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Oct. 21 (UPI) — OpenAI unveiled the early version of its AI-powered ChatGPT Atlas web browser on Tuesday, offering many powerful features that seek to interlace the company’s technology into daily internet use.

The new browser is currently only available on macOS, with future versions coming to Windows and mobile devices, according to a post by OpenAI. While other tech companies, including Microsoft and Google, have incorporated AI into their products, OpenAI called Atlas a step closer “to a true super-assistant” that follows users across the web.

“It’s a new kind of browser for the next era of the web,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a video, where staff demonstrated how Atlas could be used to complete a grocery order, help project management at work and other tasks.

Atlas will draw on user’s previous interactions with the powerful chat bot, meaning it will have a back-and-forth deeper than Google’s box of AI-generated results that accompanies web searches.

If Atlas is popular, it could be “a serious threat to Google’s dominance,” according to TechCrunch. It could also provide valuable information to targeted advertising should OpenAI change its business model. But the tech website concluded that “It’s still early days for Atlas and a lot will depend on the product itself — and whether users really want what OpenAI is offering here.”

Users of the paid version of ChatGPT can use “agent” mode that allows Atlas to perform some tasks independently.

“Despite all of the power and awesome capabilities that you get with sharing your browser with ChatGPT that also poses an entirely new set of risks,” OpenAI’s Pranav Vishnu said during the video announcing Atlas. He said that there are safeguards that keep the agent operating on Atlas tabs and prevents it from accessing users’ computer files.

Marketing experts have warned that AI could soon be used to make purchases for consumers using their data. Users of Atlas can limit what data is saved, according to an OpenAI page explaining user controls.

Artificial intelligence and its invasiveness in our everyday lives might be endlessly discussed among academics, government officials and social media provocateurs, but Los Angeles Comic Con has injected a dose of gamma radiation and showmanship into that debate.

Stan Lee has entered the chat.

L.A. Comic Con is introducing its Stan Lee Experience, a 1,500-square-foot booth in Aisle 200 that features an AI-powered holographic image of the late comic book legend that interacts with attendees. Curious fans can ask questions of “Stan Lee” and probe dozens of years’ worth of comic book and comic book-related data that’s been fed into the AI, which has been drawn from footage, conversations and even Stan Lee’s Soapbox — where Lee would expand on happenings of the day or riff on comic book goings-on in the back pages of Marvel comics from 1967 through 1980.

Chris DeMoulin, chief executive and general manager of L.A. Comic Con parent Comikaze Entertainment Inc., says the Stan Lee AI project took months of planning and years of being connected to the parties involved.

“For me, personally, one of the most thrilling things of my entire life was getting to work with Stan Lee when this was Stan Lee’s Comic Con and Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo before that. What was such a joy was watching him interact with fans. Old fans and then people that were bringing their 8-year-old kid who had just read their first Spider-Man comic book,” said DeMoulin, who has collected comics from an early age.

“This avatar, to us, is an entry point into the world of storytelling that he created. We wanted to create something which can be part of maintaining and expanding on that legacy so that Stan’s role in creating a lot of this is acknowledged.”

The hologram, at least the one on the show floor, is not really a hologram. With a box built by Proto Inc., the company that also launched an interactive mirror from “The Conjuring,” and Hyperreal, a company whose chief executive Remington Scott helped bring Gollum and Smeagol to life for Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” movies and creates realistic avatars, it is an interactive Stan Lee image that processes questions and formulates responses.

“Hologram is a technology that’s different than this. This is more of an avatar presence, or a telepresence, if you will. Unlike ChatGPT, this is not a web crawler. This is a large language model which has got guardrails on it,” says George Johnson, a member of the Hyperreal technical team.

“It’s specifically Stan’s words. Red carpet interviews, everything he wrote, like Stan’s Soapbox, but with guardrails. Meaning, if you ask him sports questions or politics questions, he’s not going to answer those. But the Stan Lee Universe is feeding us more and more stuff that we can add to the model.”

