Companies not ready for generative AI at scale
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But Accenture boss warns it is bigger than all of us

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet told the Financial Times that most companies are not ready to deploy generative AI at scale because they lack strong data infrastructure or the controls needed to ensure the technology is used safely.

TomTom teams up with Microsoft
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AI for cars

Digital mapping specialist TomTom has partnered with tech giant Microsoft to create an artificial intelligence (AI)--powered conversational assistant for vehicles.

AI helps Imran Khan campaign from behind bars
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Could be useful for a lot of politicians 

AI allowed Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan to campaign from behind bars, with a voice clone of the opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his behalf.

ByteDance may have nicked OpenAI's tech
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Developed its own competing large language model (LLM)

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has been accused of using OpenAI's technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM).

Microsoft releases Phi-2 small language model
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Better than a Llama

Microsoft Research has announced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI programme that is "small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device."