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Amazon Tries to Help Alexa Get Personal

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Today, a patent application for making Amazon’s voice assistants more personal highlights the race – and roadblocks – to creation of an AI-powered Alexa.

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Social Media

Elon Musk’s X Just Got More Valuable, Fidelity Says

Ignore the high-profile exodus of users to BlueSky and Meta’s Threads. Elon Musk’s X, née Twitter, might be doing just fine.

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Meta To Try Out AI Business Tools as Enterprise Market Heats Up

A patent for AI chip architecture from Meta could make model development more robust as it builds AI tools for businesses.

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Why Salesforce Might Be Eying AI Image Generation

The tech could make graphics generation more intuitive as the company continues its push towards AI agents.

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Big Tech

Amazon Pours Another $4 billion into Anthropic

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It’s not quite Christmas yet, but Amazon is putting cash in the stocking of its favorite AI startup, Anthropic.

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Nvidia May Take Humans out of the Data Center Equation

The filing signals that the company wants to be a thought leader in the data center space.

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Media & Entertainment

Andreessen Horowitz Backs Generative AI TV and Film Studio

Will generative artificial intelligence’s star be added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame? Andreessen Horowitz sure thinks so.

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Adobe Wants to Fix When AI Starts to Drift

Adobe wants to stop AI models from losing their trains of thought.

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Disney Doesn’t Want to be Left Behind in AI

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The company’s recent patent signals that AI is coming both for the world of advertising and entertainment at large.

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AI Startup Anthropic to Partner With Palantir, AWS to Sell to Intelligence and Defense Agencies

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AI startup Anthropic is teaming up with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to get its wares into the intelligence and military market.

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IBM May Pay Closer Attention to AI Risk Amid Model Boom

The context in which an AI model is used can change how much risk it presents, and who it affects.

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Bezos Invests in Robot ‘Brains’

Jeff Bezos joined a $400 million fundraising round for Physical Intelligence, which is trying to make AI software that can control any robot.

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Microsoft Patent Could Make AI Integration More Personalized

A patent from Microsoft that aims to make AI model integration more seamless highlights the bumpy road it may face with Copilot adoption

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