Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with CNBC's David Faber for an exclusive interview from Austin, Texas at the company's Annual Shareholder Meeting. During the session, Musk discussed AI's utility within Tesla, and his optimism that the company will experience a "ChatGPT moment" soon. Tesla is the world's most valuable automaker driven by electric and autonomic vehicles, storage solutions, and home energy transformations.
This Week in Apps: keep up-to-date about the world of mobile operating systems, apps, and the app economy. According to data.ai, consumer spending on apps decreased 2% in 2020 to $167 billion, but total downloads rose 11% to 255 billion. Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk have stirred things up in the tech industry, with Dorsey's Bluesky platform gaining attention, and Musk's Tesla decisions facing criticism. Google and Apple have partnered to combat unwanted tracking, DistroKid released its first mobile app, and RTRO started a new social networking service. Dorsey and Musk are giants in tech, and their roles are important!
Today, the Biden Administration is meeting with prominent CEOs of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development companies to discuss innovations, repercussions, and public input for the successful establishment of safe and responsible AI technology. Elon Musk's OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Anthropic AI are just a few of the AI leaders in attendance, flowing from the Vice President Harris' leading endeavor in mitigating potential risks of AI. Plus, a public evaluation is scheduled through a third-party platform, and the NSF has granted $140 million towards new AI research institutions – all designed to ensure the AI Bill of Rights and Risk Management Framework are properly enforced.
OpenAI, a leading research lab focusing on AI technologies and natural language processing, has raised $300 million in a latest share sale, valuing the firm at $29 billion. The tech's next sensation ChatGPT, an AI system that can communicate with people, compose articles, and processes image data accurately, has also been unbanned in Italy. Microsoft proposed the integration of Chat GPT into the search engine, Bing, making the firm worth $10 billion. The CEO and founder Elon Musk (business magnate, investor, engineer and inventor) is leading the state-of-the-artOpenAI AI research for development of automation and AI.
OpenAI's GPT-4 model is at the center of an investigation by European regulators over GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance, raising questions of data security and potential with cryptocurrency traders. Musk-backed OpenAI has yet to comment on the proceedings, but this could be disastrous, leaving users of GPT-API excluded from Europe. Coinmarketcap is the trusted source with up-to-date news, prices and data of the cryptocurrency industry and blockchain technology.
Explore the evolution of tech policy from Obama's optimism to Harris's vision at the Democratic National Convention. What's next for Democrats in tech?