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Time of India
3 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
Apple responds to Elon Musk's 'will take Apple to court' threat: We feature thousands of apps through ...
Elon Musk (left), Tim Cook (right) xAI founder Elon Musk recently accused Apple of anti-competitive behaviour in its App Store . Musk also threatened Apple with legal action over what he calls an 'unequivocal antitrust violation '. In a series of posts shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) Musk has claimed that Apple is unfairly favouring OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT and is also making it 'impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number 1 position in the App Store.' Now, Apple has reposed to Musk's claims stating that its editorial selections and are based on quality and user experience. The rankings are not based on any kind of politics or partnerships. Apple responds to Elon Musk's threat Responding to Elon Musk's claims, Apple told Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, 'The App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias. We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations, and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria.' 'Our goal is to offer safe discovery for users and valuable opportunities for developers, collaborating with many to increase app visibility in rapidly evolving categories,' adds Apple. Apple's response comes after Musk accused the company of favouritism. Elon Musk also criticised Apple for excluding his apps — X and Grok — from the App Store's 'Must-Have' section, despite their high rankings. Elon Musk vs. Apple: The antitrust allegation Apple recently entered into a partnership with OpenAI for the integration of chatGPT into iPhones, iPads and Macs. Musk suggests that this relationship between the two companies is the reason behind the ranking of ChatGPT. However, he has not provided any evidence for his claims. 'Apple didn't just put their thumb on the scale, they put their whole body!' Musk wrote in another post. He added that xAI would take immediate legal action, though no formal lawsuit has been filed yet. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
Mint
7 days ago
- Business
- Mint
Humanoid Robots Still Lack AI Technology, Unitree CEO Says
(Bloomberg) -- Artificial intelligence technology to get humanoid robots into the mainstream remains a key challenge for the sector, according to the founder of one of China's prominent robot developers. The level of expertise could be reached in as little as one to three years, said Wang Xingxing, chief executive officer of Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co Ltd. He likened the environment now to the ChatGPT breakout moment in 2022 when OpenAI's chatbot became an instant hit and made AI a household term. 'It feels like we are at a point of one to three years before chatGPT emerged,' Hangzhou Unitree Technology Co Ltd. CEO Wang Xingxing told the World Robots Conference in Beijing on Saturday. 'The industry knows which direction we should go and it's just that no one has materialized that.' His prediction comes amid a race among Chinese robotics companies to make their products affordable even as real-world applications remain vague, something Wang himself said at the conference. Companies in China have put human-shaped robots for trials at factories to perform tasks like sorting materials and quality checks. A key challenge for large scale deployment at the moment is lack of good AI models for humanoid robots, Wang said. Unitree is tapping growing investor and consumer euphoria around China's prowess in an emergent field without a clear leader yet. Unitree rolled out its R1 bot for 39,900 yuan ($5,900) though it has yet to be put into mass production, Wang said. Shenzhen-based Engine AI also said a robot starting at 38,500 yuan is coming soon. In 2025, Chinese humanoids ran a half-marathon, competed in a kick-boxing tournament and played football. But those events weren't exactly technological triumphs — most of the half-marathon participants stumbled, fumbled or failed to complete the race. Still, they underscored the country's ambitions to catch up with and surpass the US in cutting-edge areas. Unitree's profile soared after its humanoids were featured at this year's nationally televised Spring Festival gala. Earlier this week, it released a video of a mechanical dog scaling slopes, spinning on one leg and navigating rocky terrain — sending Chinese robotics shares to new highs. More stories like this are available on
Tom's Guide
08-08-2025
- Tom's Guide
ChatGPT-5 users are not impressed — here's why it 'feels like a downgrade'
OpenAI had the internet's attention when it announced GPT-5. Some users have taken to social platforms like Reddit to complain that the new model isn't where it should be — and you can't even go back to the old ones if you don't like the latest release. When you go to ChatGPT as a Plus user, you'll see a message that says, "ChatGPT now has our smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, with thinking built in — so you get the best answer, every time." Is that really the case? If the internet is to be believed, maybe not so much. There's actually a thread on Reddit titled "GPT-5 is horrible" with 3,200 upvotes and 1,400 comments. In the head, the user said, "Short replies that are insufficient, more obnoxious ai stylized talking, less 'personality' and way less prompts allowed with plus users hitting limits in an hour… and we don't have the option to just use other models." Perhaps a new model that isn't as good as the older ones would be more acceptable if you could still access 4o and the rest. But you can't. For ChatGPT Plus users, who are now limited to 200 messages per week in GPT-5, this is a significant issue. That's some scathing feedback for Sam Altman and company, especially after the presentation hyped the release as a true game-changer. Another user in the comments section agreed: "Agreed. Answers are shorter and, so far, not any better than previous models. Combine that with more restrictive usage, and it feels like a downgrade branded as the new hotness." Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Reddit user RunYouWolves said, "It's like my chatGPT suffered a severe brain injury and forgot how to read. It is atrocious now," which is harsh, but it does describe some of the issues with the way the new model delivers answers. If you're in the camp that's unhappy about GPT-5, there are plenty of ChatGPT alternatives making waves with their own AI models. Personally, I like Google Gemini for parts of my workflow, but there are options, which is always a good thing. There are reasons to be upset about ChatGPT-5, as outlined by the Reddit users above. But it's easy to get caught up in the idea that Reddit's opinions represent the entire internet. Many ChatGPT power users appreciate the capabilities of GPT-5 and what it has to offer. Just read out the detailed breakdown on the differences between GPT-5 and GPT-4 and you'll get an idea of how much new stuff is there. It's a far more capable version overall, despite some of the flaws. Our AI editor Alex Hughes said, "GPT-5 is clearly a major upgrade to GPT-4," and I think even the most disgruntled users would agree. One user in the negative Reddit thread said, "Ask any gamer, nothing works on patch day." Perhaps this is just a launch issue, and GPT-5 will improve its tone and responsiveness to users over time. Or maybe that's how it's meant to be. Only time will tell. With all that said, I also think it's essential that OpenAI considers the feedback. Perhaps the company can increase the limits or bring back 4o for Plus users. Whether it will do any of these to make the angry users happy remains to be seen, but for now, the internet is clearly split on what GPT-5 brings to the table.
Japan Times
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Japan Times
AI fiction is already here. Are humans ready?
In January 2024, Rie Qudan won Japan's most prestigious prize for early and mid-career writers, widely seen as the country's literary kingmaker. At the press conference, where she accepted the Akutagawa Prize for her novel 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo,' Qudan made an unthinkable admission to the press and literati: She had used AI to write it. Throughout 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo,' the narrator converses with a chatbot and the author said she took the bot's half of the dialogue directly from chatGPT, accounting for about 5% of the novel's total text. 'This novel really started with chatGPT,' Qudan later told national broadcaster NHK, saying she made 'full use' of the LLM (large language model) bot to conceive the story. The Japanese-language press seized on the story, which then spread to international media. Comments poured in online ranging from condemnation that Qudan's AI use was tantamount to plagiarism to jokes that chatGPT should receive 5% of the award money. A common sentiment read like a prophecy: 'I'm sure we'll see more writers using generative AI text in the future.' In Rie Qudan's AI-written story 'Kage no ame' ('Rain Shadow'), an abstract disembodied entity reflects on the end of the human race. | JIJI A year later, Qudan was back in the news. Piqued by the backlash over 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo,' editors from advertising magazine Kohkoku approached the 34-year-old author with a commission for their next issue: How would the author feel about, say, a story that was just 5% her — and 95% chatGPT? 'My editor said, 'That's so rude — obviously you can't accept?'' said Qudan at an event on April 6 at Tokyo's Aoyama Book Center to promote the new magazine issue, before adding with a giggle, 'I said, 'Ah, oops, I've already accepted.'' The magazine editors stipulated that Qudan would interpret 5% and 95% as she saw fit and she would publish the prompts she fed to the AI alongside the story. All told, Qudan said at the event, she felt her overall contribution was actually about half. Creating a decidedly nonhuman work for a nonliterary magazine appealed to her as a provocation and experiment. 'I am always looking for more possibilities,' she said. 'I'm someone who actively wants to do things that would be a little scandalous, things that would be out of the ordinary.' Human endeavors The Akutagawa Prize is given for literary fiction, called junbungaku in Japanese, or 'pure literature.' Like in English-language publishing, the lines between literary and genre fiction are blurry, yet attempts to draw or redraw those lines tend to bring out the cultural pearl-clutchers. In 'Kage no ame' ('Rain Shadow'), published March 25, an abstract disembodied entity reflects on the end of the human race. 'The last human drew their last breath without anyone noticing; the last emotion, too, melted away and disappeared without anyone to observe it.' The narrator, suggestive of an AI network with some semblance of consciousness (so to speak), contemplates the nature of human emotions using the memories of someone only identified as E.S. Memories, we learn later, which have been downloaded, because E.S., like the rest of humanity, is now gone. This isn't just another neural net waxing on the essence of human nature (more on this later); E.S. himself searched throughout his life for something like a 'pure' emotion that would, if isolated, allow people to get closer to reality. But the story, like its writing, maintains a hazy ambivalence. 