๐ GPT-4 Turbo Elevates Free Copilot, TikTok Unchanged After US Vote, Amazon AI Crafts Pages from Links
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Copilot gets free GPT-4 Turbo upgrade: 3 new features coming to the AI assistant. GPT-4 Turbo now underpins ChatGPT rival Copilot, upgrading the Microsoft AI assistant from the less-developed GPT-4 model, according to Microsoft's CEO of Advertising and Web Services, Mikhail Parakhin. The best part is that this upgrade is affecting the free tier, which means you needn't pay a penny to access the expanded capabilities. By Kimberly Gedeon via Mashable
๐: After quite some work, GPT4-Turbo replaced GPT-4 in the Copilot free tier. Pro users can still choose the older model, if prefer (there is a toggle). - Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin)
TikTok Tells Staff That Strategy Stays the Same After House Vote. TikTok told employees the company isnโt planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed a bill to ban the app in the country unless its Chinese owner sells it. โOur strategy remains the same โ we continue to believe that the best way to address concerns about national security is with transparent, US-based protection of US user data and systems with robust third-party monitoring, vetting and verification.โ By Edward Ludlow via Bloomberg
๐: It only leads to a ban if they refuse to divest, so if theyโre calling it a ban, it makes you wonder why they refuse to divest. - Conor Sen (@conorsen)
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Amazon will let sellers paste a link so AI can make a product page. Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link. Amazon is releasing a new generative AI feature that takes information from a seller's external website and then generates an Amazon product page forย for the item, complete with a written description and images. By Emilia David via The Verge
๐: Already, more than 100,000 Amazon selling partners have used our GenAI listing tools to quickly and easily create high-quality product pages on http://Amazon.com. Now, weโre making it even easier with a new GenAI feature that lets sellers create Amazon listings for products they already sell on their website by just pasting in a link to the productโs page. Our GenAI will automatically turn it into optimized listing content for our store, saving sellers time and helping customers easily find products theyโll love. - Andy Jassy (@ajassy)
Meta to Replace Widely Used Data Toolโand Largely Cut Off Reporter Access. Platforms plans to shut down a data tool long used by academic researchers, journalists and others to monitor the spread of content on its Facebook and Instagram services, the company said on Thursday. By Jeff Horwitz via WSJ
๐: This day just took a really bad turn. The end of #Crowdtangle has come - and no real information about future data access options. All this in a year with 60+ elections worldwide that researchers will not be able to monitor. "Great" job, #Meta! - Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social (@UlrikeKlinger)
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, an AI model built for speed and affordability. San Francisco-based startup Anthropic has just released Claude 3 Haiku, the newest addition to its Claude 3 family of AI models. Haiku stands out as the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class, offering advanced vision capabilities and strong performance on industry benchmarks. By Michael Nuรฑez via VentureBeat
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