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Artificial Intelligence is present in everyday life – from “googling” to facial recognition to vacuum cleaner robots. AI tools are becoming more and more elaborate and support people and companies more effectively in their tasks, such as generating graphics, texting or coding, or interpreting large amounts of data.

What AI tools are there, how do they work, how do they help in our everyday world – and how do they change our lives? These are the questions we address in our Content Hub Artificial Intelligence in Practice.

AI in practice

OpenAI launches GPT-5 as a unified system with adaptive reasoning for complex tasks

AI in practice

OpenAI releases its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 with GPT-oss

AI in practice

Google upgrades Gemini with Deep Think and flags early warning risks

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Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in AI chatbot startup Character.AI, according to Reuters sources. The investment could be structured as convertible notes and would deepen the existing partnership between the two companies, as Character.AI uses Google's cloud services and tensor processing units to train models. Discussions with Google are ongoing. Founded by former Google employees, Character.AI allows users to chat with virtual versions of celebrities or create their own chatbots and AI assistants. The startup is also in talks to raise equity funding from venture capital investors, potentially valuing the company at more than $5 billion.

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Mozilla has launched Fakespot Chat, its first large language model (LLM) AI chatbot, to help users identify fake and misleading product reviews while shopping online. Fakespot, which Mozilla acquired earlier this year, uses AI and machine learning to sort through product reviews and provide users with trustworthy information. The chatbot is available through Fakespot Analyzer or as a browser extension on Amazon.com. Keep in mind that the chatbot can be wrong, so if something seems fishy, you might want to double-check. Interestingly, Amazon itself is doing something similar in that it uses AI to take the gist of all the summaries for a master summary.

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Text-to-video startup RunwayML has just announced "Motion Brush," which lets you select specific areas of an image and set them in motion. The feature is coming soon to Runway's Gen-2 model, which just received a significant upgrade in fidelity and consistency. The update also allows the Gen-2 to handle a higher resolution of 2,816 x 1,536 pixels when creating video from an existing image, exceeding today's widespread Full-HD resolution.

Video: RunwayML

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OpenAI is experiencing "abnormal traffic" that suggests hackers are trying to overwhelm its services, potentially causing outages like the one that hit ChatGPT this week. The startup has detected signs of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and is working to mitigate the problem, it writes on its status page.

Update - We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are continuing work to mitigate this.
Nov 08, 2023 - 19:49 PST

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also said that the use of the new features introduced during the Dev Days is "far exceeding" OpenAI's expectations, so the company is staggering the rollout and anticipating more instability in the short term.

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