On this week’s episode of Free Lunch by The Peak, we sat down with Chris Walker, the CEO of Canadian AI chip maker, Untether AI, to talk about the future of the industry.   

Buckle up, folks; we’re going through the ins and outs of the U.S. government vs. TikTok. 

What happened: A U.S. House of Representatives committee voted unanimously to advance a proposed bill forcing TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell its ownership stake in the app within 165 days, lest the app be banned in the country entirely.

Prompt engineering might not be the path to AI riches it has been made out to be.

How can I get my idea turned into an emoji?

You’ll need to submit it to the Unicode Consortium, which begins accepting proposals again on April 2.

It turns out that a sci-fi-looking orb that scans and stores your biological data might raise some questions from privacy regulators.

The next big business opportunity in AI might be websites selling their users’ posts. 

Like a jaded and world-weary beat reporter who’s seen too much, Meta wants out of the news game.

What happened: Meta announced that it wouldn’t sign any more deals with news publishers in the U.S., Australia, U.K., France, and Germany. 

From the creators of Musk vs. Zuckerberg, Musk vs. Advertisers, and Musk vs. Delaware comes the most thrilling instalment yet… Musk vs. OpenAI. 

What happened: Musk is suing the AI industry’s leading company, OpenAI, which he helped co-found in 2015, and its CEO, Sam Altman. He alleges that the company has betrayed its founding agreement to create AI for the benefit of humanity by inking its deal with Microsoft.  

What is a diffusion transformer?

It’s actually a combination of two concepts — diffusion and transformers — that make better-performing AI image and video generators.

Be less worried about your smart toothbrush’s security and take a look at the office WiFi router instead.