It's only been 24 hours since #OpenAI ... ah, just kidding. We won't go down that road. But you might have missed some of this news. 👇

1/ Alphabet's revenue grew 11% to $76.7 billion in the quarter, but Google Cloud Platform revenue was disappointing, growing only 22% to $8.4 billion.

1/ Microsoft reported a 13% increase in revenue to $56.5 billion in the third quarter, with Azure, its cloud computing offering, growing 29%.

1/ In a surprise move, the US government has imposed stricter export restrictions on AI chipsets, including Nvidia's A800 and H800, to China and Russia earlier than expected.

1/ Google plans to at least match OpenAI's GPT-4 with its Gemini multimodal AI model, which is scheduled for release later this year. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google is "getting the model ready."

GPT-4.5. 🥵

1/ #Midjourney generates $200 million in annual revenue without investors, showing that AI services can be profitable. The AI image service is offered through Discord. Packages range from $10 to $120 per month.

1/ Researchers at UC Berkeley used ChatGPT to generate large datasets to study metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) useful in the fight against climate change. According to the team, ChatGPT completed years of student work in a fraction of an hour.

1/ Steam rejects games with AI-generated content due to uncertainties regarding intellectual property rights.