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A congressional committee made the demand of the Commerce Department after the New York Times reported on concerns among U.S. intelligence officials over the Emirati company, G42.

OpenAI is firing back at The New York Times after the company was sued for copyright infringement over the use of the publisher’s articles to train its artificial intelligence chatbot. In a blog post, the Sam Altman-led firm said that the Times is “not telling the full story” and claimed it “intentionally manipulated” prompts to make it appears as if ChatGPT generates near word-for-word excerpts of articles.

The AI-driven planning and activation technology will leverage new investments in automation and data to provide advertisers “effective and unduplicated reach across screens.”

In the hands of anonymous internet users, AI tools can create waves of harassing and racist material. It’s already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan.

OpenAI plans to launch its GPT app store the week of CES 2024. The company announced the app store during its first annual developer conference in November when it said it would open in late November. But the plans changed, likely due to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s abrupt departure and return at the start of the holidays. The app store will give users the ability to find GPTs from “verified builders” through a searchable interface.

The AFL-CIO is pushing for Disney and Apple to explain how they use artificial intelligence.

OpenAI has offered some media firms as little as between $1 million and $5 million annually to license their news articles for use in training its large language models, according to two executives who have recently negotiated with the tech company. That’s a tiny amount even for small publishers, which could make it difficult for OpenAI to strike deals.

Microsoft is so confident AI is the future of computing that it’s adding a new button to the keyboards of Windows PCs dedicated to its Copilot AI assistant, starting with new machines to be announced at CES next week. It’s the first change to the Windows keyboard in 30 years, and the latest example of hardware makers betting on AI to both create new product categories and breathe life into older ones.

Perplexity, a startup going after Google’s dominant position in web search, has won backing from Jeff Bezos and venture capitalists betting that artificial intelligence will upend the way people find information online. Started less than two years ago, Perplexity has fewer than 40 employees and is based out of a San Francisco co-working space. The company’s product, which it calls an answer engine, is used by about 10 million people monthly. Pictured: CEO Aravind Srinivas.

Organizers expect a larger turnout of attendees and exhibitors to CES in Las Vegas next week, where generative AI, IP delivery and new developments in NextGen TV are likely to draw broadcasters’ focus.

The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines.

Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.

Here’s a look back at some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year. Pictured: Characters removed from a sign on the Twitter headquarters building are piled on a street in San Francisco on July 24, 2023. (Godofredo A. Vásque/AP)

In what will be a closely watched legal salvo, the publisher claims the generative artificial intelligence giant was using its writing “without permission to develop their models and tools.”

2024 will be the year the AI industry gets serious about trying to deliver results across a wide slice of business and life, moving beyond the hype surrounding the successes of ChatGPT and chipmaker Nvidia. Everyone using AI will be looking for proof that it’s making their life or work better following 2023’s surges of enthusiasm and fear. AI providers are hunting for profitable business models that can support expensive-to-run generative AI systems. Business leaders want to move beyond AI brainstorming and pilot phases and begin offering leaps in efficiency, productivity and creativity.

Experts are warning that the spread of misinformation could get worse in the coming presidential election contest. The safeguards that attempted to counter the bogus claims the last time are eroding, while the tools and systems that create and spread them are only getting stronger.

The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative AI systems on publishers’ news articles.

TVNewsCheck’s annual conference in New York last week charted the forward trajectory of news technology and storytelling. See all the videos of the sessions here.

The ChatGPT maker is charging ahead on selling AI. It’s also researching potential harms like helping people make bioweapons.

AI is making it easy for anyone to create propaganda outlets, producing content that can be hard to differentiate from real news.