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Andrew Tarantola

Andrew Tarantola

Computing Writer

Andrew has spent more than a decade reporting on emerging technologies ranging from robotics and machine learning to space science, medicine, green energy and automated transportation. He has previous bylines at Engadget and Gizmodo, and will be covering all things AI at Digital Trends.

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Copilot Pro: how to use Microsoft’s advanced AI sidekick

Get ready to transform Copilot Pro from a helpful tool to a productivity powerhouse.
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We just learned something surprising about how Apple Intelligence was trained

This could signal the start of a wider industry revolt against the so-called "Nvidia tax."
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AI can now place a digital Coca-Cola next to any meal

The Coca-Cola Company announced Monday that it has partnered with WPP Open X in an effort to incorporate AI from Nvidia into its global ad campaigns. 
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This breakthrough memory technology could make AI 1,000 times more efficient

Engineering researchers have developed and demonstrated a new computer memory design that could drastically reduce the amount of energy AI systems consume.
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ChatGPT’s highly anticipated Advanced Voice could arrive ‘next week’

ChatGPT's Advanced Voice feature could arrive soon, but only a lucky few will be part of July's alpha test.
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Microsoft Copilot: how to use this powerful AI assistant

Dive in to unlock the full potential of Microsoft's Copilot and transform the way you work.
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This new AI video generator just completely outdid Sora

Kling can generate videos up to 2 minutes in length, though they start at just 5 seconds.
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Google strikes back with its own lightweight AI model

Google announced Thursday that it is releasing Gemini 1.5 Flash, it's snack-sized large language model, to all users, including the free tier.
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ChatGPT vs. Copilot: two sides of the same AI coin

ChatGPT and Copilot are two of the most popular platforms today. Both run on GPT-4, but which is best for you?
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Meta unveils Llama 3.1, its biggest and best open source model yet

The new LLM will be available in three sizes — 8B, 70B, and 405B parameters, with the latter being the largest open-source AI built to date
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Musk promises to deliver ‘the world’s most powerful AI’ by later this year

Musk has stated that Grok 3 will be a huge improvement and topple its competitors when it supposedly launches in late 2024.
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Musk doubles down on promises for Optimus humanoid robots

The company is promising "genuinely useful humanoid robots" if they ever do arrive.
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What is Gemini Advanced? Here’s how to use Google’s premium AI

Gemini Advanced suite brings AI features to the entire ecosystem of Google apps. Here's how to use it.
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The best free AI video generators you can try out today

These text-to-video and image-to-video AI generators are really fun to play with, and let you try them out for free.
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Apple denies reports that its AI was trained on YouTube videos

According to a new report from Proof News, Apple has been using a dataset containing the subtitles of 173,536 YouTube videos to train its AI.
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OpenAI just took the shackles off the free version of ChatGPT

GPT-4o mini is both less resource intensive and cheaper to operate than its the standard GPT-4 model.
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An ‘AI-native’ school is coming to revolutionize education

Mere months after departing OpenAI, AI researcher Andrej Karpathy announced the launch of his new AI+Education startup, dubbed Eureka Labs.
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Google responds to claims that Gemini is reading your files

Google's senior adviser on AI governance made a disturbing discovery: His Gemini AI was accessing and summarizing PDF files that it shouldn't be able to.
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Apple is tackling one of the most frustrating aspects with AI today

An Apple research team has developed a new method to ease users into the quirks of upgraded AI models.
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ChatGPT may have more paid subscribers than this popular streaming service

The company has also revealed a five-tier scale for measuring its AI system capabilities.
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The new AI tool that was deemed ‘too dangerous’ to release

Microsoft has announced that its new VALL-E 2 voice synthesizer AI is too capable to safely release to the public.
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Gemini AI is making robots in the office far more useful

Lost in an unfamiliar office building, big box store, or warehouse? Just ask the nearest robot for directions.
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Apple and Microsoft take a step back from OpenAI

Barely a week after news broke that Apple's Phil Schiller would join the OpenAI board in a non-voting observer role, the two companies are nixing that plan.
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OpenAI thinks a medical chatbot is the future of health care

OpenAI's Sam Altman and HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington announced they are teaming up to develop an “AI health coach” via Thrive AI Health.
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Stable Diffusion just got better and cheaper

Stability AI has improved the quality of its models, as well as updated the licensing agreement for an expanded free tier.
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Here’s how Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o stack up in a direct comparison

Both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o represent the best that AI assistants currently have to offer. We'll tell you which one is ultimately superior.
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OpenAI never disclosed that hackers cracked its internal messaging system

A hacker infiltrated OpenAI's internal messaging system last year and stole details about the company's AI designs.
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Steve Jobs predicted Apple Intelligence almost 40 years ago

The visionary tech leader that brought us the iPhone also had some strong opinions on AI.
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This AI app just brought Hollywood icons back from the dead to read you PDFs

The ElevenLabs Reader app now gives you access to the AI voices of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds, and Sir Lawrence Olivier to narrate PDFs.
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Meta’s new AI model can turn text into 3D images in under a minute

Meta's new "3D Gen" model is a "state-of-the-art, fast pipeline" for transforming input text into high-fidelity 3D images in under a minute.
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Anthropic aims to fix one of the biggest problems in AI right now

Anthropic announced Monday that it will launch a program funding development of third-party benchmark tests against which to evaluate its upcoming AI models.
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Apple Intelligence+ could be coming, and it won’t be free

Select premium Apple Intelligence features could eventually be paywalled, Bloomberg reports.
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How to opt out of ChatGPT using your chats to train models

Here's how to opt out of allowing ChatGPT to use your chat history to train OpenAI's models.
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AI is now being trained by AI to become a better AI

OpenAI has developed an AI assistant to help its crowd-sourced trainers further refine the GPT-4 model by spotting subtle coding errors that humans might miss.
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