Alexa's future is pay-to-play, departing Amazon exec predicts
This just after Amazon started charging for Alexa's free home security Guard
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 8
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California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks
Route 404: Human driver requirement not found
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 15
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 | 2
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI
Big Brother wants to watch your big data
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 6
Amazon to sink $4B into AI dev Anthropic, become its cloud provider
One way to get preferential access to OpenAI rival's tech
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 1
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 | 4
UK procurement is too glacial to bring AI into defense, MPs told
Projects take so long that tech is out of date before it enters service, industry says
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 11
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 | 27
FYI: Those fancy 'Google-designed' TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help
Comment And Meta's tapping up Big B too – it's big bucks for this silicon giant
AI + ML22 Sep 2023 |
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
Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere
Windows gets its own Copilot to help operate the operating system – Edge, Bing, Outlook, 365 not spared, either
AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 40
Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips
This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender
AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 6
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT
Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox
AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
Chan Zuckerberg org to spin up 1,000+ H100 GPU cluster for AI medical research
Plus: DeepMind trained model to predict genetically mutated DNA strings
AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 6
Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more
Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot
AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34
Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs
People try to put us down, talkin' 'bout ML generation
AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 29
GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys
Final update AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training
AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 9
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 | 20
Gandalf chatbot security game counters privacy fireballs
You shall not pass judgement, Lakera AI insists, because exposed player info was harmless
AI + ML17 Sep 2023 |
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Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024
The blind think this is not a visionary decision
Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist
Cloud provider blamed for loss of 20% of exchange's capital
Car industry pleads for delay to post-Brexit tariffs on EVs
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Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy
Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'
T-Mobile US exposes some customer data – but don't call it a breach
Infosec in brief PLUS: Trojan hidden in PoC; cyber insurance surge; pig butchering's new cuts; and the week's critical vulns
Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers
As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators
No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center
who, me? Techie tried to dunk on a co-worker, and found himself absolutely soaking wet
Fujitsu to quit Tokyo HQ
ASIA IN BRIEF PLUS: Micron breaks ground in India; Hong Kong goes for green fintech; Taiwan to launch first sub; and more
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Adobe's AI tools may paint a pretty picture, but they also cost a pretty penny
At least artists are being paid to train its models
AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 4
Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle
When you’re shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference?
AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 18
Don't worry, folks. Big Tech pinky swears it'll build safe, trustworthy generative AI
White House bags more voluntary commitments
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 6
Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI
Another would be copyright class action
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 28
Friends don't let friends use AI to chat
Science shocker: Real BFFs understand authenticity and sincerity can't be machine-generated
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
Alibaba set to unleash AI that offers financial advice – do you feel lucky?
Claims it's already comparable to finance industry pros and capable of recommending insurance plans
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 8
Billions of 'custobots' are coming online. Marketers may need to learn SEO for AI
You can't take a machine to lunch or put it to sleep with PowerPoint, but you can try to shape its worldview
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
OpenAI boss Sam Altman receives Indonesia's first golden visa
Open AI boss to get 'red carpet' at immigration
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 1
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B
Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash
AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
Google thinks $20M ought to be enough to figure out how or if AI can be used responsibly
Mull it over, think tanks, while we roll out this tech into every corner of life
AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 4
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 | 10
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
Managers warn company goals can't be achieved unless coders get more face time and less FaceTime
AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 156
GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code
It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs
AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 3
NixCon drops Palmer Luckey's AI combat drone maker Anduril as sponsor due to military ties
NixOS event organizers say community unhappy about funding from Pentagon contractor
AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 8
TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months
Boss Mark Liu says silicon ready but advanced packaging isn't
AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 4
Microsoft to shield paid-up Copilot customers from any AI copyright brawls it starts
Tough luck, freeloaders: You're on your own
AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 8
d-Matrix bets on in-memory compute to undercut Nvidia in smaller AI models
Microsoft among in-memory AI chip startup's backers
AI + ML07 Sep 2023 | 3
AI to replace 2.4 million jobs in the US by 2030, many fewer than other forms of automation
It's not all bad news. Poets are safe. And machines will take some jobs no human wants
AI + ML06 Sep 2023 | 37
US AGs: We need law to purge the web of AI-drawn child sex abuse material
Deepfakes of underage girls set off alarm bells for legal eagles
AI + ML06 Sep 2023 | 42
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Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI
Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios
AI + ML05 Sep 2023 | 35
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
Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train
Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment
AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6
How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info
Hey, stop Zucking up my data!
AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 38
Another thing AI is better at than you: First-person drone racing
May as well give up already
AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 10
OpenAI urges court to throw out authors' claims in AI copyright battle
ChatGPT's prose harvesting protected by fair use, super-lab argues
AI + ML31 Aug 2023 | 42
AI-powered monitors to defend Washington DC against aerial threats
Replaces surveillance systems installed after 9/11 - and years before drones became a threat
AI + ML30 Aug 2023 | 7
Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc
Cloud Next And adds rivals Claude 2, Falcon, Llama 2 to Vertex AI
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 6
Perhaps AI is going to take away coding jobs – of those who trust this tech too much
Llama 2 avoids errors by staying quiet, GPT-4 gives long, if useless, samples
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 19
Google sharpens AI toolset with new chips, GPUs, more at Cloud Next
Cloud Next TPU v5e, A3 VMs, and GKE Enterprise headline first in-person shindig since pandemic
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OpenAI pops an enterprise sticker on ChatGPT to give big biz some peace of mind
Here's what you actually get for this VIP level. And how is Microsoft happy with this?
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 4
Nvidia just made a killing on AI – where is everyone else?
Comment It doesn't matter if your GPU is better at training if no one can get hold of them
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 10
US Air Force wants $6B to build 2,000 AI-powered drones
Pilots' Goose cooked as uncrewed vehicles prove cheaper and perhaps more versatile
AI + ML29 Aug 2023 | 86
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
Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student
Detection algorithms also fail to distinguish between answers from real people and large language models
AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 30
Meta lets Code Llama run riot under almost-open terms
Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something?
AI + ML25 Aug 2023 | 4
Big Tech pumps $235M into AI model depot Hugging Face
Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh
AI + ML24 Aug 2023 |
Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans' pay or credit
Proposed trade rules offer substantial pay rises in the hope they halt writers' strike
AI + ML24 Aug 2023 | 36
Good thing Nvidia makes number-crunching GPUs – it'll need them to count its cash
When there's a machine-learning gold rush, make sure you're the one selling the shovels
AI + ML24 Aug 2023 | 4
Generative AI won't steal your job, just change it, says UN
Unless you're a woman in a clerical position, in which case your role might never come into existence
AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 15
You can now fine-tune OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4
And work out cheaper than top-end model
AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 9
Cool, more promises of a Universal Translator from Big Tech. This time, Meta – again
SeamlessM4T seems less open source than some might wish
AI + ML23 Aug 2023 | 4
Get a $25 gift card if you help the US check whether these facial logins really work
NB: That will involve handing over your selfies and other personal info to AI outfits to experiment with
AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 8
Judge snuffs man's quest to have AI-created art protected by copyright
'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' lost
AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 20
California DMV hits brakes on Cruise's SF driverless fleet after series of fender benders
Updated 50% chop effective 'immediately' as department investigates traffic and safety issues
AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 57
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
Tencent predicts big profits from lock-in to cloudy AI
Asia In Brief PLUS: Lucasfilm quits Singapore ‘Sandcrawler’; China criticizes India’s tech push; Red Apple celebrates 30 years in China
AI + ML21 Aug 2023 |
Hallucinating ChatGPT finds a role playing Dungeons & Dragons
Magical models less a replacement for human DMs and more a familiar for GMs
AI + ML19 Aug 2023 | 14
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times
Updated The search for a politically neutral 'truth' goes on
AI + ML18 Aug 2023 | 193
'AI-written history' of Maui wildfire becomes Amazon bestseller, fuels conspiracies
Bizarrely, Bezos's bookshop is also promoting a book about the book
AI + ML18 Aug 2023 | 28
Tesla knew Autopilot weakness killed a driver – and didn't fix it, engineers claim
Software's alleged inability to handle cross traffic central to court battle after two road deaths
AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 173
Google reportedly designing chatbots to do all sorts of jobs – including life coach
Machines have no experience in the real world, so why would you turn to them for advice?
