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Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price — CNBC

Amazon is upgrading its decade-old Alexa voice assistant with generative artificial intelligence and plans to charge a monthly subscription fee to offset the cost of the technology, writes Kate Rooney in CNBC.

OpenAI dissolves team focused on long-term AI risks, less than one year after announcing it — CNBC

The news comes days after both team leaders, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, announced their departures from the Microsoft-backed startup, writes Hayden Field in CNBC.

Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as CPO

Anthropic has appointed Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, as its chief product officer.

Palo Alto Networks, Accenture expand alliance to offer generative AI services

Palo Alto Networks and Accenture have announced the expansion of their strategic alliance to provide new offerings that combine Palo Alto Networks' Precision AI technology with Accenture's secure generative AI services. 

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o: A free multimodal AI model for real-time audio, vision, and text

OpenAI has announced the release of GPT-4o, a new flagship AI model that can process and generate a combination of text, audio, and images in real-time.