When ChatGPT came out, even many people in tech were surprised at just how good it was. Bill Gates confessed to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that he was part of that group.
Driving the news: "I was privileged to see your work as it evolved, and I was very skeptical," Gates said in an interview with Altman that airs today as part of Gates' podcast "Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates."
Google announced layoffs overnight to its hardware and Google Assistant teams and the departure of the co-founders of Fitbit, which it acquired in January 2021.
Why it matters: The moves are the latest cuts at large tech companies, which eliminated tens of thousands of jobs last year.
Apple is telling its developers to refer to the new Vision Pro headset as a "spatial computing" device rather than a virtual reality or augmented reality product.
Why it matters: The company's marching orders to business partners, released Tuesday, mark Apple's latest effort to use its reality distortion field to change the world — at least the world of marketing terms.
"Holoportation," three-way romances involving robots, extending the natural lives of dogs — they're all on the latest prediction list from Faith Popcorn, the flamboyant futurist and trend-spotter who introduced the world to terms like "cocooning" and "cashing out."
Popcorn's firm, BrainReserve, counts a staggering number of Fortune 500 companies as clients, and her "TrendBank" of "global trends that reveal the future" has proved uncannily accurate.
A China-based company now has the ability to break the encryption surrounding Apple's AirDrop feature, according to a statement from China's Justice Bureau.
Why it matters: China-based law enforcement officials say they've already been able to identify a person who shared a video while on the Beijing subway "with inappropriate remarks" using the popular file transfer tool, per an English translation of the statement.
Following a delay, OpenAI said Wednesday that its GPT Store is now open and highlighted some of the most compelling of the custom chatbots that developers have created and shared.
Why it matters: Much as the iPhone's App Store allowed developers to create programs far beyond what Apple had envisioned on its own, OpenAI's store could allow a range of useful tools that likely would never have made it onto the ChatGPT creator's own roadmap.
Four out of five workers say their employers don't have guidelines for using AI — and barely half welcome the arrival of AI in their organization, according to a new international survey.
Why it matters: Many organizations lack a shared view on how to use AI — and that lack of consensus could hold them back from integrating AI into their operations.
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