Techstrong News Recap – July 18, 2023

Hi again, everyone. Here are the headlines for July 18th. First up, the US Federal Trade Commission has initiated an investigation into OpenAI over potential violations of consumer protection laws.

The agency sent a detailed letter to OpenAI requesting information about its AI technology, products, customers, privacy measures, and data security arrangements. The investigation aims to determine whether OpenAI engaged in unfair or deceptive practices related to privacy, data security, or consumer harm. OpenAI founder Sam Altman, expressed disappointment about the leak of the investigation, but stated that the company is committed to cooperating with the ftc.

Open Air has faced scrutiny in other countries as well, including temporary blocking of Chachi BT in Italy, and investigations by privacy watchdogs in France, Spain, Ireland, and Canada. The FTCs investigation represents a significant challenge for the growing AI industry as more countries try to regulate this new technology. Next, OpenAI and the Associated Press have reached an agreement for OpenAI to license APS archive of news stories.

The deal involves OpenAI accessing and licensing a portion of APS text archive, while AP will leverage open AI's technology and product expertise. This being said, the financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. OpenAI, along with other technology companies, relies on large text data sets, including news articles, books, and social media content to train its AI systems.

This licensing agreement allows OpenAI to access APS news stories dating back to 1985, providing valuable material for training purposes. The partnership also explores potential use cases for generative AI and news products and services. The deal between OpenAI and AP highlights the importance of fact-based nonpartisan news content in the evolving field of AI technology, as well as addressing concerns about intellectual property protection and fair compensation for content creators.

In other news, Google announced that the expansion of its AI powered chatbot across Europe and in Brazil, making it available to a larger user base of hundreds of millions of people. The move comes as Google aims to compete with Microsoft, which uses open AI's chatt pt, and its Bing search engine. Bard was initially launched back in February, but faced delays in its rollout overseas due to privacy compliance concerns from regulators.

Google worked with experts, policymakers, and privacy regulators to address these concerns and made necessary changes, including increased transparency and user user controls. Additionally, Bard can now be used in over 40 languages and offer new features such as customizable tone and style, voice responses, and image analysis capabilities. Next up, Tesla's announced that its first production cyber truck electric pickup has been completed at, at its giga Texas factory, nearly two years behind the original schedule.

The company made the announcement by sharing a photo on Twitter showing that workers surrounding the truck Tesla initially had plans to start production in late 2021, But later caution that it would begin slowly in smaller numbers compared to other vehicles. The cyber truck with its distinctive wedge shape and stainless steel body deviates from the traditional pickup truck design, and some analysts have raised doubts about its broad appeal, considering it an niche product. That being said, though, the EV market is on fire with an expected 35% year on year increase in 2023 in competitors such as Ford and Rivian, having also entered the market of electric trucks on digital C X O.

We've an article looking at how Capital One optimizes cloud data costs. Effectively. One of our writers sits down with Patrick Bar, senior director of product Management at Capital One software to explore Capital One's digital transformation.

com. com, we have an article looking at an API report highlighting productization and generative AI in postman's state of the API report. 59% of developers view API as a product now and 60% of API professionals said they use generative ai.

com. Finally, on cloud native, now we have an article looking at how IBM has extended its usage of Kubernetes based Red Hat OpenShift to make it easier to build and deploy cloud native applications in a hybrid cloud environment. IBM has stated that the goal of this update is to make it simpler to modernize applications by allowing IT teams to run code where the data resides.

com, and that's today's text. Strong news recap.