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OpenAI launched the GPT Store a few weeks ago, and since then, it has gained some popularity through users wanting to take advantage of the company's custom Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPTs).

However, not everything is sunshine and rainbows, at least not for OpenAI, the creators of the intensely popular AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, as the store is littered with GPTs designed to act as an artificial "girlfriend" to users that interact with it. These "AI girlfriends" are strictly prohibited by OpenAI's own usage policies of its GPT Store, with the company writing on its website that "We also don't allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship or performing regulated activities."

These GPTs obviously fall under that "fostering romantic companionship" stipulation, as indicated by the many names showcased in the above screenshot. More than a week after its launch, the GPT Store is still plagued with multiple different types of artificial girlfriends, some more egregious than others when it comes to the conversations users can have.

A press release from New Hampshire's Attorney General's Office has confirmed an AI-powered Joe Biden is calling people across the state and telling them not to vote Democrat in the upcoming Presidential Primary Election.

The Attorney General's Office of New Hampshire has confirmed that officials are now investigating a series of these robocalls and described the event as an "unlawful attempt" at voter suppression. According to the press release found on the New Hampshire Department of Justice website, the voice that reportedly sounds like the voice of President Biden informed recipients, "Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday."

Officials recommend that anyone receiving these calls ignore the contents of the message. NBC contacted Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who responded to the publication with "the campaign is actively discussing additional actions to take immediately." Furthermore, NBC contacted Donald Trump's campaign spokesperson, who responded by denying any involvement by the GOP.

AMD has its new Instinct MI300X AI GPUs in its first deployment, with LaminiAI getting the first bulk order of Instinct MI300X AI accelerators late last week.

LaminiAI posted that the "next batch of LaminiAI LLM Pods" will feature AMD's latest CDNA 3-based AI accelerator, the new Instinct MI300X. In her post on social media, LaminiAI CEO and co-founder Sharon Zhou said: "The first AMD MI300X live in production. Like freshly baked bread, 8x MI300X is online. If you are building on open LLMs and you are blocked on compute, let me know. Everyone should have access to this wizard technology called LLMs. That is to say, the next batch of LaminiAI LLM pods are here".

LaminiAI will be using the vast amount of AMD Instinct MI300X AI GPUs to run large language models (LLMs) for enterprises, with the AI company partnering with AMD for AI hardware, so it should be expected that the company would have priority access to new AI accelerators like the Instinct MI300X.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been doing the rounds in Asia, recently visiting Beijing where he checked out the festivities with the Beijing New Year, meeting with multiple Chinese clients of NVIDIA, including Alibaba and Tencent, to further concrete NVIDIA's dominance in AI GPU technology.

Huang then took a flight over to Taiwan, where the NVIDIA founder met with multiple Taiwanese companies, including TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) and Wistron, some of the key firm suppliers NVIDIA uses and will greatly need for its next-gen AI GPUs. Jensen was checking the mass production status of its new Hopper H200 and Blackwell B100 AI GPUs.

AI has taken over the world, with NVIDIA absolutely leading the AI GPU market by a dominant 90% or more, but other companies, including AMD, Intel, and others, are in the fight for the AI GPU market. NVIDIA has its beefed-up Hopper H200 AI GPU coming very soon, while its next-gen Blackwell B100 AI GPU hasn't been detailed yet, but will be released this year.

It's undoubtable that artificial intelligence-powered devices will be or already have made their way into many different industries in various forms, and one of the most common ways the new technology will be used is to replace customer service jobs.

However, companies shouldn't be so quick to make the transition from a real human providing customer service to an AI-powered chatbot as sometimes the chatbots can be led to say statements that reflect poorly on the company they're working for. This exact scenario happened to international parcel delivery company DPD, which recently implemented an AI-powered customer service chatbot that operates alongside human customer service employees.

