Rabbit AI assistant sells out, Tesla halts car production

  AI start-up Rabbit is having startling early success with its new Rabbit R1 AI hardware-based assistant. The device made a splash following its unveiling at CES earlier in the week and the initial batch of 10,000 units sold out on day one. The second batch of 10,000 units sold out almost immediately with the third…

OpenAI opens GPT store for customised chatbots, UK government plans porn review

  OpenAI on Wednesday launched its GPT Store, a marketplace where paid ChatGPT users can buy and sell specialized chatbot agents based on the company’s language models. The company, whose wildly popular product ChatGPT helped kickstart the boom in AI, already offers customized bots through its paid ChatGPT Plus service. The new store will allow users to…

CES 2024: Samsung AI fridge recommends recipes, Asus to launch smart glasses

The Consumer Electrics Show (CES) is one of the biggest tech events in the world and the 2024 event has certainly thrown up some interesting products and concepts already... Held in Las Vegas, the first CES happened in 1967, and over the years thousands of products have been unveiled at the show - including satellite…

VW to offer ChatGPT integration, LG announces transparent telly

  Cerence Chat Pro will be available in the new Golf At CES 2024, the world's leading electronics trade fair held in Las Vegas, Volkswagen will unveil its first vehicles with integrated ChatGPT. Soon customers will have seamless access to the constantly growing artificial intelligence database in all Volkswagen models equipped…

Young people turn to AI therapist bots, 1 in 5 new cars are electric

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin. These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on fictional or real people. It uses the same type of AI tech as the ChatGPT chatbot…

Hackers predict: The biggest cybersecurity worries in 2024

Hacking courses, leaked nudes and AI-led scams – these are the most discussed topics on the dark web forums... Every year around experts at NordVPN try to predict the cybersecurity risks awaiting us in the next year. This year they decided to take a different route and look into the biggest dark web forum to find…

Half of teens addicted to social media, clamp down on ‘tax-free’ side hustles

Almost half of British teenagers say they feel addicted to social media, according to findings that come amid mounting pressure for big tech companies to be held accountable for the impact of their platforms on users. The finding, from the Millennium Cohort study, adds to evidence that many people feel they have lost control over…

Tesla unveils new version of humanoid robot, E3 cancelled forever

Tesla has debuted a new version of its humanoid robot that can squat without falling over and pick up an egg without breaking it. Elon Musk’s electric car company has teased updates to the company’s Optimus automaton in a video posted on Twitter. In a demonstration video, Tesla’s robotics division showed off what it called…