Roundup

Don't be fooled: Google faked its Gemini AI voice demo

AI In brief PLUS: The AI companies that will use AMD's latest GPUs, and more

AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 9

Microsoft dials back Bing after users manage to recreate Disney logo in fake AI-generated images

AI In Brief Plus: Amazon lays off hundreds of employees working on Alexa, and more

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 38

Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo sign up for $42 billion scheme to make kit in India

ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Tata orders staff to move cities; Singapore okays stablecoins; Australia trials CoPilot; and more

Systems20 Nov 2023 | 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision

AI in brief PLUS: Coca-Cola's AI-designed drink to debut; chip startups struggle to compete with Nvidia as funding flees

AI + ML18 Sep 2023 | 22

IRS using AI to catch rich people and tax-dodging corps

AI in brief Plus: Google CEO says AI will be biggest tech shift in our lives, new official AI words on Dictionary.com

AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 12

X may train its AI models on your social media posts

AI In brief Plus: AI luminary Douglas Lenat passed away, and US newspaper chain halts publishing of AI-generated articles

AI + ML04 Sep 2023 | 20

Brain-computer interface and AI helps stroke victim speak through avatar

AI in brief ALSO: News publishers block OpenAI's text-crawling bot; YouTube does a deal for AI tunes

AI + ML28 Aug 2023 | 9

OpenAI snaps up role-playing game dev as first acquisition

AI in brief Plus: Bing AI hasn't helped Microsoft eat into Google Search, and more

AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 14

Author discovers fake, likely AI-generated books written under her name

AI in brief Plus: Tome bans decided by ChatGPT, watch out who's listening to your keyboard hammering, and more

AI + ML15 Aug 2023 | 13

Do Facebook's algorithms drive political polarization? Meta says no, but researchers say it's complicated

AI in brief Plus: Google DeepMind's latest visual-language model robot, and more

AI + ML31 Jul 2023 | 4

Google fails to get AI engineer lawsuit claiming wrongful termination thrown out

AI in brief Plus: Apple is building its own large language models internally, and AI South Park is terrible

AI + ML24 Jul 2023 | 18

If you're going to train AI on our books, at least pay us, authors tell Big Tech

AI in brief Also: OpenAI enters deals with the Associated Press and Shutterstock to license content, and more

AI + ML18 Jul 2023 | 19

India Big four outsourcers all have people problems

APAC in brief Also: China taikonaut moon plans; Singapore's Temasek to stay clear of crypto; India ponders ban on for-profit .IN sales; and more.

Systems17 Jul 2023 | 7

Sarah Silverman, novelists sue OpenAI for scraping their books to train ChatGPT

AI in brief Plus: Adobe is limiting how staff can use external generative AI tools, and the Pentagon is testing different large language models

AI + ML10 Jul 2023 | 82

No, GPT-4 cannot get a computer science degree at MIT

AI in brief Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market

AI + ML03 Jul 2023 | 8

Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard

AI in brief PLUS: Nuance voice AI startup hit with privacy lawsuit in California, and why OpenAI urged Microsoft to hold off releasing Bing

Systems19 Jun 2023 | 13

Lawyers who cited fake legal cases generated by ChatGPT blame the software

AI In Brief Plus: Cohere raises $230m in its latest Series C round, and more

AI + ML12 Jun 2023 | 29

Air Force colonel 'misspoke' when he said an AI-drone 'killed' its human operator

AI In Brief Plus: Around 3,900 jobs have been axed and replaced with AI, and Microsoft cosies up with a GPU provider to support OpenAI

AI + ML05 Jun 2023 | 18

Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors

AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet

AI + ML29 May 2023 | 80

Sci-fi author 'writes' 97 AI-generated tales in nine months

In brief Plus: Official ChatGPT iPhone app debuts; Debt collectors using chatbots to chase debtors

AI + ML22 May 2023 | 68

EU and Canada on waiting list for Google's AI chatbot Bard

In brief Also: What deepfake video makers charge; and Anthropic's Claude LLM can now process 100K tokens

AI + ML15 May 2023 | 8

White House pledges $140 million for seven new AI research centers

In brief Plus: Hollywood writers go on strike to fight against AI stealing their jobs, and more

AI + ML08 May 2023 | 9

EU legislates disclosure of copyright data used to train AI

In brief Watch the AI-generated anti-Biden advert from the GOP, and more

AI + ML01 May 2023 | 10

Google's AI chatbot Bard catches up to generating code

In brief NSFW? You'll need to check outputs for accuracy. Plus: OpenAI CEO says massive model era's over, Microsoft said to be building custom AI chip

AI + ML24 Apr 2023 | 4

OpenAI CEO confirms biz is not currently training GPT-5

In brief Plus: Elon Musk wants Twitter to develop generative AI, and ChatGPT bots flood Reddit

AI + ML17 Apr 2023 | 24

Meta has nothing to say about politicians making deepfaked ads

In Brief Plus: Aussie mayor threatens to sue OpenAI; Minors face ChatGPT ban; President Biden on AI

AI + ML11 Apr 2023 | 13

Google denies Bard trained using OpenAI ChatGPT responses

In brief ALSO: Synopsys releases AI tools for faster chip design, and Cerebras open sources family of language models

AI + ML03 Apr 2023 | 16

Google says it did not train its AI chatbot Bard on your private emails

AI In Brief ALSO: Web traffic to Microsoft Bing up 15.8 per cent since launch of GPT-4 bot, and more

AI + ML27 Mar 2023 | 24

OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes

In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more

AI + ML20 Mar 2023 | 19

GPT-4 to launch this week, Microsoft Germany's CTO lets slip

In-brief Plus: DuckDuckGo launches its own AI web search chatbot, and more

AI + ML13 Mar 2023 | 15

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot

In brief Plus: OpenAI says it won't train on customer data, and Microsoft rolls out new Bing AI modes

AI + ML06 Mar 2023 | 156

Cause for a LLaMA? Meta reckons its smaller text-emitting AI is better than rivals

In brief Plus: Lensa AI app maker sued for wacky app photo collection, Supreme Court debates chatbots

AI + ML25 Feb 2023 | 20

Microsoft to cap daily Bing AI queries to stop the bot delivering daft responses

AI in brief Also: Google asks staff to rewrite Bard's responses; EU's AI bill may stall; Endangered architects

AI + ML20 Feb 2023 | 26

Satya Nadella wants to make Google dance in battle for AI chat-powered web search

In brief Plus: Publisher using AI tools generated false health advice for men; how ChatGPT widens economic inequalities

AI + ML13 Feb 2023 | 8

Google to present AI-powered search features next week in live event

In brief Plus: Cruise and Waymo's driverless cars have caused 92 reported incidents in San Francisco; China's Baidu reportedly set to launch ChatGPT rival

AI + ML06 Feb 2023 | 14

Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time

In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more

AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 25

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