Daily News update on – Technology

The New York Times

Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organizations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp, according to three …

Forbes

Leading U.S. tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft have agreed to a set of voluntary safeguards to mitigate the risks of artificial intelligence, the White House announced on Friday, an early step ahead of more formal regulations as …

NPR

Meta, the company behind Facebook, has made the latest entry in the competition among tech giants to dominate artificial intelligence. The company is allowing other firms to freely use the latest iteration of its large language model, known as Llama 2, …

Forbes

The Federal Trade Commission will likely pause an internal trial opposing Microsoft’s $69 billion bid to purchase video game giant Activision Blizzard, just days after the FTC failed to stop the mega-merger in federal court, Bloomberg reported, …

The New York Times

Anyone seduced by A.I.-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard — wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually runs into what are known as hallucinations, the tendency for artificial intelligence to fabricate information.

U.S. News & World Report

A highly technical process is underway in Los Angeles to put NASA’s retired Space Shuttle Endeavour on display in the vertical launch position complete with external tank and two solid rocket boosters. By Associated Press.

CNN

Google is developing an artificial intelligence tool for news publishers that can generate article text and headlines, the company said, highlighting how the technology may soon transform the journalism industry. The tech giant said in a statement that …

Vanity Fair

That’s how, according to the New York Times, leaders at the Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal reacted to a new tool that Google is testing, known internally as Genesis, that uses artificial intelligence to write news articles.

Reuters

July 19 (Reuters) – Google is exploring using artificial intelligence tools to write news articles and is in talks with news organizations to use the tools to assist journalists, a company spokesperson said late on Wednesday.

KAMR – MyHighPlains.com

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – When locals around Amarillo and the High Plains region look up past the broad horizons at night, they usually expect to see the vast arrays of stars that have inspired and guided humans since they first glanced skyward.