Many generative AI services let users chat with famous figures, real or fictional, from Jane Austen to Foucault or de Gaulle. Le Monde notes that a growing number of users are getting drawn into these conversations, with varying degrees of credulity.
Legal experts say Meta business account holders are now consenting to having their data scraped for AI. There is no way to opt out.
Brazilian bank Itaú is rolling out its AI First strategy to customers and staff through ia.i, a conversational interface, and IARA, a governance platform. The bank operates in one of Brazil's most heavily regulated sectors.
Two projects in Mexico are using AI to help relatives of the country's many missing people, one by ageing composite portraits to a person's current age and another by mapping and cross-referencing data.
The most prolific publisher of AI-generated news sites, blacklisted last year for flooding Google Discover with articles and fake news, is back. Three of his sites captured up to 4 percent of Discover traffic in early October after publishing 26,000 articles.
The Verge has spent a week testing laptops built on Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X, an Arm-based system-on-chip for laptops and small desktops. Nvidia is positioning it against the best chips from Apple, Intel, AMD and Qualcomm.