By Marty Swant • February 19, 2024 • 4 min read • Ivy Liu Beyond adding just a few new generative AI tools, some companies are using large language models to overhaul entire platforms for customers. Last week, Priceline added more features for Penny, an AI travel assistant that debuted last June. When it first was launched
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Post Office CEO refused to meet government minister without her
Post Office statements on the Horizon system, whether to journalists or the government, were routinely carefully crafted by lawyers By Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA Published: 14 Feb 2024 8:30 Former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells refused to meet a government minister without a lawyer in 2015 when he insisted on a
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Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement suit against OpenAI will advance in
Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against OpenAI will advance with some of her legal team’s claims dismissed. The comedian sued OpenAI and Meta in July 2023, claiming they trained their AI models on her books and other work without consent. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the unfair competition portion of the lawsuit will proceed. Judge Martínez-Olguín gave
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How LLMs are learning to differentiate spatial sounds
Humans have unique sensory functions, among them binaural hearing — meaning we can identify types of sound, as well as what direction it’s coming from and how far away it is, and we can also differentiate multiple sources of sound all occurring at once. While large language models (LLMs) are impressive in their ability to
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Knuckles Super Bowl trailer spins off Sonic movies into streaming
February 11, 2024 5:33 PM Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here . The trailer for the upcoming Knuckles series aired during the Super Bowl. The upcoming Paramount+ show — debuting April 26, 2024 — marks the first spin
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Microsoft in discussions with CISPE to remedy ‘unfair’ cloud software
adam121 - stock.adobe.com Software giant Microsoft has opened discussions with a European cloud trade body that has previously raised a formal complaint against the firm over its ‘unfair software licensing practices’ By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 08 Feb 2024 15:56 Microsoft has opened discussions with the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE)
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Super Bowl advertisers aim for mainstream appeal with AI-focused ads
This story is part of Digiday’s annual coverage of the Super Bowl. More from the series → Some AI brand names might sound like cadences and audibles, but the AI ads for this year’s Super Bowl have nothing to do with play calls. This Sunday, tech giants will use Super Bowl LVIII’s mainstream audience to
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Even Notepad is being tied to Copilot AI in Windows
Image: Microsoft You might think that, as a generic text editor, Notepad would sit out Microsoft’s AI roadmap. Nope. And Microsoft is also testing shortcuts in which Copilot can be used to trigger often-used actions, such as summarizing a page. Microsoft made a number of proposed changes that it’s testing out in its Canary and
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Here’s what a $7M, 30-second Super Bowl ad can purchase
By Kimeko McCoy • February 6, 2024 • 4 min read • Ivy Liu This story is part of Digiday’s annual coverage of the Super Bowl. More from the series → As the cord-cutting and streaming wars continue, the Super Bowl remains one of the last bastions for live events with a massive captive audience. To get
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Blackbaud blasted for failing to prevent customer breaches
A supply chain attack at software supplier Blackbaud in 2020 saw data on multiple UK organisations compromised. The US authorities are now taking steps to ensure it can’t happen again By Alex Scroxton, Security Editor Published: 05 Feb 2024 15:45 Three and a half years on from a devastating 2020 ransomware attack that led to