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Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up

Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 |

AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons

In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 14

Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred

AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 25

AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds

Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors

AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 33

UK and US lead international efforts to raise AI security standards

17 countries agree to adopt vision for artificial intelligence security as fears mount over pace of development

AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 14

Amazon says it's ready to train future AI workforce

AI in Brief Plus: Russia will soon be Putin up with lagging West, fake influencers and more

AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 5

NTT adapts AI network analysis tool to detect faults in nuclear fusion reactors

Here comes the Sun

AI + ML23 Nov 2023 | 4

US watchdog gives itself power to demand documents in AI probes

And offers $25,000 prize to stop voice deepfakes from catching on

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 2

Author hopes to throw the book at OpenAI, Microsoft with copyright class action

Stop us if you've heard this one before

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 28

OpenAI's CEO merry-go-round tosses out voice feature for ChatGPT

Unsurprisingly, the app doesn't know what's going on at the company either

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 11

No more staff budget for UK civil service, but worry not – here's an incubator for AI

Today's story was brought to you by the words politician and silly

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 61

Fake views for the win: Text-to-image models learn more efficiently with made-up data

Future neural nets will probably use a mix of AI-generated and real info

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1

Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 78

Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions

Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI

AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1

Ex-OpenAI staff launch new chatbot – yup, it's Anthropic with Claude 2.1

Half as many hallucinations, startup claims, and it admits when it's wrong

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 1

OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you?

Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5

OpenAI meltdown: How could Microsoft have let this happen after betting so many billions?

Comment A quick summary of the past three days of chaos. And Redmond has questions to answer

AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 100

With all eyes on OpenAI, Meta drags its Responsible AI team to the recycle bin

Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 10

OpenAI staff threaten to leave if ousted CEO Altman is not reinstated

OpenAI is nothing without its people, say staffers who signed letter

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 18

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 | 36

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Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license

The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS

DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked

Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer

Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model

Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert

AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds

Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors

Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default

Updated Grandma is watching what?!

Ukraine cyber spies claim Putin's planes are in peril as sanctions bite

Aeroflot fleet still has a smoking section, but not for tobacco

UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms

Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives

Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI

Bing grows but Google remains top dog, according to Ofcom report

Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP

Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred

Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition

Review Or your wallet

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Fired OpenAI boss Sam Altman may join Microsoft

Updated Worst season of Succession ever

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 21

CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career

Updated After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas'

AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output

Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive

AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29

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 | 73

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

FCC probes rise of AI robocall armies

'Hello, our records indicate that you had an accident with a massively overhyped technology that wasn't your fault...'

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 6

Microsoft takes aim at on-desk, non-cloudy developers with Windows AI Studio

Ignite Yes, it's true, not everyone uses Azure – shock

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 11

Cerebras CEO puts Nvidia on blast for 'arming' China with top-tier GPUs

SC23 Calls biz rival 'un-American' for weaving around chip export ban

AI + ML16 Nov 2023 | 5

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

You get a Copilot, and you get a Copilot – Microsoft now the Copilot company

Ignite Bing Chat is now known as – you can guess. Plus more AI bits and pieces coming to Teams, Office, etc

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 43

OpenAI pauses ChatGPT Plus sign-ups as it 'hits capacity'

If only there was an investor with a scalable cloud to hand...

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 2

To pay or not to pay for AI's creative 'borrowing' – that is the question

One that Microsoft and Meta dodged during House of Lords committee

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 54

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

Software is listening for the options you want it to offer, and it's about time

Comment Talking back to devices will end the confusion caused by long menus of functions nobody uses

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 23

UnitedHealthcare's broken AI denied seniors' medical claims, lawsuit alleges

Post-acute care algorithm allegedly comes up short 90% of the time

AI + ML15 Nov 2023 | 37

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

AI chemist creates catalysts to make oxygen using Martian meteorites

Robotic process hunts down local extraterrestrial materials to aid supply of on-site fuel and oxygen

AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 6

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

Generative AI: It’s not just for the big guys

Smaller organizations can enjoy the fruits of generative AI by combining small language models with retrieval augmented generation

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

Microsoft hits Alt+F4 on internal ChatGPT access over security jitters, irony ensues

Apparently the move was in error

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 14

UK signals legal changes to self-driving vehicle liabilities

But with technical and insurance industry question unanswered, a few potholes may lie ahead

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 93

Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids

Perp said to have secretly recorded patients – and digitally undressed them using web neural networks

AI + ML10 Nov 2023 | 54

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

Don't worry about those new export rules, China – Nvidia's already got more sanctions-compliant GPUs for ya

Chips limbo-dance right under Biden's performance limits

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10

The GDPR's new ally

How C2RO and Lenovo deploy edge-cloud AI and computer vision to analyze video footage and stay GDPR compliant

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India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes

Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10

FTC interrupts Copyright Office probe to flip out over potential AI fraud, abuse

Sir, this is a Wendy's

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 22

Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him

ROTM Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician's death at Korean food plant

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 126

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

Cruise patches robo-taxi software to not drag humans across the road anymore

Self-driving car outfit also creates chief safety officer role. No wonder

AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 22

OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs

Final update Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall

AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 5

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

Google Bard AI contractors unionize amid anger over 'retaliatory' layoffs

Not actually our problem, says Chocolate Factory, but watchdog decides otherwise - again

AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 3

Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle

Frenemies in multi-year deal to offload AI inference to Big Red super-cluster

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 23

Cruise admits its driverless robo-taxis need a human at the remote-control wheel

Plus: Parent GM taps brakes on AI van production

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 9

AI gold rush continues as Aleph Alpha scores more than half a billion dollars

HPE and Lidl co-owners among consortium funding 'sovereign' Generative AI company

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 |

Beijing prepares for imminent rise of humanoid robots

Mass production of C-3POs pitched for 2025

AI + ML07 Nov 2023 | 11

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

OpenAI hits the GPT-4 Turbo button plus promises copyright shield for fans

Video Neural network lab also plans to open app store with revenue sharing

AI + ML06 Nov 2023 | 2

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

World leaders ink AI safety pacts while Musk and Sunak engage in awkward bromance

Summit's crowning glory was a not-legally-binding document that China didn't sign

AI + ML03 Nov 2023 | 79

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 | 31

UK MoD braves the weather to train maritime AI capabilities

We will scan them on the beaches

AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 18

Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users

Updated T&Cs reveal intent to restrict access under undefined circumstances

AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 11

Desperately seeking GPUs? AWS will let you reserve instances in advance – no refunds

Better make sure you really need it on the day. Paid upfront and no modifications to orders allowed

AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 1

UK convinces nations to sign Bletchley Declaration in bid for AI safety

Tech leaders and politicos descend on Britland to thrash out regulation and governance

AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 34

Don't feel left out, chip designers. Nvidia's made a chatbot assistant for you, too

In the lab, anyway

AI + ML01 Nov 2023 |

Tesla swerves liability in Autopilot death lawsuit

Cali jury decides 9-3 Muskmobile maker wasn't at fault when Model 3 veered into tree and exploded

AI + ML31 Oct 2023 | 43

Judge bins AI copyright lawsuit against DeviantArt, Midjourney – Stability still in the mix

Artists' lawyers vow to fight on

AI + ML31 Oct 2023 | 20

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 | 12

Just one in ten UK orgs have significant AI investment plan

Gen AI still in the pilot stage, despite government hopes to be world leader

AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 21

Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT

Video The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents – sure, no problem

AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 24

Boffins find AI stumbles when quizzed on the tough stuff

Must try harder, D+

AI + ML29 Oct 2023 | 48

Cruise blues: Robotaxi firm pauses all driverless operations

Decision comes after CA revokes firm's driverless license and NHTSA signal an investigation

AI + ML27 Oct 2023 | 9

Amazon Ads rolls out generative AI for ad image composition

Not enough gourds in your product pics? Try the 'Pumpkin spice' theme

AI + ML26 Oct 2023 | 5

Putting AI challenges in perspective with partnerships

How organizations en route to AI sufficiency can ease their journey by working with tech providers like HPE

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AI luminaries call for urgent regulation to head off future threats, but Meta's brainbox boss disagrees

Suggest developers spend 'at least one-third of their R&D budget' on safety

AI + ML24 Oct 2023 | 18

'AI divide' across the US leaves economists concerned

AI use up 266% in five years but it's still used by less than a quarter of workers

AI + ML24 Oct 2023 | 9

Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools

A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim

AI + ML23 Oct 2023 |

SEC boss warns it's 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause financial crash

AI In Brief Plus Meta gets physical, moves bots in the house...

AI + ML23 Oct 2023 | 28

Automating generative AI development

GenAI and powerful server hardware supports quick design, build and delivery of new AI applications and models

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UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

American selfie-scraper shakes off $9M privacy fine as the 'actions of a foreign state are out of scope'

AI + ML19 Oct 2023 | 41

Nvidia sells Foxconn on AI factories that turn raw data into profit

Or, at least, information that can drive profits anyway

AI + ML18 Oct 2023 |

Hyperscale datacenter capacity set to triple because of AI demand

And it's going to suck... up more power too

AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 1

Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs

AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears...of laughter

AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 2

US launches official probe into Cruise after pair of pedestrian accidents

Hey, we're still safer than human drivers, says GM outfit

AI + ML17 Oct 2023 | 7

Ex-Fugees star accuses his lawyer of going full robot in corruption trial

Updated An AI may be able to botch a closing argument, but can it sing Killing Me Softly?

AI + ML17 Oct 2023 | 8

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

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

AI safety guardrails easily thwarted, security study finds

OpenAI GPT-3.5 Turbo chatbot defenses dissolve with '20 cents' of API tickling

AI + ML12 Oct 2023 | 28

AI processing could consume 'as much electricity as Ireland'

Boffins estimate power needed if every Google search became an LLM interaction. Gulp

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 14

Generative AI slashes cloud migration hassles, says McKinsey partner

Bhargs Srivathsan also urges enterprises to ditch the tech Lamborghinis for efficient ride

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 19

Go ahead, let the unknowable security risks of Windows Copilot onto your PC fleet

Column Or maybe don't let Microsoft's desire to defeat Google dictate your defensive strategy

AI + ML11 Oct 2023 | 71

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

Japanese PM says international AI regulations will be here by Christmas

G7 to meet after getting ideas from UN’s Internet Governance Forum

AI + ML10 Oct 2023 | 8

The generative AI easy button: How to run a POC in your datacenter

There’s an easy way to get started with generative AI without long procurement cycles or substantial deployments - here’s how

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

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