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Microsoft has stated that Windows 10 would no longer get any new major features. Instead, the company would continue to release security updates for the OS until October 14, 2025. Well, it looks like Windows 10 is set to receive a pretty major feature - with the previously Windows 11 exclusive AI-powered assistant Copilot set to arrive soon.

The reason comes down to numbers. Microsoft might be focusing its attention and development on Windows 11, but many more Windows 10 users are out there. According to StatCounter, as of October 2023, Windows 10 still holds over 69% of the total Windows market share, followed by just over 26% for Windows 11.

This data is backed up by the latest Steam Hardware & Survey results for October 2023, which shows Windows 10 sitting on 65.6% market share with PC gamers, with Windows 11 sitting on 30.5%. Copilot coming to Windows 10 will bring the AI-powered companion to millions of people.

OpenAI announced its new Q* project in its venture towards AGI (artificial general intelligence) to which Elon Musk says is "extremely concerning" and then tweeted out "Q*Anon" in response to the Q* announcement from OpenAI.

OpenAI has reportedly made some great progress on its Q* (pronounced Q-Star) project, which is one of the main goals of the company -- hitting AGI -- with an AI system that is massively smarter than us mere humans. The obvious point is that it's called Q*, which if you've not been living under a rock, would be a funny thing if you were a conspiracy theorist... after all, it's called Q* and the largest "LARP" and "conspiracy theory" of the last decade has been Q, or what the media refers to as "Qanon".

There is no "Qanon" on the 4chan boards when Q was posting, Q only refers to themselves (we don't know if it's a he, a she, or a group of people) as "Q" and not "Qanon". The above is Q drop "4881" which points to the fact that Q said back in 2020 that "there is 'Q'" and that "there are 'Anons'", but "there is no 'Qanon'". This was a reply to Elon's tweet on X from @NotOpCue.

Well, today will be known as one of the most important days in history... where we're finding out that OpenAI has had a breakthrough in AI with the introduction of Q* (pronounced Q-Star), and that's behind the firing of OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.

While internally, OpenAI believes that this AI breakthrough in their search for artificial general intelligence (AGI) is another step in their progress with Q*. AGI has been one of the points scientists, researchers, and especially AI companies like OpenAI have been striving towards. AGI systems are smarter than humans... it's not just a chatbot anymore, but something different entirely.

Going with a little bit of fringe thinking here, but has this Q* been the one behind all of the absolutely insane, wow moments of AI drama? Because at this point, it would all start to make sense as one large "conspiracy" that is unfolding in front of our eyes.

First off, OpenAI ousted its co-founder and CEO, Sam Altman, out of nowhere... just days ago. He was followed by key OpenAI staff, and then Microsoft hired Altman to run a new advanced AI research division of the company... after that, 700+ of the 800 employees wrote to the OpenAI board demanding if Altman wasn't reinstated, they'd all leave to Microsoft with Altman.

And now... now the OpenAI board is reportedly talking to Altman about his return as a director on a transitional board of OpenAI.

OpenAI's vice president of global affairs, Anna Makanju, sent a memo to OpenAI staff informing them that the company had "intense discussions" with the board and that Altman and new CEO Emmett Shear would be working together inside of OpenAI. Of course, they need to promise this because they're about to lose all of their staff to Microsoft, where they'll join Altman, who the board is in talks with to return. It feels like I have the triple-check that last sentence, but it's exactly what's happened.

This year, we've seen some impressive performance improvements and driver releases for the Intel Arc lineup of discrete graphics cards from the engineers at Intel. From sizable performance gains in modern titles like Starfield to how the GPUs handle DirectX 11 with triple-digit performance improvements in older games like Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Yakuza 0, and Guild Wars 2.

The latest update and driver release for Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards introduces another massive performance increase in the region of 2.7X on the flagship Intel Arc A770 GPU. However, this one is all about AI, with the gains coming from Intel working closely with Microsoft to bring optimizations to DirectML for Intel Arc.

To demonstrate the buff, which uses Microsoft's open-source Olive tool for AI optimization, the Olive-optimized Stable Diffusion XL text-to-image generator from Stability AI sees up to a 2.7X increase in performance on the Intel Arc A770 after you factor in additional driver improvements.

If you keep an eye on the AI market or know about, or even use, ChatGPT, then you've heard about OpenAI being a mess over the weekend. The AI leader fired its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, whom Microsoft then hired to run a new AI team, and now most OpenAI staffers are threatening to quit if their demands aren't met.

Their demands? The OpenAI board resigns immediately.

Over 700 of the employees at OpenAI out of the roughly 770 employees there, signed a letter on Monday that addressed the OpenAI board stating that those who signed it are "unable to work for or with people that lack competence, judgment and care for our mission and employees".

Microsoft has officially hired Sam Altman, who will lead a new advanced artificial intelligence team after he was fired from OpenAI by the board, and then within hours of Microsoft hiring him, OpenAI tried to rehire and reinstate him as CEO.

In a new tweet, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said: "We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners".

"We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success".

