Creating a single AI-generated image needs as much power as charging your smartphone
AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft to invest £2.5B in UK datacenters to power AI, and more
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Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books
'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend'
AI + ML02 Dec 2023 | 44
HPE says impact of AI on enterprise not 'overstated.' It must be hoping so
HPE Discover EMEA Company counting on widespread business adoption to counter server declines
AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 1
Boehringer Ingelheim swaps lab coats for AI algorithms in search for new drugs
Mixing IBM's foundation models and proprietary data to discover novel antibodies
AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 1
Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data
This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind
AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 42
AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more
What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction
AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 13
OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO
Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role
AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 19
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 | 3
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 | 20
Experienced Copilot help is hard to find, warns Microsoft MVP
Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred
AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 40
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 | 34
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 | 62
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
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Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files
Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license
The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data
Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can
Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit
Supply chain attacks: The gift that keeps on giving
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
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 | 24
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
Commissioned
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
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