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Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence.
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What happened with AI this week? Well, the passage of the European Union’s AI Act—a landmark piece of regulation that seeks tackle the potential harms of the AI industry—is a pretty big deal. It could totally reshape how European nations’ relationship to the technology. But a lot of less consequential if no less weird…
Grimes, the futuristic pop singer and mother of Elon Musk’s children, is working on a plush AI toy named “Grok” with the Silicon Valley startup Curio.
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There were a few AI product launches this week. Google released Gemini, it’s newest AI platform, while Grok, Elon Musk’s annoying chatbot, rolled out to X Premium users. Apple, meanwhile, tried to keep up by releasing...an open-source machine learning framework. Not quite as exciting. That said, the AI industry…
Elon Musk’s snarky, anti-woke chatbot, Grok, started rolling out to X Premium Plus users on Thursday. X users who paid $16 a month, or $22 via the app, for a blue checkmark started receiving the added feature of getting roasted by xAI’s premiere generative AI chatbot.
Google launched Gemini, its new supercharge AI model, on Wednesday, a technology that will touch on nearly every part of the search giant’s business. The company has spent the last year lagging behind OpenAI, its chief artificial intelligence rival. But Gemini is Google’s long-anticipated attempt to prove its AI is…