AI Act: Europe is blind to the law’s innovation problems
For Europe, the AI Act is all about gaining trust. Companies and residents of the EU must be assured that available AI tools do not pose a risk to privacy, for example. The EU says it has perfectly reconciled this goal with the ability to innovate. This can be seen in the milder rules that st... Read more
Investigation into OpenAI’s Sam Altman resignation closed
Sam Altman is taking back his position on OpenAI's board of directors. This move also immediately means that the investigation surrounding Altman's earlier resignation has come to an end.
The investigation is clear on the reason for Altman's resignation from OpenAI, which was entirely due to a ... Read more
Salesforce Einstein 1 Studio allows organizations to easily apply genAI
Salesforce is one of the first to launch an enterprise AI solution, and it sets the bar extremely high. Every Salesforce application now has Einstein Copilot, which organisations can fully customize with Einstein 1 Studio. Salesforce makes AI available within all Salesforce applications through no-... Read more
Knowledge workers have an unhealthy relationship with work: can AI fix it?
According to HP's Work Relationship Index, only 27 percent of more than 15,000 respondents to the survey have a healthy relationship with their work. But not to worry, because AI is going to solve this. At least that is the expectation of knowledge workers and decision makers within organizations, ... Read more
‘Claude 3 is better than GPT-4 and Gemini’: OpenAI has more and more competitors
Anthropic is throwing a new version of Claude into the fray against OpenAI's GPT-4. Claude 3 outperforms GPT-4, according to testing by the company. That makes Claude 3 the second LLM to outperform GPT-4. Google already beat the model with Gemini Ultra, but Anthropic says Claude 3 also outperforms ... Read more
ChatGPT can now read responses aloud
OpenAI introduces the Read Aloud update for ChatGPT, a GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 feature that reads responses aloud.
The reading is done in the same language a user chats with ChatGPT. Read Aloud supports a total of 37 languages, including Dutch. Users can also choose from five voices to read the respon... Read more
WordPress in negotiations with OpenAI and Midjourney over AI deal
Automattic announced that it is negotiating with OpenAI and Midjourney for an AI deal. With this deal user data from WordPress users, among others, will enter training data for LLMs from these AI companies. WordPress has stated that it will not share data coming from its paying WordPress VIP users.... Read more
LLM for Europe: Mistral AI puts Europe on the AI map
A French AI start-up signed partnerships with AWS and Microsoft this week. Will Europe have its own OpenAI? Primarily, Microsoft's interest in this start-up is important to answer that question. After all, this company before worked exclusively with OpenAI.
Mistral AI was already praised by Eur... Read more
Frank Slootman quits as CEO of Snowflake
Dutch-born Frank Slootman is stepping down as chief executive officer of data company Snowflake effective immediately. He will stay on as chairman of the supervisory board.
The company announced this during the presentation of its financial figures. Slootman was appointed CEO of Snowflake in May... Read more
Majority of consumers see AI improves shopping experience
Frontline copilots, voice-activated wearables and demand forecasting are some options to make retail more appealing. 69 per cent of consumers also expect AI to improve their shopping experience.
That's according to research by Zebra Technologies. Decision makers are also convinced: 85 per cent b... Read more