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ARN has sent a survey to listeners designed to gauge their level of comfort with AI radio presenters.The survey — flagged in The Australian —  was sent out to listeners of 91.1 Hot FM on the Sunshine Coast on Friday, and included a section subtitled ‘Thinking about AI-powered voices replacing human voices in radio’.The audio network’s interest in AI is particularly relevant given it used an entirely AI-generated host “Thy” on Sydney-based CADA station for six months, without disclosure.In the survey, listeners were asked whether they agreed or disagreed with a number of statements, including ‘If I cannot tell that…

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Google plans to make it easier for users to access AI mode by allowing them to set it as the default, replacing the traditional blue links. AI mode is an advanced version of Google Search that uses large language models to summarise information from the web, so you can spend more time on Google than visiting websites. Google AI mode advanced analysis Source: BleepingComputer Google AI mode can answer complex answers, process images, summarize information on the web, create tables, graphs, charts, and even help you code. AI mode toggle on search Source: BleepingComputer Right now, AI mode is optional.…

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and run its new ChatGPT models and other AI products. The deal will reportedly put $10 billion into the pockets of…

How can startups and developers actually monetize their AI products? A startup called Koah, which recently raised $5 million in seed funding, is betting that ads will be a big part of the answer. If you spend any time online, there’s a good chance you’ve seen plenty of ugly, AI-generated ads — but few to none when interacting with AI chatbots themselves. Koah co-founder and CEO Nic Baird argued that will inevitably change. “Once these things get outside San Francisco, there’s only one way to make [them profitable] on a global scale,” Baird told TechCrunch over Zoom. “It’s happened time…

In the bustling world of customer service, artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of engagement. Call centers, once synonymous with endless hold times and scripted responses, are undergoing a profound transformation as AI chatbots and virtual assistants take center stage. This shift is not just about efficiency; it’s reshaping how companies interact with customers, blending technology with human touchpoints in ways that were unimaginable a decade ago. Take the case of Armen Kirakosian, a call center agent in Greece who now relies on AI to pull up comprehensive customer profiles before even picking up the phone. As detailed in…

As OpenAI would have it, interest in Generative AI is going to to continue to go up and up until they make so much revenue their annual revenue exceeds the annual revenues of companies like Ford, BMW, and Bank of America. On a path to make $13 billion last year, they are projecting $200 billion in revenue in 2030, according to a September 5 story at The Information. Which they would need, because as the same story reports, training costs are immense. On computing costs alone, they are expecting to burn $150 billion between 2025 and 2030. They are burning…

Google has today released the Gemma 3 family of models, which represents a significant advancement in the field of artificial intelligence. These models introduce new improvements in multimodal capabilities, extended context handling, multilingual support, and training efficiency. Designed to address a wide range of needs, the lineup includes four models—1B, 4B, 12B, and 27B parameters—available in both base and instruction fine-tuned versions. Whether you’re a researcher seeking innovative tools or a developer tackling complex challenges, Gemma 3 offers a robust and adaptable framework to meet your requirements. Google’s Gemma 3 family of models is an innovative leap forward in multimodal…

Don’t miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google.California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings have sent a letter to OpenAI, expressing serious concerns about the risks the ChatGPT maker’s products pose to children and promising to subject the company’s for-profit pivot to review.The attorneys general also said they intend to review OpenAI’s proposed pivot to becoming a commercial entity “to ensure the nonprofit beneficiaries’ interests are adequately protected” and that “the mission of the nonprofit remains paramount.” The letter comes just under a week after the parents of 16-year-old…

On September 7, Fast Technology reported that Tencent Hunyuan announced that the Hunyuan translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B has topped the Hugging Face model trend chart.The official statement indicated that this model, along with the latest member of the Hunyuan world model family, HunyuanWorld-Voyager, occupies two of the top three spots.It is understood that Hunyuan-MT-7B was open-sourced on September 1, with a total parameter count of only 7B, supporting 33 languages and 5 dialects for mutual translation, making it a comprehensive lightweight translation model. In the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) WMT2025 competition that concluded at the end of August, Hunyuan-MT-7B…