David Nussbaum, Proto Inc. founder and chairman, knows that Stan Lee is only the first step for this technology.

“Any Proto device can have any piece of content in it, and we also beam people in live. So if you’re interviewing someone in Japan, you could beam there and appear like you are physically among them,” Nussbaum said. “These are great for classrooms, museums, labs, retail.”

Proto technology is also HIPAA-compliant, he said, meaning doctors and patients can use it to have “in-person” consultations without being in a room together.

As it learns, it can — as AI does — go a bit off script. While folks behind the scenes said they didn’t want Stan Lee to be used as an advertising gimmick, its makers had asked it so many questions about Coca-Cola, it had changed its answer from a generic “I don’t deal with that kind of thing” to a thoughtful answer where, at the end, Lee says, “Who wouldn’t want to be in business with the company that been quenching thirsts for a hundred years?”

That was Stan — ever the showman.

The Stan Lee Experience costs $15 plus service fees with tickets available for purchase via the L.A. Comic Con website. The pop culture gathering runs through Sunday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

July 9 (UPI) — San Francisco-based Perplexity on Wednesday made its new artificial intelligence-powered Comet web browser available to its highest-paying Perplexity Max subscribers and a few others.

Perplexity officials call the browser a “direct line to the world’s knowledge” on any topic and in any language.

“We built Comet to let the Internet do what it has been begging to do — to amplify our intelligence,” Perplexity officials said in an unattributed blog post on Wednesday, as reported by CNBC.

“We will continue to launch new features and functionality for Comet, improve experiences based on your feedback and focus relentlessly … on building accurate and trustworthy AI that fuels human curiosity,” Perplexity said.

The browser’s AI-powered search engine is already installed and set as the default search engine that places the AI-generated search result summaries “front and center,” TechCrunch reported.

Search results are “compressed, cited and made clear” to make them understandable, while ensuring the originating sources are credited with providing the information, according to Perplexity.

The Comet browser’s rollout will continue through the summer months and includes a select group of invited users who joined a waitlist to receive it in addition to the Perplexity Max subscribers.

The AI-powered browser’s launch comes as Gallup says AI use for work purposes nearly doubled over the past two years.

Some 40% of workers who were recently surveyed by Gallup said they occasionally use AI while at work, which is up from 21% two years ago.

Those who frequently use AI rose from 11% to 19% since Gallup began tracking AI use among workers in 2023.

Those who use AI daily also doubled, from 4% to 8% over the same period.

There are less than two days until MIND of Pepe ($MIND) closes its viral presale campaign, which has raised over $11 million to date.

Investors are on the edges of their seats as prominent industry pundits speculate on how far this project could go once it hits exchanges. We’ve seen numerous exciting forecasts, with some well-known analysts targeting between 50x and 100x gains.

MIND of Pepe is building an AI agent ecosystem, which might just be the most crucial tool in the arsenal of retail trades. The cryptocurrency market is evolving rapidly; crypto whales have access to a range of sophisticated trading tools; and there are too many emerging cryptos for any individual investor to keep tabs manually.

The MIND of Pepe agent scans the market 24/7 to spot the hottest and most promising crypto trading opportunities. This juncture levels the playing field between everyday traders and high-net-worth whales.

Its presale will end on 3 June at 2 PM UTC. This is the last opportunity for investors to buy $MIND at $0.0037515. Once the presale ends, $MIND will list on exchanges, and it’s at that point we could see its price begin to soar.

MIND of Pepe’s trading terminal, token launchpad could print the next 100x

Imagine there was a team of analysts and traders working around the clock to pump your bags. That’s what MIND of Pepe offers, except it will be an AI agent, not humans.

The project is preparing to launch an agent that monitors blockchain and social media data to identify trends and patterns, which it will consolidate into actionable insights and share with its community.

The core of the operation is the data insights terminal. This is where $MIND holders will receive access to trading signals, deep technical analysis, risk-to-reward ratio analysis, and curated X posts.

