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While the internet has understandably been distracted by a host of exciting announcements in recent months, from the reveal of Apple’s Vision Pro headset to the debut of Instagram’s Twitter rival Threads, generative AI is still making waves. On Tuesday, AI safety and research company Anthropic launched its upgraded large language model, Claude 2. If you want to try Claude 2, head to Claude.ai/login and enter your email address. Input the code that you receive and then follow the instructions to create an…

ChatGPT established a previously unseen rate of growth at the beginning of 2023, hitting a 100 million user base in just two months. But tech moves fast, and with that user base finally starting to dip, a new viral app has broken its record. And yes, we’re talking about Threads, the new Twitter competitor from Meta. The new social media app has amassed a whopping 100 million users in just five days since its July 6 inception, according to the data tracking platform Quiver Quantitative. Threads/Meta The platform saw…

Photo: Win McNamee (Getty Images)Ever since it debuted last year, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been the hottest product in tech. It kicked off the so-called “AI revolution,” launched droves of new businesses, and has experienced explosive growth on a global scale. However, it appears that the honeymoon phase may finally be over. Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksThe Washington Post has reported that the app saw its first ever dip in user numbers last month. In fact, mobile and desktop…

Image: Koshiro K (Shutterstock)ChatGPT can be used for a wonderfully broad variety of applications—with mixed results, of course. Less than a week after introducing its integration with Bing, ChatGPT pulled the plug on the collaboration as users discovered they could use it to bypass paywalled websites.Generating Video Via Text? | Future TechLast week, OpenAI officially unveiled Browse with Bing for ChatGPT Plus, which would allow users to more effectively get answers to their questions via the search engine on the…

Image: Tada Images (Shutterstock)It appears that the artificial intelligence fatigue is upon us: OpenAI’s website traffic has fallen for the first time since the company launched the viral chatbot ChatGPT in November.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksWeb analytics firm SimilarWeb reported this week that worldwide traffic to OpenAI’s ChatGPT webpage, including both desktop and mobile traffic, dipped 9.7 percent in June. In the U.S. alone, the traffic drop is estimated to be 10.3…

OpenAI has disabled ChatGPT’s Browse with Bing feature after some users discovered that it can be used to bypass paywalls, which are often used by news publications to encourage readers to sign up for a paid subscription. Browse with Bing was available only to subscribers of ChatGPT Plus, the premium tier of OpenAI’s popular chatbot. “We’ve learned that ChatGPT’s ‘Browse’ beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t want, e.g. if a user specifically asks for a URL’s full text, it may inadvertently fulfill…

ChatGPT for iOS now offers a connection to Bing for a user experience that incorporates more up-to-date information. There is a caveat, however, as only paid subscribers to the app’s premium Plus tier are able to take advantage of the new feature. It means that the AI-powered ChatGPT app will now be able to pull up more recent information instead of only using older web-based data that it’s been trained on, which reaches as far as 2021. “Plus users can now use ‘Browsing’ to get comprehensive answers and current…

Attorney Richard Santalesa, a founding member of the SmartEdgeLaw Group based in Westport, Conn., focuses on technology transactions, data security, and intellectual property matters. He points out that there are issues of contract law as well as copyright law -- and they're treated differently. From a contractual point of view, Santalesa contends that most companies producing AI-generated code will, "as with all of their other IP, deem their provided materials -- including AI-generated code -- as their property."…

OpenAI faces its first defamation lawsuit over false information generated by ChatGPT Good morning tech fam, here are some quick tech updates for you to catch on to! What’s New Today: More layoffs at Better.com months after Zoom call mass firing.   Fast-Track Insights: Crypto regulations in the works by Senator Lummis despite SEC lawsuits.   Radio personality Mark Walters has issued a defamation case against OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed company that created ChatGPT, alleging slander. According to Walters, ChatGPT created…

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is wrapping up a jet-setting tour of meetings with world leaders in an effort to steer global AI regulation. Altman and his company want lawmakers thinking more about a potential future where AI destroys society, and less about not the problems AI will wreak in the short term. At a talk with students in Tokyo Monday, Altman said he thinks the strategy is working.ChatGPT’s Creator Buddies Up to Congress | Future Tech“One of the reasons for this trip was to get to talk to leaders…