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[ad_1] Hundreds of thousands of conversations that users had with Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok are easily accessible through Google Search, reports Forbes. Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text, or on social media. According to Forbes, those URLs are being indexed by search engines like Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, which in turn lets anyone look up those conversations on the web.  Users of Meta‘s and OpenAI‘s chatbots were recently affected by a similar problem, and…

[ad_1] FieldAI, an Irvine, California-based robotics startup, has raised $405 million across multiple previously undisclosed rounds to develop what it calls “foundational embodied AI models” — essentially robot brains designed to help everything from humanoids to quadrupeds to self-driving cars adapt to new environments. The company announced the funding Wednesday; the most recent round raised $314 million in August and was co-led by Bezos Expeditions, Prysm, and Temasek. FieldAI’s other backers include Khosla Ventures, Intel Capital, and Canaan Partners, among others. Unlike traditional AI that processes text or images, embodied AI refers to AI that controls physical robots moving through…

[ad_1] There may be no evidence that AI is conscious, but Mustafa Suleyman is concerned that it might become advanced enough to convince some people that it is.In a personal essay published Tuesday, the Microsoft AI CEO described this phenomenon as “Seemingly Conscious AI,” which he defined as having “all the hallmarks of other conscious beings and thus appears to be conscious.”Its arrival could be “dangerous” for society, Suleyman wrote, because it could lead to people forming attachments to AI and advocating for AI rights.”It disconnects people from reality, fraying fragile social bonds and structures, distorting pressing moral priorities,” he…

[ad_1] Meta just made the biggest reorganization of its artificial intelligence operations to date.Business Insider obtained the full email sent by 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, the leader of Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, to all Meta employees who work on AI.As the AI arms race continues, Meta has been assembling an all-star team of talent, trying to poach researchers from rival AI labs with massive offers as it races to build “personal superintelligence.” Tensions have already emerged within the newly formed team between the lavishly compensated new hires and the existing researchers, some of whom have threatened to quit, Business Insider…

[ad_1] “It wasn’t one big lightbulb; it was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Aryee said when asked what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch SRE.ai.  The company is offering natural language AI agents that can perform complex enterprise DevOps workflows like continuous integration and testing.  “Instead of stitching together different low-code tools for enterprise applications like Salesforce, compared to products built on AWS, GCP, or Azure, teams can now move faster with context-driven, chat-like experiences that work across all of them,” Kadiyala, who is the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch.  The duo thought of the product while…

[ad_1] Bank of America is growing bullish on Snowflake one week before it releases second-quarter earnings results. The Wall Street investment bank upgraded its investment opinion on the maker of cloud data warehousing software to buy from neutral, and raised its price target to $240 from $220, implying more than 24% upside from Tuesday’s close. The upgrade comes ahead of the company’s results for the quarter that ended July 31, due to be released post-market Aug. 27. BofA analyst Brad Sills expects “solid” financials, reinforcing a multi-year cycle of strong growth. “While we believe that Q2 earnings will be a…

[ad_1] Here are Wednesday’s biggest calls on Wall Street: JPMorgan upgrades Upstart Holdings to overweight from neutral JPMorgan said it’s getting more constructive on shares of the fintech lender. “We are upgrading Upstart to OW (from N). We lean positive on the more seasoned fintech lenders, given a favorable macro backdrop (e.g., stable credit and potential rate cuts), and we believe Upstart offers the best risk/reward among personal loan originators.” Read more. KeyBanc reiterates Nvidia as overweight KeyBanc raised its price target to $215 per share from $190 ahead of earnings next week. “We expect NVDA to report strong F2Q…

[ad_1] A possible improvement in earnings performance could send shares of Nu Holdings higher over the coming months, according to Citi. The firm double upgraded the Brazil-based financial firm to buy from sell and doubled its price target to $18 from $9, which implies more than 37% upside from Tuesday’s close. “Despite concerns on the macroeconomic environment (which we think is performing better than expected), we see the recent quarters as a testament to the bank’s ability to not only navigate well but also accelerate in key portfolios while maintaining good asset quality,” analyst Gustavo Schroden wrote. “We see the…

[ad_1] An improved macroeconomic outlook could boost Upstart Holdings shares, JPMorgan said on Wednesday. The firm upgraded the online lender to overweight from neutral but cut its price target on the name to $88 from $93. That updated target still implies nearly 43% upside from Tuesday’s close. “We lean positive on the more seasoned fintech lenders, given a favorable macro backdrop (e.g., stable credit and potential rate cuts), and we believe Upstart offers the best risk/reward among personal loan originators (e.g., Neutral-rated SoFi and LendingClub),” analyst Reginald Smith wrote in a note to clients. UPST 1M mountain UPST, 1-month The…

[ad_1] A new wave of flippable and foldable phones is shaking up the US smartphone market, long dominated by Apple’s iPhone.The iPhone remains king, but flip phones are spurring innovation and gaining momentum with consumers.”There is quite a bit of buzz around this,” Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee told Business Insider. Still, he said foldables remain niche, representing 1% to 2% of the smartphone market.Companies including Samsung, Motorola, and Google have ventured into foldable or flippable smartphones — Samsung with the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, Motorola with its Razr flip phones, and Google with its Pixel Fold models.In…