Virtual workers 

Software King of the World, Microsoft is going to allow its punters to build autonomous AI agents and create virtual workers.

iPhone loses its shine

After years of talking up Apple’s iPhone, the Tame Apple Press is having to admit that the iPhone 16 is a dull product which needed to be a lot better.

Still the leader for now

OpenAI's lead over other AI labs has largely eroded as Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5, X's Grok 2, and even Meta's open-source Llama 3.1 405 B model have equalled, or narrowly surpassed on some benchmarks,

Aimed at AI data centres

MSI has lifted the kimono on its Nvidia MGX-based AI servers which are being pitched to handle scalable, energy-efficient AI workloads in modern data centres.

As if reality was not fake enough 

The US Department of Defense wants technology to fabricate online personas indistinguishable from real people.

Positions involve spotting deep fakes created by AI

It appears that AI is starting to create work after all – working out how to spot AI deep fakes.

Still think Copilot helps them

Code developers using Copilot work longer hours and produce less quality code despite thinking that AI helps.

100 million AI Assistants

The leather-coated balloon waiting to burst, Nvidia's Jensen Huang wants his company to have 50,000 employees with 100 million, AI assistants.

Cat says Meta Man is dumber than AI

Meta senior researcher Yann LeCun told the Wall Street Journal that humanity has nothing to fear from A.I. and that it is “dumber than a cat.”

Firefly builds video content from text prompts

Adobe has started publicly distributing an AI model to generate video from text prompts.