OpenAI announced a new AI-powered search engine prototype called SearchGPT. It\u2019s described SearchGPT<\/a> as \u201ca temporary prototype of new AI search features that give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources.\u201d The company plans to test out the product with 10,000 initial users, then roll it into ChatGPT after gathering feedback.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a spicy time to launch AI-powered search engines. Last month, Perplexity faced criticism for summarizing stories from Forbes <\/em>and Wired<\/em> without adequate attribution or backlinks to the publications. It also ignored robots.txt, a way for websites to tell crawlers that scrape data to back off. Earlier this week, Wired<\/em> publisher Cond\u00e9 Nast reportedly sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity and accused it of plagiarism. Also: see the <\/a> earlier this week.<\/p>\n SearchGPT categorizes its results with short descriptions and visuals, but according to some early users, just like its chatbot forebears, accuracy is\u2026 lacking.<\/p>\n \u2014 Mat Smith<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u200b\u200bYou can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. <\/em>Subscribe right here!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Google is making its Gemini AI faster and more efficient across the board. You now have access to 1.5 Flash, its generative AI model designed to generate responses more quickly and efficiently, even if you\u2019re not paying for access to Google\u2019s AI. The company says you\u2019ll notice improvements in latency and in the tool\u2019s reasoning and image understanding.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Sure, Samsung copied Apple in multiple ways on its Galaxy Buds 3 ($180) and Galaxy Buds 3 Pro ($250). Not only in physical design (remember when Samsung ribbed Apple for the AirPods\u2019 stems?), but the third-gen Buds mirror a few features from AirPods too. That includes Adaptive Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), Adaptive EQ and Voice Detect. However, the best features require a recent Samsung device, while ANC, on an open-type earbud, is basically useless.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n AI company Runway reportedly scraped \u201cthousands\u201d of YouTube videos and pirated versions of copyrighted movies without permission. 404 Media<\/em> obtained alleged internal spreadsheets suggesting the AI video-generating startup trained its Gen-3 model using YouTube content from channels like Disney, Netflix, Pixar and popular media outlets. 404 Media <\/em>found that prompting the video generator with the names of popular YouTubers listed in the spreadsheet spat out results bearing an uncanny resemblance. Entering the same names in Runway\u2019s older Gen-2 model \u2014 trained before the alleged data in the spreadsheets \u2014 generated \u201cunrelated\u201d results.<\/p>\n Continue reading.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Overwatch 2 <\/em>developers plan to experiment with a range of team compositions beyond the role-locked 5v5 format of the current game. That includes a potential revival of six-player teams from the original Overwatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n Game director Aaron Keller wrote the team was \u201cexploring how we can test different forms of 6v6 in the game to gauge the results.\u201d Faced with <\/a>, it could be a move to keep its most loyal fans.<\/p>\nThe biggest stories you might have missed<\/h3>\n
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