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Inflection AI's CEO and co-founder, Mustafa Suleyman, has transitioned to Microsoft to lead the newly formed Microsoft AI division, encompassing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge. Karen Simonyan, another co-founder, is set to become the Chief Scientist of the team.

In a recent publication, SEC Chairman Gary Gensler recognized the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector but cautioned that not every company claiming to use AI is doing so, despite their assertive statements.

Artificial intelligence developer Inflection AI has introduced its latest creation, the Inflection-2.5 language model, powering its Pi personal assistant. Benchmarks indicate that this model competes on par with the likes of GPT-4 and Gemini, albeit requiring just 40% of the computational resources needed by GPT.

Shane Jones, an AI engineer from Microsoft, has spotlighted a significant flaw in Microsoft's Copilot Designer, an AI-driven image creator based on textual inputs, for its ability to generate explicit and violent imagery.

Google plans to downgrade the search ranking of websites that predominantly use artificial intelligence for content creation or employ underqualified writers. This initiative is aimed at improving the relevance and quality of search results for end-users.

Qualcomm, Google, Intel, and several other tech giants have established the UXL Foundation coalition to challenge Nvidia's AI market monopoly, which has propelled the company to a $2.2 trillion valuation.

With the new Blackwell B200 GPU chip, artificial intelligence will be able to train 2.5 times faster and improve response generation by a factor of five compared to its predecessor, the H100.

Apple is considering the integration of Google's generative AI, Gemini, into its existing iPhones as early as this year. The initial talks between the two technological powerhouses have kicked off recently, and they have yet to finalize the details and nuances of the deal.

Web traffic analysis reveals that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Turkey are at the forefront of countries showing keen interest in the integration of artificial intelligence with cryptocurrencies, with the United States alone contributing to 18.9% of this fascination. These findings were highlighted in the latest report by CoinGecko, which identified the top fifteen countries engaging with this trend.

U.S. authorities have arrested former Google engineer Linwei Ding on suspicion of stealing confidential data related to artificial intelligence development. Over a few years, he is alleged to have conducted four significant data heists, absconding with at least 500 varied and detailed documents.

The British Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has reported a staggering monthly 130% increase in disinformation on social network X, generated using artificial intelligence, over the past year. The study highlighted a significant rise in politically motivated deepfakes.

SV Angel, a venture capital fund, has rallied companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft to endorse an open letter urging the ethical development of artificial intelligence for the greater good of humanity. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, praised the initiative and signed it on behalf of the company.