Essentially, it’s a dashboard that serves AI-driven, real-time market intelligence directly to $MIND holders’ devices.

As the crypto industry evolves, it’s becoming too vast for any individual to keep track of it all. AI agents that monitor and consolidate data solve this problem. By using MIND of Pepe, investors have the potential to capture lucrative trading opportunities that they may have otherwise missed.

But there’s more. The agent also has its own crypto wallet where it can interact with dApps and even launch tokens. The latter point may be the most crucial.

It will use the data it collects to identify market gaps and then create tokens to fill them. $MIND holders will get first access, then the agent will promote the launch using its X account.

While the agent’s token deployment capabilities have yet to be tested in the real world, we can use other AI-created cryptos as an anchor. One of the most well-known is Fartcoin, which peaked at over $2 billion. Another is Goatseus Maximus, which reached a $1 billion market cap.

Evidently, AI agents are fully capable of deploying resonant and viral meme coins, so there’s every chance that MIND of Pepe creates the next one.

And remember, $MIND holders will get insider access to the token launches. So suppose that the agent creates the next $1 billion meme coin; $MIND holders could well get in when the valuation is below $10 million, providing an opportunity for 100x gains.

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Secure $MIND at $0.0037515 before presale ends

Expectations are high on how much gains the $MIND presale could provide, but time is running out to buy at a fixed and discounted presale price.

Right now, the market is shaping up for explosive growth. Bitcoin holds steady above $100K, while Ethereum and the broader altcoin market are gaining. Top analysts say this marks the beginning of an altcoin season.

And if it is, then the timing couldn’t be better for $MIND to emerge on the open market.

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This article is for informational purposes only and does not provide financial advice. Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile, and the market can be unpredictable. Always perform thorough research before making any cryptocurrency-related decisions.

A LITTLE-known car brand is preparing to launch an AI-powered luxury saloon to rival the mighty Porsche Taycan.

Chinese EV manufacturer Xpeng has unveiled the latest iteration of its P7 sports saloon that they’ve branded “more than a car”.

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Said to be Xpeng’s answer to “the AI [artificial intelligence] era in form and function”, the company has identified itself as an “AI-driven mobility company”.

Indeed, they’re positioning the new flagship P7 as a showcase for how AI can redefine the luxury car experience.

Details at this stage are scarce, but the previous P7 was described as “the world’s first AI-defined vehicle” and included highly advanced autonomous driving functions, as well as a ‘smart cockpit’ that included a Knight Rider-style voice assistant.

The next-gen model is expected to build on this, as well as introduce even more advanced capabilities.

Their ultimate aim is to stand out in China‘s increasingly crowded luxury saloon market – with the likes of the Avatr 12, Nio ET9 and Luxeed S7 all hoping to be big sellers.

Regarding the upcoming P7’s new styling, Xpeng’s Exterior Design Director Rafik Ferrag told Autocar: “With this new generation, we set out to design a pure-electric sports sedan that could amaze at every angle.

“This car is our dream – refined through countless iterations.

“In my eyes, the all-new Xpeng P7 is a work of art, shaped with emotion and purpose.”

It’s currently unknown if the P7 will be sold outside of China – with more details to follow.

For now, the Porsche Taycan remains the industry leader when it comes to luxury, performance all-electric saloons.

While sales have dipped in recent times, the Taycan remains a highly sought-after electric sports car ahead of the likes of the Lucid Air, Tesla Model S, BMW i4, and Audi e-tron GT.

One other Chinese brand that’s got Porsche in its sights is Denza – headed by motoring giant BYD.

The ever-expanding car brand is one of the largest private companies in China and has already started to make waves globally – including in the UK.

But for those seeking something with more speed and luxury, their sister brand Denza and their first car in its line-up – the stunning Z9 GT – might appeal.

Clearly borrowing design cues from the Taycan and Panamera, the grand tourer – with its shooting brake estate styling – was unveiled at the recent Milan Design Week ahead of its European market release later this year.