Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits
Final update Chief gets upgraded to customer – LLMs may be coming for your job but the board came for his
AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 72
Katyanna was a reporter for The Register, primarily covering artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). She also reported on developments in space technology and scientific breakthroughs. Her academic background is in astrophysics and science communication.
UK won't rush to regulate AI, says first-ever minister for digital brainboxes
One does not wish to slow innovation, Viscount Jonathan Camrose opines
Public Sector17 Nov 2023 | 31
Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen
Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it
AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22
AI copyright row deepens: Stability VP quits in protest over 'fair use' excuse
Refuses to sing from the corporate songbook on the legal grounds for training neural nets on people's work
AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 24
Cruise parks entire US fleet over safety fears
Roadblocks ahead as external watchdog hired for full audit of self-driving biz
Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 15
Google DeepMind's GraphCast AI weather predictor looks fascinating on paper but ...
... Even its creators say it ain't 'a replacement for traditional forecasting methods'
AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 14
YouTubers kindly asked to mark their deepfake vids as Fake Fakey McFake Fakes
Fess up before Google's robo-cops possibly finger your synthetic drivel
AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 18
Google sues scammers peddling fake malware-riddled Bard chatbot download
Updated Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns
Cyber-crime14 Nov 2023 | 13
Strike over? US actors may return to work with top-tier 'progressive AI protections'
Producers will need OK from performers, will pay them to create digi-personas
AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 3
Google Photos' AI Magic Editor won't change pictures of IDs, receipts, faces, or bodies
AI in brief Plus: Amazon is reportedly training a two-trillion-parameter LLM, and more
AI + ML13 Nov 2023 | 13
US Air Force wants to see some atomic motors for future spacecraft
Take this $34M, Lockheed Martin, and give us an uranium fission engine for electricity, heat, propulsion
Public Sector10 Nov 2023 | 72
NASA's Lucy probe scores a threefer as it flies by first target in 12-year mission
Scientists shocked to find Dinkinesh is orbited by two touching asteroids
Science10 Nov 2023 | 10
DDoS-like attack brought down OpenAI this week, not just its purported popularity
Plus: Lab launches dataset sharing initiative for its own benefit
AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 2
FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse
Sir, this is a Wendy's
AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22
Adobe sells fake AI-generated Israel-Hamas war images – then the news ran them as real
The world needs a timeout moment
AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 27
Euclid space 'scope's first color snaps pull back the curtain on cosmic mysteries
Pics After a rocky start, here's looking at Euclid
Science08 Nov 2023 | 13
US actors are still on strike – and yup, it's about those looming AI clones
Updated How about you pay us every time our likeness is used by algorithms to make studio execs richer?
AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 38
WhatsApp AI happily added guns to chat stickers of Palestinians, but not Israelis
As Meta promises to stop political advertisers from using its generative ML tools
AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 57
You're next, game devs. Now Microsoft to bring character, story design copilot to Xbox
Video Plus: Doritos 'trials AI software' to mute noise of chip-crunching gamers
AI + ML06 Nov 2023 | 9
Musk thinks X marks the spot for Grok AI engine based on social network
AI In Brief Plus: AI companies enter non-binding agreement to governmental safety tests of models, and more
AI + ML06 Nov 2023 | 44
Brits make Amazon, Meta stop using third-party data to undercut rivals
Watchdog on a tear to level the playing field
Personal Tech04 Nov 2023 | 40
Uber, Lyft to hand back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers
So much for appy cabbies being 'partners' - Big U kept fares low by making 'em pay fees that riders should have picked up
Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 13
Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad
Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network
AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 36
Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case
24 million more angry iPhone users get their turn to give iGiant a kicking
Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 47
Alien rock remains found not on but deep inside the Earth
Scientists offer explanation for origin of two anomalous structures nestled within our world
Science02 Nov 2023 | 21
As NASA struggles to open OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample can, probe heads off to next rock
Screw it... no wait, unscrew it, cry boffins
Science01 Nov 2023 | 18
Judge bins AI copyright lawsuit against DeviantArt, Midjourney – Stability still in the mix
Artists' lawyers vow to fight on
AI + ML31 Oct 2023 | 20
To prevent 'lost' nukes, scientists suggest storing them in a hall of mirrors
Radio bouncing off multiple reflectors is a hard-to-defeat method of monitoring a weapons cache
Science31 Oct 2023 | 22
Yeah, that oughta do the trick, Joe... Biden hopes to tackle AI safety with exec order
ML players must alert Uncle Sam if they're training a foundation model, and more
AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 10
Developers build AI to read ancient scroll burnt in Mount Vesuvius eruption
AI in brief Plus: US Space Force halts use of ChatGPT and more
AI + ML16 Oct 2023 | 9
How 'AI watermarking' system pushed by Microsoft and Adobe will and won't work
Check for 'cr' bubble in pictures if your app supports it, or look in the metadata if it hasn't been stripped, or...