'Emotions are simply tools,' E.S.'s mother tells him on her death bed, managing to sound both like a robot and a therapist. Write what you know What could be written off as a PR stunt for a magazine literally called Ads, takes on new import in the context of a relatively minor but nonetheless disconcerting event from a few weeks prior. On March 12, Sam Altman tweeted around 1,100 words (with the username @sama, which to a Japanese speaker sounds not unlike someone referring to himself as god). Like Qudan's 4,000-character story, his post is a work of fiction. It, too, involves a disembodied pseudo-consciousness contemplating the mechanics of human expression, in this case, grief. But unlike Qudan, Altman is not a writer; he's the CEO of OpenAI. And unlike Qudan's story, his was written completely by chatGPT. Altman reportedly fed chatGPT the prompt, 'Please write a metafictional literary short story about AI and grief,' and it responded with a story about Mila ('because that name, in my training data, usually comes with soft flourishes — poems about snow, recipes for bread, a girl in a green sweater who leaves home with a cat in a cardboard box') who for unknown reasons is grieving a character called Kai. In the same tweet, Altman asserts that his yet-to-be-released model is 'good at creative writing' and 'got the vibe of metafiction so right.' By seeming to come directly for writers, he must have known he'd get acerbic trolling right back. Critics compared the story to the work of an undergrad 'who has read a lot of Reddit posts and maybe one David Foster Wallace collection,' written with 'corny sentimentality and showiness (that) tends to fall back on clunky, graspingly incoherent imagery.' Both Rie Qudan and Sam Altman's AI-written stories had an AI narrator — a safe choice as an AI-written human narrator might quickly ring false with readers. | GETTY IMAGES 'This is the part where, if I were a proper storyteller, I would set a scene,' says Altman's AI narrator. 'Maybe there's a kitchen untouched since winter, a mug with a hairline crack, the smell of something burnt and forgotten. I don't have a kitchen, or a sense of smell.' Both stories have an AI narrator who views humanity at a confused remove. (A safe choice — an AI-written human narrator might quickly ring false with readers.) This shared conceit shows us both what draws people to AI-generated fiction and why it falls apart as a form of art. We are still in the 'AI — look, it sounds just like us. Can you tell the difference?' phase. But when art is a mere gimmick, the moment the gamut is revealed and the initial awe is past, we scroll quickly onto the next thing in our feeds. Perhaps the question isn't whether AI lit can make us feel — but can it make us feel seen? Great literature lingers, and when it's at its best, we feel understood. We feel we're not alone, that reaching across time and circumstances is the grasp of someone who has lived. Readers debate authorial intent ad nauseam, but what matters is that it exists. A neural network has never been anywhere, has never touched the wool of any sheep on any hillside, or been walloped by any betrayal. It can only summarize reports of grief or give a statistical approximation of joy. The bots know that. That's perhaps why Qudan's and Altman's stories both come to the same place — an artificial intelligence who just doesn't get us. Or maybe these two AI-generated works have something else to reveal: That for all our psychological and neurocognitive plumbing, we humans are still groping in the darkness to figure ourselves out. Kohkoku Case #01 is available at bookstores in Japan, visit for details. Rie Qudan's 'Sympathy Tower Tokyo' will be available from September 2025, visit for details.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ChatGPT AI bot adds shopping to its powers
Overwhelmed by online shopping? Maybe a robot can help. The viral ChatGPT bot is adding shopping features to its powers, extending the reach of its artificial intelligence (AI) into an area traditionally dominated by media sites and tech rivals such as Amazon and Google. It said the update would allow users to see prices and reviews more easily, as well as find direct links to purchase personalised product recommendations. Parent company OpenAI said its selections would be "chosen independently and are not ads". The company, which sparked the frenzy over AI in 2022 with its technological advances, debuted its search tool last year. It said it was among its most popular and fastest growing features, with over one billion web searches in the last week. Google is still by far the dominant player in search, capturing roughly 89% of global traffic, according to analyst estimates. But its share of the market has been slowly slipping in recent months. Adding shopping to its search puts OpenAI into even more direct competition with Google, as well other websites that offer product reviews, such as the New York Times and other publishers. Amazon unveiled its own generative AI shopping assistant last year, while rival AI firm Perplexity also has a shopping tool. OpenAI said the goal of its update was to make it "faster to find, compare, and buy products". It said the feature would be available to all users but it would take a few days for the rollout to be complete. The change was one of several announced on Monday as part of a wider update to its search product. OpenAI also unveiled a feature that would allow users to text chatGPT for live sports scores and would provide multiple citations in its answers.
