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• We're 'at least a decade away' from solving AI, says NYU Professor Gary Marcus — Gary Marcus, New York University professor emeritus, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss artificial intelligence implications, the future of generative AI, investor decisions, and more.
• Microsoft is bringing ‘Windows Volumetric Apps’ to Meta Quest headsets — Details are slim, but an API is nigh.
• An Xbox VR headset is on the way, but it’s a ‘limited edition’ Meta Quest — Microsoft and Meta’s VR partnership expands to Xbox-branded headsets.
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• New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC — Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
• Sam Altman on X — Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways.
• OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk, but the new ChatGPT release can? — If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars. One former employee, Daniel Kokotajlo, who posted that he quit OpenAI “due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI,” has confirmed publicly that he had to surrender what would have likely turned out to be a huge sum of money in order to quit without signing the document.
• Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her — The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT.
• Hayden Field on X — Just received this statement from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the Scarlett Johansson voice controversy.
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• Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models | TechCrunch — OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks.
• ArDev on X — Altman emphasizes that OpenAI is focused on quality and impact rather than deadlines. They are taking their time with releasing major updates and may even opt for a different naming convention.
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• iOS 18: Apple finalizing deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone — While Apple is also still in talks with Google about an AI partnership, tonight’s report says Apple has “closed in on an agreement with OpenAI.”
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• garry on X — Google's Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in c# because it's unethical.
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