligence (AGI) lead us to a land of financial plenty – or will it end in a 2008-style bust? Trillions of dollars rest on the answer.The
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Apple har äntligen gjort det som många väntat på, de har slagit sig samman med Google för att ge Siri den AI-boost den så desperat behövt. Efter år av kritik för att Siri varit tråkig jämfört med konkurrenter som ChatGPT och Google Assistant, är det dags för en riktig uppgradering. Efter noggrann utvärdering av flera
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On Friday, OpenAI announced it will begin testing advertisements inside the ChatGPT app for some US users in a bid to expand its customer base and diversify revenue. The move represents a reversal for CEO Sam Altman, who in 2024 described advertising in ChatGPT as a “last resort” and expressed concerns that ads could erode
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On Thursday, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported record fourth-quarter earnings and said it expects AI chip demand to continue for years. During an earnings call, CEO C.C. Wei told investors that while he cannot predict the semiconductor industry’s long-term trajectory, he remains bullish on AI. TSMC manufactures chips for companies including Apple, Nvidia, AMD,
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Google on January 15, announced TranslateGemma, a new suite of open translation models built on Gemma 3, to support text translation across 55 languages. The models are available in 4B, 12B, and 27B parameter sizes and are intended for use across mobile, local, and cloud environments, the company said. According to Google, TranslateGemma offers higher
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On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to charge major tech companies for using Wikipedia content to train the AI models that power AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. While these same companies previously scraped Wikipedia without permission, the deals mean
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