AI + ML17 Aug 2023 | 16
Humans stressed out by content moderation? Just use AI, says OpenAI
Tired? Drink coffee, says Starbucks. Bored? Try whiskey, says Jameson. Lazy? Why not drive, says Ford. Etc etc
AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
Cruise self-driving taxi gets wheels stuck in wet cement
This is not the robotaxi future that was promised
AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 38
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US task force to look into how military could use generative AI
'Hey our enemies are going to use this technology, so why shouldn't we?'
AI + ML16 Aug 2023 | 13
Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you're not an enterprise user
New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its products
AI + ML15 Aug 2023 | 20
Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box – a box it manages, that is
You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform
AI + ML15 Aug 2023 |
AIs can produce 'dangerous' content about eating disorders when prompted
Digital safety org worries OpenAI and pals aren't doing enough
AI + ML15 Aug 2023 | 28
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
Amazon uses AI to write reviews of people's product reviews
From one untrusted source to another ... and another
AI + ML14 Aug 2023 | 5
Pack of GM Cruise robo-taxis freeze, snarl up Friday night traffic amid festival crowds
Just a day after getting green light to expand autonomous ops
AI + ML14 Aug 2023 | 48
New Zealand supermarket's recipe-generating AI takes toxic output to a new level
Some of its suggestions are poison. Others - like banana and tomato tea - might as well be
AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 67
Chinese web giants go on $5B Nvidia shopping spree to fuel AI ambitions
In the ML arms race, GPUs are the ammunition
AI + ML11 Aug 2023 | 4
Nvidia gives Grace Hopper superchip an HBM3e upgrade – sometime next year
641GB of total memory ought to be enough for anybody (and their LLM)
AI + ML09 Aug 2023 | 4
Google, you're not unleashing 'unproven' AI medical bots on hospital patients, yeah?
Senator won't be PaLMed off as web giant eyes up healthcare industry
AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 11
How to spot OpenAI's crawler bot and stop it slurping sites for training data
Aww, c'mon, let us scrape your pages, we've got billions at stake
AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 20
Zoom updates its legalese explicitly promising not to feed vidchats to AIs
Welcome – but weird – after months-old policy change that seemingly allowed it went viral
AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 7
Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again
Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems
AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 86
ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip
But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible
AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 49
Boffins say they can turn typing sounds into text with 95% accuracy
Your neighbor's clacking keys aren't just annoying - they're also exploitable
AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 47
TV and film extras fear generative AI will copy their faces and bodies to take their jobs
AI in brief Plus: Apple has spent $22.1B on research for generative AI, and Kickstarter introduces new AI policies
AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 17
Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy
What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech?
AI + ML04 Aug 2023 | 45
IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images
Some people just want to watch the world burn
AI + ML04 Aug 2023 | 4
Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools
Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical
AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 9
AMD says it'll jump through Uncle Sam's hoops to sell AI chips to China
Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits
AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 2
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now
AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43
We're in the OWASP-makes-list-of-security-bug-types phase with LLM chatbots
Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 5
Beyond the hype, AI promises leg up for scientific research
However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 6
Google wants to 'supercharge Assistant' with AI as Meta gives bots a personality
Does that include Zuck or?
AI + ML01 Aug 2023 | 5
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