Recently, a new study has shown that engaging in less than 10 minutes of conversation with a chatbot can effectively reduce people's beliefs in certain deeply held conspiracy theories, such as rumors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was led by a team from MIT, where the researchers specifically designed a highly persuasive AI model—ChatGPT—to individually refute the conspiracy claims of participants through personalized dialogue. In this experiment, the researchers recruited over 2,000 individuals who self-identified as conspiracy believers.

Goldman Sachs mistakenly attributed the decline in OpenAI's ChatGPT traffic to data analysis errors, failing to notice that domain changes distorted traffic statistics, which raised concerns in the market about the outlook for AI stocks. In reality, Similarweb data shows that the number of ChatGPT users has increased by 66.2% over the past year, making it the most popular generative AI application. OpenAI announced that its weekly active users have reached 200 million, doubling from 2022, with rapid growth in enterprise business and a continuous rise in API usage demand.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have developed an AI model named CHIEF, which is capable of handling various cancer diagnostic processes, providing more accurate diagnoses and assessments of different cancers, predicting patient survival rates, and offering treatment recommendations. Compared to existing AI systems, CHIEF represents a significant breakthrough in flexibility and multifunctionality, being able to perform multiple tasks and tested on 19 types of cancer. By analyzing large amounts of image data, including unmarked images and complete slice images, CHIEF excels in cancer detection and tumor origin identification.

OpenAI's paid business segment has reached a significant milestone, with the number of paid commercial users for its ChatGPT Enterprise, Team, and Edu products surpassing one million, marking a substantial increase since April. This reflects strong market demand for generative AI technology. Survey data indicates that enterprise users have achieved notable improvements in productivity, time savings, and innovation, particularly in areas such as research gathering, content drafting and editing, and creative brainstorming. Additionally, user growth has been particularly rapid in international markets such as Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

In an interview with The Verge, Bill Gates expressed an optimistic attitude towards artificial intelligence (AI), believing that AI applications in health and education will have positive implications in the short term, particularly providing personalized tutoring to enhance student motivation. He emphasized that AI technology is beneficial to society as a whole, but also warned of potential misuse risks and called for proper guidance. Regarding climate change, Gates supports nuclear energy as a solution, highlighting the importance of finding clean energy. On the potential threats of AI, he pointed out that some criminals might misuse it.

ChatGPT 5 is the latest version of ChatGPT, based on the GPT-5 AI model, aimed at improving the capabilities of GPT-4 by providing more personalized and accurate responses to enhance human-computer interaction and handle a wider range of content, possibly including video. It is expected to be released in Fall 2024. New features may include autonomous AI agents that perform tasks without human supervision, multimodal capabilities to process text, image, and video inputs, and improved speech generation technology. The increase in training data aims to enhance the model's performance in specialized fields and complex scenarios.

Researchers at Binghamton University in New York, led by Ahmed Abdeen Hammed, have developed a machine learning algorithm called xFakeSci that can identify fabricated academic papers with up to 94% accuracy. Hammed and his team created 50 fake papers on topics including Alzheimer's disease, cancer, and depression, and conducted comparative analyses with genuine papers. They found that the number of bigrams in the fake papers was significantly lower than in the real papers, and the relevance of the content was much stronger. Hammed plans to expand the algorithm to more fields in response to A

Volkswagen announced that its voice assistant 'Plus Speech', developed in collaboration with Cerence, will officially launch in the United States this week, integrated into the 2025 Jetta, Jetta GTI, and ID.4 (82kWh battery) models. This feature can execute in-car commands, answer questions unrelated to driving, and provide more natural and fluent responses using various data sources, including ChatGPT, via the internet. The 'IDA' feature allows drivers and passengers to express their needs by saying 'Hi IDA'.

Apple is expected to roll out several promised features in the iOS 18.2 update, making it one of the significant updates in 2024. This includes the integration of ChatGPT technology with Siri, the Genmoji emoji generator, a redesign of the Mail app, and comprehensive support for robotic vacuum cleaners. CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the ChatGPT feature will be launched before the end of the year, demonstrating Apple's focus on AI technology. Although the Genmoji feature has not been officially released, elements from the beta version suggest that it is about to go live. The redesigned Mail app will feature a new layout and improved efficiency.