OpenAI's board of directors recently fired CEO Sam Altman, triggering massive controversy in the growing billion-dollar sector. Analysts believe Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will help calm the tumult and restore morale to the company.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been fired, with the board citing that Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities."

It's believed that Altman's side project Tigris is to blame for his termination--the OpenAI CEO had been seeking to raise billions of dollars to create new chips to unseat NVIDIA's dominant market position.

In what seems to be a completely unexpected departure from the hottest company in Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was fired from his position on Friday.

The departure of Altman seemingly came out of nowhere, with no inkling of the firing being found anywhere online. The board of OpenAI took to its website to announce that it has lost faith in Altman's ability to continue leading the company and that he was "not consistently candid in his communications". OpenAI's board gave a statement and said that it's "grateful for Sam's many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI," while adding, "At the same time, we believe new leadership is necessary as we move forward."

Altman responded a few hours later with a post on X, saying, "i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people. Will have more to say about what's next later." Altman described the experience as feeling like "reading your own eulogy while you're still alive."

Reports indicate that Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI (RAI) team, which was dedicated to ensuring Meta develops AI-powered systems responsibly.

The splitting up of the team was discovered through a new report published in The Information, which cited an internal post it gained access to. The report stated that the majority of the now-former RAI team was to be moved to the generative AI product team, which is currently working on various projects with AI-generated content such as text, video, images, and audio. Some of the other former members of the RAI team have been moved to the AI infrastructure team, which is a more technical-based position.

These changes are hardly a surprise as company CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that tough times were ahead for the company as it would be undergoing a cleaning house and complete reshuffling as a result of the economic climate. Zuckerberg said back in February that 2023 was the "year of efficiency" that will be honed in on identifying Meta's key strengths and doubling down on them. That year-long and ongoing process has seen many rounds of layoffs, internal mergers, and various company restructurings.

Designed for its lineup of Radeon RX 7000 GPUS, ASRock AI QuickSet is a new software tool from the company that allows you to download and install popular AI applications like Shark Studio AI and Stable Diffusion web UI and frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch - and then fire them up!

ASRock has created the application to alleviate the complexities and unknowns surrounding running AI tools on modern PCs, and it's compatible with all Intel 13th and 14th gen systems and AMD Ryzen 7000 and 5000 series systems running ASRock Radeon RX 7000 Series GPUs. Software-wise, in addition to the latest Radeon driver release from AMD, you'll also need Windows 11 22H2 64-bit or later.

It's a very cool tool and something we're surprised hasn't been put together until now. With a simple installation window that lets you pick and choose which AI applications to install, all you need to do from there is fire up the AI applications via ASRock's launcher, and you're good to go.

Sam Altman's name has been plastered over headlines across the weekend, with the ChatGPT maker OpenAI founder and CEO being ousted from the company. But did you know he wanted to build an AI GPU that would compete with GPU makers like AMD and NVIDIA?

Altman was working on something codenamed Tigris, according to people familiar with the matter, writes Fortune. The now ex-CEO of OpenAI had been traveling to the Middle East to fund his project with the AI-focused chip company that would be producing chips that would compete against AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and others in the AI GPU space.

The new AI chip company wasn't something big yet -- not even formed -- with talks with investors in their early stages. Altman had been developing the new AI chip with Apple's former design boss, Jony Ive, so it would've been revolutionary and stunning, to say the least.

Today has been a crazy day in the world of AI, with ChatGPT superstar OpenAI firing its CEO -- Sam Altman -- out of nowhere, with CTO Mura Murati stepping up into the role of CEO in the interim.

Sam posted on Twitter: "The board of directors of OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) that acts as the overall governing body for all OpenAI activities, today announced that Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company's chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately".

The co-founder and CEO of OpenAI was pushed out of his company after the board accused Altman of "being not consistently candid in his communications". OpenAI's board "no longer has confidence in his ability to lead" and that new leadership was "necessary" for the company to move forward.

Microsoft formally announced its custom AI chips at the company's Ignite conference - the Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 CPU built using Arm architecture and the Microsoft Azure Maia AI Accelerator, a GPU designed and optimized for generative AI and large language models. Both are set to arrive in 2024, and based on the current demand for NVIDIA hardware like the H100 GPUs, it could see Microsoft and its massive Azure cloud move away from having to buy pricey chips from other companies.

The Azure Cobalt 100 CPU and Azure Maia 100 AI Accelerator have been developed in-house at Microsoft, alongside an overhaul of the entire Azure cloud server stack as the Age of AI begins. The Maia 100 AI Accelerator uses TSMCC's 5nm process with 105 billion transistors, which is higher than the NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU's 80 billion. However, it is lower than the 153 billion found on AMD's MI300X AI GPU built on a similar 5nm process.

Of course, transistor counts and overall performance are two different things, but it's an impressive showing from Microsoft. And it's the very first liquid-cooled processor built by Microsoft.

For quite some time, YouTube has been against any content posted to its platform that has been technically manipulated, but now the Google-owned company has made what could be considered its biggest push yet to stop the spread of specific content that it believes may have the potential of harming viewers.

