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A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Tesla's Model X development and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public (Ainsley Harris / Fast Company).

A look at TikTok's viral Bold Glamour filter, which an expert says likely uses generative adversarial networks, amid fears the tool may hurt users' self-esteem (The Verge).

Microsoft unveils Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM the company claims can analyze images for content, perform visual text recognition, pass visual IQ tests, and more (Benj Edwards / Ars Technica).

Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET's use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large (Mia Sato / The Verge).

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Ford launches Latitude AI, a subsidiary run by former Argo AI employees, to focus initially on commercializing a hands-free, eyes-off driver assistance system (Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch).

Sources: Tencent established a team to work on “HunyuanAide”, a ChatGPT-like chatbot using Tencent's Hunyuan AI training model, following Alibaba and Baidu (Josh Ye / Reuters).

Meta is forming a team to get generative AI into its products, led by Ahmad Al-Dahle, who joined Meta in 2020 after 16 years at Apple and reports to Chris Cox (Ina Fried / Axios).

Sources: Elon Musk has approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT (Jon Victor / The Information).

A look at the Nvidia A100, a ~$10K GPU that has become a critical tool for generative AI Nvidia has an estimated 95% market share of machine learning GPUs ( Kif Leswing / CNBC).

Midjourney temporarily bans some words about the human reproductive system to prevent generating shocking or gory images, while the company “improves things” ( Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review).

As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators online are sometimes being asked to prove that they're human ( Kate Lindsay / The Verge).

The skirmishes over generative AI show how tech companies have become political lightning rods, as even efforts to steer AI away from politics can appear biased ( Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post).

Some experts, particularly those advocating for “ethical AI” or “responsible AI”, say Microsoft and OpenAI's new Bing experiment is dangerous to the public ( Wall Street Journal).

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How startup revenue growth is slowing across 4 sectors: fintech, ecommerce, software and healthcare sectors.

Biotech, AI & ML lead the emerging tech pack.

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Nature has a comprehensive study of the G oogle and Apple Bluetooth proximity COVID exposure tracking system: it appears to have saved about 10,000 lives in the UK alone.

China now has 60% share of EV batteries. Remember when Tesla bulls claimed it would dominate battery production? LINK.

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Free ad-supported streaming (‘FAST’) is pretty big now - Fox’s Tubi has 64m MAUs.

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Update on the US TV industry’s attempts to put together better metrics than Nielsen for streaming.

AI fails to generate consumer enthusiasm across media But for marketing websites and movies, US adults are slightly more open to AI-generated content.

More than half of US adults prefer human-generated content across a broad range of media, according to an Ipsos survey.

In 2023, total retail sales growth worldwide will muddle through at just under 4%

Inflation and a lackluster economy-especially in China, where massive growth is slowing-play into the slowdown of global retail sales this year.

Display advertising in 5 charts: From programmatic to retail media Here are five charts that offer a closer look at what display ad spending looks like in 2023.

US display ad spend will grow by 15.7% this year, reaching a total of $163.29 billion.

We take a look at some of Gen Z’s shopping habits and what they mean for retailers.

As Gen Zs’ buying power grows, retailers need to understand the best ways to connect and engage with them, whether that’s through leaning into product discovery or creating a more seamless payment process.

Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26% (Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware).

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