Two senators have sent a letter to multiple AI companion companies requesting information about their safety practices, including details about internal safety assessments and timelines of the implementation of guardrails, as CNN reported yesterday. The action follows the filing of two high-profile child welfare lawsuits against the Google-tied chatbot startup Character.AI, which has been accused in court…
City governments across China have launched online services featuring DeepSeek while local officials studied the AI start-up, which has emerged as a challenger to US rivals such as OpenAI. Nanfang Daily, a Communist Party-affiliated newspaper in the southern province of Guangdong, reported on Sunday that senior officials in the city of Zhuhai had “watched reports…
HONG KONG — China’s chatbot market, led by TikTok owner ByteDance and startup Moonshot, is in for a shakeup after Tencent announced it was joining the growing list of Big Tech players embracing DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence model. Tencent has begun beta testing access to DeepSeek on Weixin, the domestic version of its WeChat app, according…
BEIJING – Alibaba’s announcement this week that it will partner with Apple to support iPhones’ artificial intelligence services offering in China has again thrust the spotlight on the country’s AI industry on the heels of DeepSeek. Following are some of the prominent AI services and their developers to watch in China. Developed by ByteDance, a…
The Hangzhou-based company sent shock waves across Wall Street and Silicon Valley for developing AI models at a fraction of the cost compared with OpenAI and Meta Platforms, which prompted US President Donald Trump to call the breakthrough a “wake-up call” and “positive” for America’s tech sector. At home, Chinese tech executives and various commentators…
Investors in Hong Kong are bracing for a Year of the Snake full of uncertainties and some market participants are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) and feng shui masters to determine what lies ahead. The Hang Seng Index will be flat in the first quarter, it will rise in the second quarter and will decline…
SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — There’s a growing list of mental health support apps using AI to counsel people, and these apps can be hard to navigate through. State officials say these apps have a lot of potential to help many Utahns, but they also have to protect people from getting bad advice from chatbots….
TOKYO/DALIAN, China — Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming more enmeshed in everyday life in China, fueling the rise of ByteDance’s AI chatbot to the second-most widely used in the world. “I had a fight with my wife, how can we make up?” asks an 37-old office worker in the city of Dalian in northeastern China, who seeks assistance…
How are banks responding to an era of massive tech disruption and the prospects of lower interest rate margins as global interest rates fall? The banking industry used to be a highly profitable business because interest rate margins – the difference between the lending rate and deposit costs – were high. In the 1960s, when…
Privee AI is a premier AI Chatbot Character app designed to let people chat and roleplay with unique, customized AI characters, granting full privacy to their users. Privee AI positions itself as a user-centric platform, aiming to meet the real needs of its audience. October 13, 2024 10:33 PM EDT | Source: Plentisoft Wilmington,…