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Story by Kate Park, Kyle Wiggers, Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to ...

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Move over ChatGPT, Apple has a new AI friend to play with. Along with Apple recently revealing that Siri will be powered by Google Gemini, Bloomberg now reports that the company has plans to turn its ...