Latest articles by Kevin Okemwa
Elon Musk's Grok AI spreads election misinformation despite claims of being "the world's most powerful AI" and secret access to X data for training
MISINFORMATION Five state secretaries urge billionaire Elon Musk to fix X's Grok after it was spotted spreading misinformation about the forthcoming elections.
Apple says 'there's no price Microsoft could pay' to make it ditch Google: "They offered to give us Bing for free"
PICK ME! While Google has been deemed a monopolist, Apple will retain its exclusive deal with the company citing Bing's search quality issues.
Microsoft wants you to get better at AI detection with its new quiz game: "The growing quality in AI images makes them harder to spot"
real or not Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith has shared a new website to help users sharpen and enhance their AI-detection skills.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says "Security is our No. 1 priority" but will need teamwork to make the dream work
BEEFED UP Microsoft is doubling down on its cybersecurity efforts. As highlighted In an internal memo, "Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority."
Sam Altman might be one of the last original founders remaining at OpenAI as another departs to focus on AI alignment at a rival firm
MASS EXIT OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is going on sabbatical leave through the end of the year, while researcher John Schulman is leaving to join OpenAI competitor, Anthropic.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman again, citing involvement in racketeering activities: "The previous suit lacked teeth"
FAKE HUMANITARIAN MISSION Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit in federal court in Northern California against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and co-founder Gregory Brockman. Here's what it claims and why it matters.
CrowdStrike lashes out at Delta and calls its lawsuit 'meritless' after it reportedly rejected 'free onsite help' leading to half a billion flight disruption losses
WHO'S TO BLAME? CrowdStrike says it is "highly disappointed by Delta's suggestion that CrowdStrike acted inappropriately and strongly rejects any allegation that it was grossly negligent or committed misconduct."
OpenAI will use tamper-resistant watermarking to help users identify deepfakes and AI-generated content
NO DEEPFAKES OpenAI highlights two ways it's trying to address the emerging challenges as generative AI becomes broadly available, including developing new tools to help users identify AI-generated content.
Microsoft's aggressive ad strategy, Windows 10's death, and Copilot+ PCs have FINALLY pushed Windows 11's market share to an all-time high since launch
FINALLY According to Statcounter, Windows 11 now holds 30.83% of the market share — the highest bar none since its launch.
Microsoft dev says Steve Ballmer didn't write the text for the Blue Screen of Death: "There are three different blue-colored screens, and each has a different author"
BSOD? Microsoft Developer Raymond Chen explains how the Blue Screen of Death error came to be by highlighting the three types written by different authors.
Delta CEO says Microsoft is "probably the most fragile platform" after it lost "half a billion dollars in five days" during the CrowdStrike outage
FORTIFY? Ed Bastian has "tremendous respect for Microsoft and (CEO) Satya," but the lack of fortification might force Delta Air Lines to look elsewhere.
Sam Altman re-prioritizes safety processes at OpenAI after it seemingly took a backseat for 'shiny products'
SAFER? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlighted new updates regarding the company's safety policies, including allocating 20% of its computing resources to safety processes across its tech stack.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's digital AI assistants prediction might have just manifested through ChatGPT's new Advanced Voice Mode feature
JUST THE BEGINNING OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode feature is finally available to select ChatGPT Plus users for now.
NVIDIA CEO and Mark Zuckerberg exchange jackets and visions of a future where every business has an AI assistant
AI ASSISTANTS NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg touched base at SIGGRAPH 2024 to discuss a future featuring AI assistance and open-source models.
Delta's new attorney seeks over $350 million from Microsoft and CrowdStrike after the global outage — a $10 gift card won't cut it
PAY UP! Delta Air Lines has hired prominent attorney David Boies to seek damages from Microsoft and CrowdStrike.
Microsoft removes ads from Skype but leaves them in Windows 11's Start menu
Ad-free Windows?🫠 The new update also brings OneAuth integration to Skype for iOS and revamps the AI image creator experience on Skype Desktop.
Microsoft wants Congress to pass "a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute" to prevent AI-generated scams and abuse
DEEPFAKE FRAUD STATUTE Microsoft calls on the US Congress to pass a comprehensive deepfake fraud statute to prevent cybercriminals from leveraging AI capabilities to cause harm.
Google CEO says the “risk of under-investing in AI is dramatically greater than the risk of over-investing,” as investors mount pressure on Microsoft for its extravagant spending on AI projects
HIGH RISK, HIGH REWARD Investors question Microsoft's heavy investment in AI projects, primarily due to the slow payoff.
Is GenAI a dying fad? A new study predicts 30% of investors will jump ship by 2025 after proof of concept
what next? A new Gartner report suggests that "at least 30% of generative AI (GenAI) projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025."
This breakthrough tech could solve Microsoft's AI power consumption woes and is 1,000x more energy-efficient
energy efficient A new prototype chip could help address the rising concern over AI's excessive power consumption.
ChatGPT gets a voice, but only a 'small group of users' will get to hear it at launch for a $20 monthly subscription
VOICE MODE OpenAI will ship Voice Mode to ChatGPT later this week to ChatGPT Plus users, meaning you'll need to pay a $20 monthly subscription for access.
Despite bankruptcy scares, OpenAI enters the search engine fold to rival Google and Microsoft with Sam Altman indicating that "there is room to make search much better than it is today."
SEARCHGPT OpenAI debuts SearchGPT to take on Google with "fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources."
Elon Musk calls Grok 'the most powerful AI by every metric' but 'secretly' trains the new model with your X data by default
DO BETTER X (formerly Twitter) quietly rolled out a new data-sharing experience that is enabled by default and uses your data to train Grok.
Microsoft's 'strategic mistake' killed the Windows 11 mobile dream, but a daring developer is running it on an iPhone 15 Pro
W11 IPHONE A developer recently experimented with running Windows 11 on the iPhone 15 Pro using Tiny11 Core and a PC emulator but reported lengthy boot time, degraded user experience, and bad resolution.