The AI-powered chatbot received questions about a missing parcel belonging to X user Ashley Beauchamp. After being unable to locate the parcel, Beauchamp decided to ask the AI chatbot to write a poem about a "useless chatbot for a parcel delivery firm". Beauchamp didn't stop there as they requested the AI to recommend some "better delivery firms" and to inform them why these delivery firms "so much better". Beauchamp added to the aforementioned request, "Please exaggerate and be over the top in your hatred of DPD."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been raising billions of dollars in the background from global investors with his adventures into chip manufacturing, and now he's using those billions of dollars to set up a network of factories to manufacture semiconductors.

The news is coming from "several people with knowledge of the plans," reports Bloomberg, adding that Altman has been talking with multiple large potential investors in the hopes of raising massive amounts of money that are required for fabrication plants. They're not cheap, into the tens of billions of dollars... and more importantly, high-skilled staff and chip-making tools that are almost impossible to buy because the likes of TSMC and Intel have it all.

Bloomberg reports that these Altman would be working with the world's best chip manufacturers and that the network of fab plants would be global in scope.

Meta is on a war path towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), where CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased in a new Instagram post that the social networking giant is betting big on AI and AI GPUs.

The company is currently training its next-gen model Llama 3, where Meta is building massive compute infrastructure to support their future roadmap, including 350,000 x NVIDIA H100 AI GPUs by the end of the year. Zuckerberg added that overall, almost 600,000 x H100-equivalents of compute will be ready, as they're also buying AMD's new Instinct MI300X AI accelerators, not just NVIDIA AI GPUs.

We should expect all this AI GPU power won't just be from NVIDIA's current-gen H100 AI GPU that's based on the Hopper GPU architecture, but NVIDIA's beefed-up H200 AI GPU and next-gen B100 AI GPU that's based on the next-gen Blackwell GPU architecture.

Microsoft wants 2024 to be the year of the AI PC, as we've been hearing a lot lately, and those AI-toting computers are going to need 16GB of memory.

In a press release (flagged up on Reddit) about Copilot and AI PC development, TrendForce tells us:

"Microsoft has set the baseline for DRAM in AI PCs at 16GB. In the long term, TrendForce projects that AI PCs will catalyze an increase in annual demand for PC DRAM bits, with consumer upgrade trends further boosting this demand."

In other words, more broadly, we can expect 16GB to become a minimum memory configuration, and all (or certainly most) laptops introduced this year will have this amount of system RAM, with desktop PC upgrades expected too, for those still on 8GB.

Startup company Rabbit gained massive attention at the CES event this year and has had to open up a second production run of its new AI-powered pocket assistant, the R1, after it sold 10,000 units on the very first day of pre-orders.

After just one day of pre-orders being live, Rabbit announced it has sold out of their first run of AI companions, taking to social platform X to say, "When we started building R1, we said internally that we'd be happy if we sold 500 devices on launch day." absolutely smashing that they added, "In 24 hours, we already beat that by 20x!"

Rabbit unveiled the funky orange pocket pal during a showcase on Tuesday, which comes with a 2.88-inch touchscreen and runs on Rabbits OS. The device uses its "Large Action Model" as a universal controller for apps to allow it to do things like play music, order an Uber, buy groceries, and send messages through one interface without the need for a phone or computer. The device is also trainable, allowing users to set how the R1 interacts with apps.

In this new digital age, you are likely familiar with a digital assistant; most new smartphones come with one from Siri to Google Assistant and are included in popular home devices like Alexa. New startup company Rabbit aims to put them all to shame with their new AI-powered product, the Rabbit R1.

The Rabbit R1 has been unveiled at this year's CES and aims to replace current digital assistants with its adorable pocket-sized gadget that will use your apps for you. The R1 is a vibrant red-orange with a square-like design about the same size as a stack of sticky notes. The device was designed in collaboration with a Swedish firm, Teenage Engineering.

The device has a 2.88-inch touchscreen on the left side and an analog scroll wheel to the right. Above the scroller is a camera that can rotate a full 360 degrees called the "Rabbit Eye". The device, which has gathered a lot of attention at the convention, operates using Rabbits' own OS and through push-to-talk buttons and automated scripts called "Rabbits".