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OpenAI has begun a limited rollout of text watermarking and detection technologies, the company said in an article released Monday (Oct. 5). OpenAI built the technologies in response to the European Union’s AI Act, which requires generative artificial intelligence providers to make AI-generated text...
A law passed in 1968 is apparently driving a new surge in privacy violation settlements. That’s according to new research published Monday (Oct. 5) by privacy platform Privado AI, showing that American companies are on track this year to pay upwards of $1.4 billion to settle claims that their websit...
A L’Oréal adviser who needed to issue a customer a discount code once clicked through about 15 screens over 10 minutes. Now the adviser types a prompt, and artificial intelligence generates the code in about 1 minute, Salesforce reported. Across 25 North American brands, that kind of help has cut av...
OpenAI says it is making advertisements within ChatGPT more visual and measurable. The company’s new visual ad format is designed to help users “imagine how products and services could fit into their lives,” as the artificial intelligence (AI) company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) news release. “Through...
Loyalty points are becoming more liquid as airlines give customers more choices over when and how much of their accumulated rewards to spend. American Airlines said in a Friday (Oct. 2) press release that AAdvantage members will soon be able to combine miles with cash when buying tickets, PYMNTS rep...
It may be time for investors to pivot from artificial intelligence-linked capital expenditures to consumer-driven spending, Bank of America strategists wrote in a Monday (Oct. 5) note, according to a Bloomberg report. The abundance of AI spending and the shrinking of discretionary spending are alrea...
Microsoft and Meta each reduced their internal use of Anthropic’s Claude by encouraging employees to use their company’s own, in-house artificial intelligence tools, The Information reported Monday (Oct. 5), citing unnamed sources. Microsoft was on track to spend $1 billion this year on internal use...
Last month, the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, a bill designed to establish a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency. And as CoinDesk reported Sunday (Oct. 4), there is a shrinking window for lawmakers to pass the law this year, leaving regulatory bodies to fill the gap and raising quest...
Apple is changing its Mac operating system to make it clearer when artificial intelligence agents seek access to the devices’ data. In a Friday (Oct. 2) blog post, the company noted that Macs feature a “Full Disk Access” option that lets apps access all the data on a machine, with a user’s consent. ...
As automotive technology evolves, cars are getting more and more expensive to repair. That’s because repair shops are being forced to spend more on software and calibration equipment, expenses that are being passed onto drivers, CNBC reported Saturday (Oct. 3). “The repairs of these vehicles are so ...
American consumer spending remains undaunted by inflation, though it is requiring people to grow more resourceful. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 3) by Bloomberg News, which said these resources include accessing their home equity, using food banks to save money for other purchases, or ...
The White House has reportedly given its artificial intelligence task force 120 days to report on the risks and potential rewards of the technology. That’s according to a report Saturday (Oct. 3) from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing comments by Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligenc...
