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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 | 26
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
Abstracting complexity
Simplifying AI operations from cloud to edge
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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
An AI may be able to botch a closing argument, but can it sing Killing Me Softly?
AI + ML17 Oct 2023 | 6
A unified force
Bringing AI to your data
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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 | 18
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 | 69
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
Commissioned
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
Popular
‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities
Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence
In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk
Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs
Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll
Profits plunge, sales down in Q3. Multi-year cost cutting drive means staff will be decimated
Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle
Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
Comment Plus: Working from home is 'detached from reality' says world's richest man
Now we can blame spacecraft for polluting the atmosphere
'My god, it's full of aerosolized metals!'
Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels
'Their future is murky at the moment'
What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court
Arson case produces a very tricky precedent for anyone who values digital privacy
Paying for WinRAR in all the wrong ways - Russia and China hitting ancient app
Incidentally, Windows 11 has native rar support now
Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries
Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database
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SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son predicts artificial general intelligence is a decade away
'Investo-bot, make me rich' is his vision – powered by Arm chips, natch
AI + ML09 Oct 2023 | 19
AI girlfriend encouraged man to attempt crossbow assassination of Queen
21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot
AI + ML06 Oct 2023 | 110
Acting union calls out Hollywood studios for 'double standard' on AI use
Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true?
AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 15
When is a PC an AI PC? Nobody seems to know or wants to tell
Canalys EMEA Forum HP and Lenovo developing machines with LLMs – maybe it'll be in the price?
AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 35
Canva creates $200M kitty to pay creators for stuff they feed its design-bot
Maybe this being-ethical-with-creators-and-not-just-ripping-off-their-stuff thing is gathering steam
AI + ML05 Oct 2023 | 7
Microsoft rolls OpenAI's text-to-pic DALL-E 3 into Bing
AI-made images invisibly watermarked – as academics warn that kind of measure is pointless
AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 2
Dell jumps on personalized GenAI biz wagon with 'customizable' pitch
Flags up enterprise customer adoption 'hesitancy,' though, as data governance worries persist
AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 1
Clearing a path to success
The benefits of simplifying AI operations from cloud to edge
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Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her
Victim in critical condition
AI + ML04 Oct 2023 | 122
ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam
Compiles learning and code to pass – but not necessarily with flying colors
AI + ML03 Oct 2023 | 17
Watermarking AI images to fight misinfo and deepfakes may be pretty pointless
Exclusive Basically, it's 'not going to work'
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 29
Fuming Tom Hanks says he had nothing to do with that AI dental ad clone of him
Updated I'm not a smart man, but I know it should be cast away
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 27
NSA hopes AI Security Center will help US outsmart, outwit, and outlast adversaries
Agency boss warns enemies trying to nick AI advances and 'corrupt our application of it'
AI + ML02 Oct 2023 | 1
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 | 4
Bringing AI to reality
How DeepBrain made the most of Lenovo's AI Innovators Program
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Medium asks AI bot crawlers: Please, please don't scrape bloggers' musings
OpenAI and Google might respect robots.txt but how about the others?
AI + ML29 Sep 2023 | 7
OpenAI in talks with Jony Apple Ive and Softbank over iPhone-but-for-AI monster
So, a portable Alexa or Google Home-esque gadget?
AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 3
More and more LLMs in biz products, but who'll take responsibility for their output?
ServiceNow and SAP join the genAI frenzy, but users advised to 'keep a human in the loop'
AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 9
Cloudflare loosens AI from the network edge using GPU-accelerated Workers
Isn't that how Skynet took over?
AI + ML28 Sep 2023 |
OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges
If the chatbot doesn't know what you need, it'll 'Bing It!' for paying customers
AI + ML28 Sep 2023 | 10
Unions claim win as Hollywood studios agree generative AI isn't an author
The pen is (slightly) mightier than the algorithm
AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 17
Spotify now using AI to clone podcaster’s voice into Spanish
Meanwhile Google pushes podcast listeners toward YouTube Music
AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 4
OpenAI could be valued up to $90 billion if deal to sell employee shares closes
ChatGPT makers allegedly in talks with investors to let employees sell out
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 6
Report: CIA eyes building AI chatbot to rival China
CIA, FBI and friends using AI to uncover threats? What could possibly go wrong?
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 9
Allocating AI and other pieces of your workload placement puzzle
Consider performance, latency, security costs and other factors as you mull where to place your applications
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Getty delivers text-to-image service it says won't get you sued, may get you paid
Trained on its own image library that's clear of copyright complications
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 16
Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030
Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake
AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 91
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 | 15
California governor vetoes bill requiring human drivers in robo trucks
Route 404: Human driver requirement not found
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 60
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 | 5
Uncle Sam mulls spying on clouds being used to train AI
Big Brother wants to watch your big data
AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 7
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 | 2
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
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 | 31
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 | 1
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 | 44
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 | 22
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 |
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 | 15
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 | 12
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 | 44
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
Cloud Infrastructure Week29 Aug 2023 |
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 | 31
Biting the hand that feeds IT
