Today: July 07, 2024
Today: July 07, 2024

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AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?

Post a comment on Reddit, answer coding questions on Stack Overflow or share a baby photo on your public Facebook or Instagram feed and you are also helping to train the next generation of artificial intelligence

AI is learning from what you said on Reddit, Stack Overflow or Facebook. Are you OK with that?
Business|Technology

US antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI

U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions

US antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI
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Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

A group of OpenAI’s current and former workers are calling on the ChatGPT-maker and other artificial intelligence companies to protect employees who flag safety risks about AI technology

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks
Business|Economy|Technology

Microsoft quarterly profit rises 20% as tech giant pushes to get customers using AI products

Microsoft has reported that its profit rose 20% for the January-March quarter as it tries to position itself as a leader in applying artificial intelligence technology to make workplaces more productive

Microsoft quarterly profit rises 20% as tech giant pushes to get customers using AI products
Business|Technology

Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says his goal is technology that's 'additive to humanity'

Aidan Gomez can take some credit for the ‘T’ at the end of ChatGPT

Tired of AI doomsday tropes, Cohere CEO says his goal is technology that's 'additive to humanity'
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Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics startup Figure

Humanoid robot-maker Figure partners with OpenAI and gets backing from Jeff Bezos and tech giants
Business|Technology

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for race

Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make sense

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for race
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'Please regulate AI:' Artists push for U.S. copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for immediate relief from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods

'Please regulate AI:' Artists push for U.S. copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast
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Microsoft spent two years trying to buy Activision Blizzard. For Xbox CEO, that was the easy part

After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video game history past an onslaught of challenges, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer now moves on to his next quest: making Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard worth the hassle

Microsoft spent two years trying to buy Activision Blizzard. For Xbox CEO, that was the easy part
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Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes

US Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke of New York sent a letter Thursday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and X CEO Linda Yaccarino expressing “serious concerns” about the emergence of AI-generated political ads on their platforms and asking each to explain any rules they’re crafting to curb the harms to free and fair elections

Meta and X questioned by lawmakers over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes
Business|Entertainment|Technology

Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it's also embracing the technology

Getty Images has a huge collection of stock photographs

Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it's also embracing the technology
Technology

Tech companies try to take AI image generators mainstream with better protections against misuse

Artificial intelligence tools that can conjure whimsical artwork or realistic-looking images from written commands started wowing crowds last year

Tech companies try to take AI image generators mainstream with better protections against misuse
Science|Technology

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online

AI 'gold rush' for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text
Science|Technology

Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information

Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral
Science|Technology

Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next

Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC
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Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone
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Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

Generative AI is advancing so quickly that the latest chatbots available today could be out of date tomorrow

Meta's newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users
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Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?

There’s a race underway to build artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines that are broadly as smart as humans or at least can do many things as well as people can

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?
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AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes

AT&T says it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online

AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets millions of passcodes
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VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights

U.S. federal agencies must show that their artificial intelligence tools aren’t harming the public, or stop using them, under new rules unveiled by the White House

VP Harris says US agencies must show their AI tools aren't harming people's safety or rights
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US lawmakers say TikTok won't be banned if finds a new owner. But that's easier said than done

U.S. lawmakers are threatening to ban TikTok but also say they are giving its Chinese parent company a chance to keep it running

US lawmakers say TikTok won't be banned if finds a new owner. But that's easier said than done
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Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company's board

A Microsoft engineer is sounding an alarm about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company’s artificial intelligence image-generator tool

Microsoft engineer sounds alarm on AI image-generator to US officials and company's board
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Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI's next wave

Making instant videos is the next wave of generative artificial intelligence, much like chatbots and image-generators before it

Do AI video-generators dream of San Pedro? Madonna among early adopters of AI's next wave
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White House wades into debate on 'open' versus 'closed' artificial intelligence systems

The Biden administration is wading into a contentious debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open-source” or closed

White House wades into debate on 'open' versus 'closed' artificial intelligence systems
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Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them

Video game studios pay professional actors to voice the soldiers, goblins, elves and aliens that populate virtual worlds

Some video game actors are letting AI clone their voices. They just don't want it to replace them

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