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The Morning After: White House proposes a 30 percent tax on electricity used for crypto mining | Engadget

[ad_1] The Biden administration wants to impose a 30 percent tax, called the Digital Asset Mining Energy or DAME excise tax, on the electricity used for cryptocurrency mining. It explained it wants to tax crypto-mining companies because they aren’t paying for the “full cost they impose on others,” including environmental pollution and high energy prices. …

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Slack is getting in on the GPT AI trend | Engadget

[ad_1] At its World Tour NYC event, Salesforce has introduced Slack GPT, which it describes as a three-pronged vision that integrates AI features into the business messaging app. Slack GPT is comprised of AI-powered features built natively into the app, a new AI-ready platform that was recently made available to developers, and the availability of …

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Biden Administration will invest $140 million to launch seven new National AI Research Institutes | Engadget

[ad_1] Ahead of a meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and the heads of America’s four leading AI tech companies — Alphabet, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft — the Biden Administration announced Thursday a sweeping series of planned actions to help mitigate some of the risks that these emerging technologies pose to the American public. That …

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Microsoft opens Bing AI for public testing, no waitlist required | Engadget

[ad_1] Bing AI is now open to all—sort of. Three months after debuting its revamped search engine, Microsoft has announced that it’s now moving into open preview. You’ll still need to sign into Bing on the Edge browser (or the Bing mobile apps) to use the chatbot, but at least you no longer have to …

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Microsoft Opens Up Bing AI Chat Preview to All, Adds Support for Third-Party Services

[ad_1] Microsoft is opening up its Bing AI search and chatbot service to more people. On Thursday, the tech giant said it’s doing away with the waitlist that had gated access to the OpenAI GPT-boosted search and also revealed third-party apps and services will be able to to build on top of its platform.  The …

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American University of Puerto Rico to close this year

[ad_1] The American University of Puerto Rico will end its operations at the end of this year, the institution announced on its website. A translation of the private, nonprofit institution’s Spanish-language notice said that its Board of Trustees had made the “difficult and painful decision to permanently suspend the operations” of the institution in December …

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