"Active Listening" is both a clever and creepy name for this…
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AI Toy Pricing and Child Safety Concerns Emerge
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Yeah, $99 seems like a fairly reasonable price for something like this. It also has me thinking of Aibo from CES 2018 that was a whopping $2,899! I'll be very curious to hear what privacy and child safety advocates think about these AI toys when they're available for testing…
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Grok AI Tool Name Origin Story and Development
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Great @washingtonpost story about this yesterday by @TaylorLorenz
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washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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OpenAI-Powered Grok Plush Toy Launches at $99 Price Point
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Just in time for the holidays, @CurioBeta has a new plush toy for kids called Grok — featuring the voice of @Grimezsz and AI from @OpenAI
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NOYB Files GDPR Complaint Against Criteo: €40M Fine
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NOYB — which stands for “None Of Your Business” — was also involved with a GDPR complaint filed against the Parisian ad-tech firm Criteo, which resulted in French regulators issuing a €40 million fine this summer.
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X faces GDPR complaint over illegal political ad targeting
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Privacy rights org @NOYBeu filed a new EU complaint claiming X (Twitter) broke GDPR & DSA laws by targeting ads based on users' political & religious beliefs. Here's the irony: NOYB says ads using "sensitive data" were part of a campaign by @EU_Commission
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Google Cloud Presents AI Solutions at Applied Summit
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Today is Google Cloud's Applied AI Summit, where execs are talking about ways to use Google's AI capabilities via Gemini, Vertex AI, Duet AI, etc. https://
cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/summit-
applied-ml-summit-23/watch?talk=kn_generativeai
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AI Naming Trends: How Chatbots and LLMs Shape Vernacular
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Chatbots, LLMs, AI startups & AI products have introduced a wave of AI names to the world's vernacular. To talk about AI name trends, I spoke with David Placek, whose agency has come up with iconic names like Blackberry, Azure, Sonos, Pentium & Powerbook.
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Training Data Ethics: Copyright and LLM Model Development Concerns
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This is a great point beyond the direct news implications…What does this deal mean for how quotes and other info in various stories are used to train OpenAI's models? Will people be worried their words and ideas might be misused by LLMs?
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Runway and Getty Images Partner on Enterprise AI Model
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For Monday's @Digiday AI Briefing, I wrote about a new baseline AI model from @runwayml & @GettyImages
. Last week, I spoke w/ Runway's @c_valenzuelab & Getty's CPO about the partnership & how enterprise clients will fine-tune the model w/ their own data. https://
digiday.com/media-buying/a
i-briefing-as-tech-giants-add-more-ai-tools-runway-and-getty-images-team-up/
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