Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, others agree to AI safeguards
The White House said Friday that it has secured voluntary commitments from seven U.S. companies meant to ensure their AI products are safe before they release them.
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Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools
Though Apple has woven AI features into products for years, it’s now playing catch-up in the buzzy market for generative tools.
Facebook parent Meta makes public its ChatGPT rival Llama
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is partnering with Microsoft to introduce the next generation of its AI large language model and making the technology, known as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use.
Fast-growing tech firm Resultant undergoes leadership change
Mark Caswell, who led the Indianapolis-based technology consulting and analytics firm through four acquisitions in four years, has been replaced by a new chief executive.
Biden administration announces cybersecurity labeling program for smart devices
Officials likened the new U.S. Cyber Trust Mark initiative to the Energy Star program, which rates appliances’ energy efficiency.
Threads follows Twitter in limiting number of posts that users can see
In blaming spammers, Threads named the same reason that Twitter previously cited when it instituted limits.
AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation.
The wave of lawsuits, high-profile complaints and proposed regulation could pose the biggest barrier yet to the adoption of “generative” AI tools, which have gripped the tech world ever since OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public late last year.
How Indiana’s data chief helps tackle policy issues
Josh Martin has been leading the Indiana Management Performance Hub since it opened in 2014. Since then, demands on the agency have grown as the state has come to depend more on data to tackle huge problems such as the pandemic.
Indiana’s tech firms saw smaller investments, but more of them, in Q1
Indiana-based tech firms attracted more than $47 million from venture investors in 36 separate deals last quarter, according to a new report by Indianapolis-based TechPoint.
Judge declines to block Microsoft’s record $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard
Regulators have been seeking to ax the deal because they say it will hurt competition, but U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled the evidence pointed to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content.
Meta’s Threads tops 100 million users in just 5 days, Zuckerberg says
The app is now among the most used social media platforms in the United States, rivaling even TikTok.
Med tech startup getting boost from global accelerator
West Lafayette-based Neurava is one of 61 companies from around the world to showcase its medical technology as part of the 11th annual MedTech Innovator, billed as the largest accelerator of med tech companies.
Some employees want ChatGPT at work, but bosses worry they’ll spill secrets
The fast-moving AI landscape is creating a dynamic in which corporations are experiencing both “a fear of missing out and a fear of messing up.”
Gleaners looking to tech to help feed state’s needs
Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana’s core mission of providing food relief has become a lot more complicated over the past few years, thanks to the pandemic, and the organization is looking to technology to help it navigate its “new normal.”
ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution
Mobile and desktop traffic to ChatGPT’s website worldwide fell 9.7 percent in June from the previous month, according to internet data firm Similarweb.
Indianapolis startup Bereave aims to improve funeral planning
Bereave, which launched quietly in 2021, is developing an online platform where individuals can preplan the details of their funerals. The company is working to raise close to $1 million in “friends and family” funding
New Twitter rival app Threads gets tens of millions sign-ups on first day
Early adopters included celebrities like chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira and actor Jack Black as well as Airbnb, Guinness World Records, Netflix, Vogue magazine and other media outlets.
Ransomware criminals dumping students’ private files online after school hacks
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. Unlike for hospitals, no federal law exists to require notification from schools.
Meta looks to target Twitter with rival app called Threads
Threads could be the latest headache for Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion and has been making changes that have unnerved advertisers and turned off users.
Musk imposes daily limits on reading posts on Twitter
Twitter owner Elon Musk has limited the number of tweets that users can view each day—restrictions he described as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the social media platform.