This week's tech news was almost entirely devoured by a massive wave of coverage on the fast emerging changes promised by artificial intelligence. Sure, there were plenty of hot takes worth mulling in the op-ed sections of the big outlets. But amid the shifting discourse and avalanche of AI news, we can break it down to some key, must-know items: the most important is about the emerging marriage between Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Microsoft has dumped more than $100 million into OpenAI, a relationship that has privacy advocates and technologists concerned.
But before we sum up the existential dread-mill of AI news, can we just take a moment to appreciate how unbelievably cool it would be to have AI-powered robotic arms that can turn you into Dr. Otto Octavius from Spiderman?
