Most Read: OpenAI Warns ChatGPT Voice Feature May Lead to Unhealthy Attachment, Intel Sells $147M Stake in Arm

Here are the most-read stories on AI Business this week.

OpenAI Warns New ChatGPT Voice Feature May Lead to Unhealthy Attachment

OpenAI cautioned that some users may become emotionally reliant on ChatGPT’s updated audio features.

The revamped ChatGPT Voice Mode, powered by the new GPT-4o model, provides users with the ability to have more natural, real-time conversations with the chatbot.

Upon publishing the GPT-4o system card, OpenAI issued a warning over the potential risk that some users may anthropomorphize the feature, attributing human-like behaviors and characteristics to the chatbot.

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Intel Sells $147M Stake in Arm Amid Financial Struggles, Layoffs

Intel sold its 1.18 million shares in chip designer Arm as the company struggles to navigate financial struggles and layoffs. 

Intel’s latest 13F form, which companies use to report their securities holdings at the end of each quarter, shows it no longer holds any shares in the British semiconductor firm.

In the previous quarter, Intel held 1,176,470 shares of Arm Holdings valued at around $147 million.

The company has not publicly commented on the share sale and there has been no word on who bought the shares. Arm is still majority-owned by Japanese investment firm SoftBank.

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Google Unveils Gemini Live Voice Assistant to Rival ChatGPT Voice Mode

Google has unveiled Gemini Live, a conversational voice assistant set to rival OpenAI’s Voice Mode.

Available through the Gemini app on Android and iOS, the new Live feature allows users to interact with the AI using their voice.

Powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 Flash model, the Live feature can answer questions across a variety of generated voices, 10 in total. Users can ask the chatbot to manage their shopping lists or summarize incoming emails.

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Musk xAI Launches Grok-2, Mini Version with Improved Reasoning Skills

Elon Musk's xAI startup has unveiled Grok-2, the latest version of its language model, boasting significant improvements in reasoning abilities and academic comprehension while outperforming rival AI chatbots in benchmark tests.

Released in an early preview, Grok-2 offers “significant improvements” on the previous Grok-1.5, offering more intuitive and versatile outputs across a variety of tasks

The model’s reasoning abilities have been improved, with Grok-2 able to correctly identify missing information in a piece of content and reason through a sequence of events.

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Microsoft, Palantir Partner to Bring Secure AI to Defense Agencies

Microsoft is working with Palantir to provide cloud-based AI and analytics services to the U.S. defense and intelligence community.

The pair will offer a suite of technologies that combines foundation models through Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service with Palantir’s AI-powered security analytics tools.

The jointly developed suite is designed to let defense firms run workloads in the cloud while ensuring data remains classified and secure.

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