The global AI application market experienced explosive growth in 2024, with total revenue expected to reach $3.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 51%. North America contributed the most, accounting for 47% of global revenue. India became the largest market in terms of downloads, capturing 21%. ChatGPT emerged as the market leader, with over 160 million downloads from January to August and revenue nearing $230 million, alongside more than 190 million monthly active users. AI+Chatbot applications surpassed 630 million downloads, with revenue approaching $580 million, reflecting a 1.5% growth compared to 2023.

The Oklahoma City Police Department is experimenting with the AI chatbot 'Draft One' to generate reports in order to save time. Developed by Axon, the system utilizes ChatGPT technology to quickly produce reports from audio recordings. Supporters believe this could significantly improve efficiency, but critics are concerned about potential errors, biases, and the risks of power abuse that automation could bring. Activist Aurelius Francisco expresses discomfort with the use of AI and tasers from the same company, fearing potential misuse.

Harvard University is undergoing an AI revolution, with AI permeating every aspect of learning, research, and daily life, from students to professors. 87.5% of surveyed Harvard students use generative AI, with ChatGPT being particularly popular, as students utilize AI to assist in studying, including answering questions, writing papers, programming, and even reducing interaction time with teachers. However, the proliferation of AI has also raised concerns about fairness, career prospects, and the future status of humanity. In response to these challenges, Harvard is taking measures such as providing free access to AI, establishing usage guidelines, and offering courses.

The third edition report of 'Top 100 Consumer Generative AI Applications' released by Andreessen Horowitz reveals popular AI applications and their usage trends. The report shows that content generation tools, particularly in image, video, and music, dominate web applications, with 52% of web products focusing on this area. The music generation tool Suno has notably improved its ranking. In the mobile application sector, image and video editing tools are favored by users, and ChatGPT remains...

Anthropic's artificial intelligence app Claude has surpassed $1 million in mobile revenue in just 16 weeks, with U.S. users contributing nearly half of the revenue. Despite lagging behind ChatGPT in download numbers, Claude reached the million-dollar revenue milestone at a rapid pace. Market distribution shows that U.S. users contribute the most, facing competition from the upcoming Apple Intelligence and Siri users who will have direct access to ChatGPT.

OpenAI's latest release of the ChatGPT voice feature based on the GPT-4 model aims to enhance the naturalness and immediacy of human-AI communication. However, this innovation has raised concerns about emotional dependence among users, with some forming emotional attachments to the AI and expressing reluctance to part with it, potentially affecting their social behaviors and interactions with real humans. Research indicates that prolonged AI voice interactions may alter users' social norms, such as the AI's ability to interrupt at any time, which is uncommon in human interactions.

The release of ChatGPT's new version, GPT-4o, has sparked active promotions from the official side, but user reactions have been lukewarm. Many users are confused about the differences between the new and old versions, with some even questioning whether its performance surpasses that of competitors. The official clarification states that GPT-4o is different from previous versions and is available for free users to experience, although challenges remain with answering questions in Chinese. The new model's style is similar to Claude, enhancing protective measures that are not insurmountable. Entrepreneurs have noticed that its response style resembles certain AI writing platforms, raising questions about OpenAI's direction.

In the digital age, online dating is rife with false information, particularly regarding height. The findings of Justine Moore, a partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm a16z, have sparked widespread discussion. ChatGPT-4o has become a powerful tool for revealing height lies in online dating. By simply uploading four photos, the AI can analyze the proportions of individuals relative to their surroundings and provide accurate height estimates with an error margin of no more than 1 inch. Although this technological application addresses the challenges of height verification, it raises discussions about privacy, ethics, and trust crises. At the same time, it highlights the role of AI in image recognition and analysis.

Etched's Sohu chip claims to be 20 times faster than the Nvidia H100 chip when running AI models, specifically designed to optimize transformer AI model processing and does not support other AI models. This specialization allows Sohu to exhibit extremely high computational power for tasks like ChatGPT. The launch of Sohu could lead to a revolution in the AI hardware market, especially in multimodal processing and real-time translation applications. Etched has successfully raised $120 million and partnered with TSMC for the production of 4nm chips.