Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 12
AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims In Brief Plus: How much would you pay for ChatGPT? And British AI drug biz gets snapped up for half a billion AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 26
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT In brief Plus: Apple using fake AI voices to help indie publishers release audiobooks AI + ML09 Jan 2023 | 32
Apple taps brake on self-driving cars, now aims for 2026 In brief Plus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model AI + ML13 Dec 2022 | 26
OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego AI + ML03 Dec 2022 | 26
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 26
Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 3
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 39
Lab explores dystopian future of AI helping cops catch criminals In brief Plus: US AI Bill of Rights, and a new framework to run models on AMD and Nvidia GPUs more flexibly AI + ML08 Oct 2022 | 11
Draft EU AI Act regulations could have a chilling effect on open source software In brief Plus: New MLPerf inference results, and artists finds terrifying AI-generated face haunting images AI + ML11 Sep 2022 | 38
Record label drops AI rapper after backlash over stereotypes In brief Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more AI + ML28 Aug 2022 | 84
Microsoft reviews M365 resilience after Indian outage Asia In Brief Plus: Amazon and Alibaba risk Indonesia ban; Pegasus in Thailand; South Korea's semiconductor education surge; and more SaaS24 Jul 2022 | 2
I've been fired, says engineer who claimed Google chatbot was sentient In brief Plus: How writers are using AI tools to help them write fiction more quickly AI + ML23 Jul 2022 | 86
Cruise self-driving cars stopped and clogged up San Francisco for hours In brief Plus: Head of AI and Autopilot at Tesla quits, FIFA rolls out AI in this year's football World Cup, and more AI + ML18 Jul 2022 | 37
Alibaba execs hauled in to discuss Shanghai Police data leak Asia In Brief Plus: Weibo cracks down on political puns; Singaporean crypto biz Vauld restructures; Philippines fights Facebook rumors Security18 Jul 2022 | 2
People who regularly talk to AI chatbots often start to believe they're sentient, says CEO In brief Plus: Activists fight for EU ban on AI lie detectors, and is the age prediction tool used by Meta accurate? AI + ML04 Jul 2022 | 44
Meta slammed with eight lawsuits claiming social media hurts kids In brief Plus: Why safety data for self-driving technology is misleading, and more AI + ML12 Jun 2022 | 47
Costa Rican government held up by ransomware … again In brief Also US warns of voting machine flaws and Google pays out $100 million to Illinois Security06 Jun 2022 | 9
Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977 In brief Also: Uni details its malware-catching AI, signs of China poking the Russian cyber-bear, and more Patches29 May 2022 | 8
Deepfake attacks can easily trick live facial recognition systems online In brief Plus: Next PyTorch release will support Apple GPUs so devs can train neural networks on their own laptops AI + ML22 May 2022 | 25
US cops kick back against facial recognition bans In brief Plus: DeepMind launches new generalist AI system, and Apple boffin quits over return-to-work policy AI + ML16 May 2022 | 9
OpenAI's DALL·E 2 generates AI images that are sometimes biased or NSFW In brief Plus: SoundCloud acquires startup for better algorithmic curated playlists AI + ML08 May 2022 | 50
AI models to detect how you're feeling in sales calls In brief Plus: Driverless Cruise car gets pulled over by police, and more AI + ML18 Apr 2022 | 34
EU countries want to pool photos in massive facial recog database In brief Plus: Can algorithms tell us how we're feeling from the sound of our voices and more AI + ML11 Apr 2022 | 26
Ukraine uses Clearview AI to identify slain Russian soldiers In brief Plus: GPT-NeoX-20B, the largest open-source language model available yet, and a new AI Silicon Valley VC fund AI + ML28 Mar 2022 | 12
Tesla employee: I was fired after sharing video of self-driving car crash In brief Plus: FTC orders model destruction AI + ML21 Mar 2022 | 13
Clearview AI plans tech to ID faces as they age, seek big government deals In brief Plus: AI imparts brain surgery skills more effectively than human tutors AI + ML28 Feb 2022 | 2
Waymo sues California's DMV to block autonomous car crash data from publication In brief Plus: Non-profit suicide hotline criticised for sharing mental health crisis texts with AI startup, and more AI + ML31 Jan 2022 | 25
IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health In brief As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game AI + ML24 Jan 2022 | 10
Tesla Full Self-Driving videos prompt California's DMV to rethink policy on accidents In brief Plus: AI systems can identify different chess players by their moves and more AI + ML15 Jan 2022 | 104
Free AI protein software packages nearly predicted structure of the Omicron coronavirus variant correctly In brief Plus: IBM Watson Health reportedly up for sale over $1bn, and more AI + ML11 Jan 2022 | 16
Clearview's selfie-scraping AI facial recognition technology set to be patented Plus: DeepMind's latest language model research and more AI + ML11 Dec 2021 | 22
Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI In brief Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat lung disease reaches human clinical trials and more AI + ML04 Dec 2021 | 54
AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home In brief Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI AI + ML20 Nov 2021 | 24
Alphabet launches new AI drug discovery startup, Isomorphic Labs, led by DeepMind CEO In brief Plus: Waymo's self-driving cars are mapping the mean streets of NYC AI + ML08 Nov 2021 | 1
Twitter's algos favour tweets from conservatives over liberals because they generate more outrage online – study In brief Plus: Microsoft acquires an AI content moderation startup to prevent hate speech on the Xbox and more AI + ML30 Oct 2021 | 52
Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech In brief Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages AI + ML16 Oct 2021 | 26
Waymo, Cruise get green light from California's DMV for self-driving taxi services In brief Plus: Experts dubious of Apple's AI algorithm being able to detect depression and anxiety AI + ML03 Oct 2021 | 21
Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving In brief Plus: Why trans gamers are turning to deepfake voices, and more bits and bytes AI + ML27 Sep 2021 | 39
Facebook apologises after its AI system branded Black people as primates In Brief Plus: Google Health app for NHS hospitals discontinued, and Tesla under the spotlight AI + ML06 Sep 2021 | 40
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped In brief Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more AI + ML22 Aug 2021 | 126
OpenAI's GPT-3-based pair programming model – Codex – now open for private beta testers through an API In Brief Plus: Self-driving Humvees funded by US Army to the tune of millions AI + ML16 Aug 2021 | 4
AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn In brief Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools AI + ML08 Aug 2021 | 46
Wanna use your Nvidia GPU for acceleration but put off by CUDA? OpenAI has a Python-based alternative In brief Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial AI + ML02 Aug 2021 | 8
20,000 proteins expressed by human genome predicted by DeepMind's AlphaFold now available to download In brief Plus: Facial-recognition upstart Clearview raises $30m AI + ML26 Jul 2021 | 4
OpenAI shuts down robotics team because it doesn't have enough data yet In brief Plus: People creeped out that TV chef Bourdain's voice has been faked AI + ML18 Jul 2021 | 10
Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform In brief Plus: Biden sets up AI task force, and Waymo expands autonomous trucking operation with new partnership AI + ML14 Jun 2021 | 2
Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software In brief Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists AI + ML24 May 2021 | 4
This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla In Brief Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google AI + ML16 May 2021 | 28
US postal service goes all in on AI In Brief Plus: Google boffin who resigned over AI ethics controversy, joins Apple AI + ML10 May 2021 | 6
Google's AI ethics firings garner more trouble – $60,000 Chocolate Factory boffin grant turned down over issue In Brief Plus: Amazon delivery drivers forced to consent to being surveilled by AI AI + ML29 Mar 2021 | 6
Google's ex-boss tells the US it's time to take the gloves off on autonomous weapons In brief Plus: AI Index 2021 report takeaways, Chocolate Factory banished from top ethics conference, and more AI + ML08 Mar 2021 | 40
Google seeks to placate AI researchers complaining of Big Brother-like working conditions In Brief Plus: Deepfake Tom Cruise has arrived on TikTok, and new ML algo that beats humans at classic Atari games AI + ML01 Mar 2021 | 15
I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted In brief Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more AI + ML22 Feb 2021 | 30
Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images Plus: Check if your Flickr photos are in facial recognition engines and and the list of NSFW words for AI AI + ML08 Feb 2021 | 32
Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague In Brief Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars AI + ML25 Jan 2021 | 51
US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends In brief Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature AI + ML18 Jan 2021 | 30
Facial recog biz denies its software identified 'antifa members' among mob that stormed Capitol Hill In brief Plus: US ban on selling AI code to China renewed for 2021, and Jim Keller hired by Canadian AI chip startup AI + ML11 Jan 2021 | 61
Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt In brief Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher AI + ML12 Dec 2020 | 14
Surprise, surprise: AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives In brief Plus: US President signs a new executive order on AI and how JAX is becoming more popular at DeepMind AI + ML07 Dec 2020 | 38
Pretty fly for a SharkEye: Salesforce sponsors AI drones to spot sharks before they attack California swimmers Plus: A new web app from Google to generate AI monsters AI + ML23 Nov 2020 | 11