The latest YouTube rulebook change was announced on Tuesday via a blog post, and the world's largest video platform explained that its policy update will now require creators to add labels to their content before uploading. These labels would be applied to any "manipulated or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI tools." The idea behind this change is to protect viewers from being misled by content that has been manipulated using AI tools, while also differentiating "realistic", or normal content.

Additionally, YouTube specified that this new rule change will be particularly important for content that discusses sensitive topics such as elections, ongoing conflicts, public health crises, or public officials. Ahead of YouTube's coming change, which is scheduled to be rolled out to YouTube's upload process sometime early next year, digital information experts have sounded the alarm over the exponential emergence of AI tools used to generate misleading content that is then shared across various social media platforms - potentially misleading the public.

Last week Oscar-nominated star Scarlett Johannson launched legal action against an AI app that cloned her likeness for profit.

The new report comes from Variety and explains that Johannson has filed legal action against AI-app "Lisa AI: 90s Yearbook & Avatar", which according to the suit used an AI-generated version of Johannson's voice along with an image. The ad was seen by publications and showed a real-life behind-the-scenes clip of Johannson playing Black Widow where she is seen saying, "What's up guys. It's Scarlett and I want you to come with me...".

The ad then cuts to AI-generated photos and a cloned version of her voice that promotes the Lisa AI app. The ad actually states the following, "Images produced by Lisa AI. It has nothing to do with this person." Since the legal action was filed the Lisa AI app still remains on both the App Store and Google Play Store. However, the specific ad in question has been removed from the app, along with additional advertisements that were published on X, formerly Twitter.

AI is the future, and with news that Microsoft would be using "AI PC" branding in 2024, it makes sense that AMD is leaping forward with its "Advancing AI" event penciled in for December 6.

AMD has just scheduled its Advanced AI event for December 6 at 10 AM PST, 12 PM CST, or 1 PM EST, which we typically see held in a timeslot when data center products are unveiled by AMD. We should see AMD unveil its next-gen MI300X datacenter GPU, which makes sense... it'll be fighting against NVIDIA's monster H100 AI GPU.

But, I think leading into CES 2024, just weeks later, AMD is going to use the event to tease AI on regular Ryzen CPUs for gamers, content creators, and everyone in between. Given that AMD's own Senior Director for Gaming Marketing, Sasa Marinkovic, tweeted about the event... we could expect AI-related gaming news on December 6, and if that's just a tease, AI-powered content from AMD at CES 2024.

NVIDIA's industry-leading H100 Tensor Core GPUs have set new records in the latest industry-standard tests, flexing their AI GPU muscle in the latest MLPerf industry benchmarks.

The NVIDIA Eos AI supercomputer packs an incredible 10,752 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and NVIDIA's Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, which has just completed a training benchmark based on the GPT-3 model with 175 billion parameters trained on 1 billion tokens in just 3.9 minutes. It might not sound like much, but that's nearly 3x faster than the previous world record that NVIDIA set with 10.9 minutes. That's a full 7 minutes shaved off.

The MLPerf benchmark uses a part of the full GPT-3 data set that powers the super-popular ChatGPT service, with NVIDIA teasing its Eos AI supercomputer could train in just 8 days, which is a mind-blowing 73x faster than the previous state-of-the-art system powered by 512 NVIDIA A100 GPUs. The huge speed-up in training time means reduced costs, energy savings, and super-speeds the time-to-market for companies using NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs for their AI products.

Baidu has just placed a large order with Huawei for its Ascend AI chips, with the deal happening in China because of US sanctions and control of what Chinese companies can buy from the likes of AMD and, especially, NVIDIA.

The cloud giant purchased 1600 of Huawei's new Ascend 910B AI chips, which the Chinese company developed as an alternative to NVIDIA's A100 AI GPU. Reuters' sources report that Baudi will use the 1600 new Huawei AI chips for 200 servers and that by the end of last month, the company had delivered over 60% of the order -- or around 1000 chips.

Baidu's AI chip order with Huawei is said to cost around 450 million yuan ($61.83 million USD), and Huawei will deliver each and every one of the 1600 x 910B Ascend AI chips by the end of the year. The order of $61 million worth of AI GPUs isn't much when you consider that companies are buying hundreds if not thousands of high-end NVIDIA AI GPUs for tens of thousands of dollars each... but it signals something more important: Baidu moving -- even if it's slowly -- away from NVIDIA AI GPUs and into using Huawei AI GPUs.

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced its first AI model called Grok, inspired by Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Like other AI language models, Grok will attempt to answer any question you throw at it with the bonus of suggesting what questions to ask. Interestingly, Grok is described as having "a rebellious streak," with the announcement saying, "Please don't use it if you hate humor."

Grok's "real-time knowledge" of the world comes via X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The announcement, which reads like something Elon Musk wrote, also adds that Grok will answer "spicy questions that are rejected by most other AI systems."

Launching this week, Grok is currently in "very early beta" thanks to only four months of development and two months of training, but like all AI large language models, it's expected to improve and grow over time.