Digital world

  Popular news site Semafor has just rolled out a powerful AI-based editorial tool  dubbed Signals . The tool is said to make use of AI-based research, attaining help from Microsoft’s Bing and ChatGPT. What users get in the end is a news feed from various sources around the globe, as mentioned by the startup on Monday. Microsoft is providing full sponsorship for Signals and also rolling out a disguised amount in the name of funding, as mentioned by  The Financial Times . It created the customized AI bot so that journalists can benefit from this OpenAI platform as well as Bing. Meanwhile, Site Editors spoke about the findings arising from the chatbot and how it was able to generate all kinds of accurate answers, produce synopses, and also cite sources if need be. Meanwhile, another post was found on X where the editor-in-chief spoke about the great efforts involved in bettering the digital media landscape that’s been  broken  for years. They spoke about how AI to...

  A new and alarming study has taken center stage and it has proven how AI lobbying has attained record-breaking figures. The surge in AI lobbying that arose in 2023 was so massive that figures depicted a whopping 185% rise from stats seen in 2022. The change is huge and in the past, we saw close to 158 different firms participating and now, it’s nearly 450 different companies that are a part of the activity which has experts talking. The news comes to us thanks to federal lobbying findings that were analyzed by the likes of  OpenSecrets in collaboration with CNBC . The huge rise in AI lobbying arrives at a time when there are more calls for regulating AI and now, we’re watching President Biden’s admin start codifying such regulations. Remember, firms that started lobbying during the start of 2023 wished to have a word on how regulation would impact the businesses entailing the likes of TikTok and Tesla. Others that were a part of the list included Spotify, Shopify, Pinterest,...

  The EU anticipates a positive economic impact of approximately €600 billion from AI, contributing to an estimated total economic impact of €3.4 trillion through widespread technology adoption. According to a survey conducted by Strand Partners, over a third of EU firms have adopted AI, bringing digital goals within reach. The survey  commissioned by Amazon Web Services  (AWS) found that 38% of companies were experimenting with AI, which is a 32% growth rate over last year. The EU aims to empower businesses and people in a human-centric, sustainable, and more prosperous digital future through its ‘ 2030 Digital Decade ‘ vision, presented by the European Commission in 2021 to change the region, with 80% of the population learning basic digital skills, ubiquitous 5G connectivity, and 75% of EU firms using cloud services. Why does it matter? The EU initiative has concrete targets and objectives for 2030 that can be summarised in four points: 1. digitally skilled citizens an...