AI + ML15 Oct 2023 | 38
NASA reschedules Boeing's first crewed Starliner flight for mid-April 2024
Given they're still trying to fix the capsule's parachute the astronauts better say their prayers
Science13 Oct 2023 | 21
Google offers some copyright indemnity to users of its generative AI services
'If you are challenged, we will assume responsibility'
AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 8
Bennu unboxing shows ancient asteroid holds carbon and water
Just some building blocks for life – in a few billion years, who knows what could develop?
Science12 Oct 2023 | 14
Software patch fixes Euclid space telescope navigation bug
Probe goes loopy after mistaking solar rays for stars
Software11 Oct 2023 | 8
Meta watchdog sticks a probe into Facebook rules after fake Biden vid allowed to stay
Doctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn't a deepfake ... so that's OK, then?
AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 7
UK data watchdog warns Snap over My AI chatbot privacy issues
AI in brief Plus: 4channers are making troll memes with Bing AI, and more
AI + ML09 Oct 2023 | 6
AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen
21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot
AI + ML06 Oct 2023 | 110
ESA funds space weather satellite swarm to understand and combat orbital debris
Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable
Science06 Oct 2023 | 12
Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for 'double standard' on AI use
Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true?
AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 15
NASA taking its time unboxing asteroid sample because it grabbed too much stuff
Dirty deed, done in deep space
Science05 Oct 2023 | 17
Microsoft rolls OpenAI's text-to-pic DALL-E 3 into Bing
AI-made images invisibly watermarked – as academics warn that kind of measure is pointless
AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 2
Astronomers debate whether or not lightning strikes even once on Venus
Where are the bolts of light? Why are the low-frequency radio waves lightning makes going backwards?
Science04 Oct 2023 | 9
Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her
Victim in critical condition
AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 123
Apple blames iOS 17 bug for overheating iPhone 15 woes
Updated Fixes about to flow, perhaps along with an iSearch engine
Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 43
Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him
Updated I'm not a smart man, but I know it should be cast away
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 27
OpenAI warns folks over GPT-4 Vision's limits and flaws
AI In Brief Plus: Mistral emits uncensored model, Meta expands Llama 2's context window, Alexa drills into your voice
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 5
NASA delays already-late $1B Psyche probe's visit to metal-rich asteroid
Given it was first due to blast off last year, what's another week or so?
Science30 Sep 2023 | 11
Medium asks AI bot crawlers: Please, please don't scrape bloggers' musings
OpenAI and Google might respect robots.txt but how about the others?
AI + ML29 Sep 2023 | 7
OpenAI in talks with Jony Apple Ive and Softbank over iPhone-but-for-AI monster
So, a portable Alexa or Google Home-esque gadget?
AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 3
Record-breaking astronaut Frank Rubio finally home after over a year in orbit
Rubio spent 371 days on the ISS, the longest any American has been aloft
Science28 Sep 2023 | 3
Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author
The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm
AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 17
Researchers train an AI system to find extraterrestrial life
Machine learning model touted as ideal for finding LGMs on Mars, and beyond
Science27 Sep 2023 | 26
OpenAI could be valued up to $90 billion if deal to sell employee shares closes
ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 6
Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid
Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
ChatGPT will soon accept speech and images in its prompts, and be able to talk back to you
Update Yakety Yak - AI talks back
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 5
OpenAI's DALL·E 3 teams up with ChatGPT to turn brainfarts into art
AI in brief Plus: Microsoft GitHub release Copilot Chat to all developers on VS Code, and more
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 8
Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students
By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway
AI + ML23 Sep 2023 | 31
If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea
DataGrail Summit Alex Stamos: 'We don't really know what's gonna go wrong with AI yet'
AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 33
Amazon 'protects' against junk AI e-books by limiting author-bots to three a day
Somehow still 'committed to providing the best possible reading and publishing experience'
AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 30
Biting the hand that feeds IT
