- ChatGPT got a new default search engine. No, it’s not Google. Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, will be connected first to users of the paid version of the chatbot, and then to all others.
- Google will use AI to match search ads to your queries.
- TikTok does not want to put up with the Montana ban. State Governor Greg Gianforte has banned TikTok statewide. The ban should come into force on June 1, but the service intends to challenge this decision in court.
- Elon Musk announced the ability to upload two-hour videos on Twitter.
- OpenAI presents the official ChatGPT app for Apple iPhone.
- An ex-employee of Apple stole the source code of the company’s autopilot — and it is already outdated. The company’s software engineer Weibao Wang gained access to the company’s trade secrets, hacked data on the autopilot being developed, and passed it on to China. But, as it turned out, no one needs this information anymore.
- Batteries for electric cars in Europe will be recycled.
- Scientists have taught artificial intelligence to create videos directly from people’s brains. Researchers Jiaxing Qing, Jiao Chen, and Huang Helen Zhou from the National University of Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used fMRI data and the Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence model to create a model called MinD-Video, which generates videos from brain readings.
- AI startup Anthropic has attracted $450 million from Google and other investors. The funds will be used to create “useful, harmless, and honest artificial intelligence systems.” Among them is the Claude chatbot, which performs a wide range of text-processing tasks.
- The new technology of solar panels makes it possible to obtain drinking water from the air.
That’s this week in tech!
