Artificial Intelligence (AI) Category

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BUSINESS

Jul 17, 2024

Google’s Gemini AI under fire for allegedly reading private docs on Google Drive without permission

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistant Gemini is under fire for allegedly reading private documents hosted on Google Drive without users’ permission. The report comes from user and AI Governance Senior Advisor Kevin Bankston’s

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BUSINESS

Jul 17, 2024

Microsoft’s AI achieves human voice parity, public release on hold

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Microsoft claims its new AI text-to-speech (TTS) generator has reached “human parity" as it can now precisely mimic a human voice. Replacing the first-generation model released earlier in January 2023, VALL-E

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 17, 2024

OpenAI’s Project Strawberry set to bring reasoning to AI

Sophia Feona Cantiller

A new era approaches the field of artificial intelligence (AI) as OpenAI is reportedly working on a project to equip its models with unprecedented reasoning capabilities. Filed under the code name “Strawberry,” the project seeks

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 16, 2024

Moroccan influencer outshines 1,500 bets in first-ever Miss AI pageant

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Winning contestant Kenza Layli | Fanvue World AI Creator Awards Among 1,500 artificial intelligence (AI) entries, Moroccan candidate Kenza Layli rose to the top and was crowned the world’s first-ever Miss AI. “I

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 16, 2024

AI boosts creativity but limits variety, study finds

Sophia Feona Cantiller

An experiment revealed the ups and downs of artificial intelligence (AI) in creative writing after participants with less inherent skills showed increased creativity at the expense of low variety among similar and predictable short stories.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 15, 2024

AI decodes Sperm whales’ complex ‘phonetic alphabet’

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Researchers discovered previously unknown structures in sperm whale communication similar to human language by analyzing whale sound recordings with Artificial Intelligence (AI).  The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Cetacean Translation

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 15, 2024

US Lawmakers introduce ‘COPIED Act’ to combat AI, empower artists 

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Aiming to combat the rise of harmful deepfakes and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated content, lawmakers from the United States (U.S.) introduced a bill last July 11 requiring online platforms to allow labels for synthetic

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BUSINESS

Jul 12, 2024

OpenAI, Los Alamos lab team up to test AI in bioscience

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Forging private and public sector collaboration, OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announced a partnership to evaluate the applications and risks of artificial intelligence (AI) in bioscience. “As a private company dedicated to serving

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 12, 2024

South Korean firm leverages AI to cut VFX costs for indie filmmakers

Sophia Feona Cantiller

South Korean startup Beeble AI is set to transform the film industry after developing an AI-powered virtual production platform that offers affordable visual effects (VFX) tools for independent filmmakers. The company seeks to address

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BUSINESS

Jul 11, 2024

MIT’s GenSQL bridges AI and SQL for easy database queries

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Statistical analyses have been made simpler with the introduction of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) for databases, thanks to a new tool that MIT researchers have developed.   GenSQL is built upon the existing structured query

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STARTUPS

Jul 11, 2024

AI brain for all robot types now underway, startup developers land $300 million in funds

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Purpose-built robots, designed to perform only specific tasks, are facing extinction as a general-purpose brain for androids is on the way courtesy of Skild AI, which has secured $300 million in funding. The

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ENTERTAINMENT

Jul 11, 2024

AI veterans release ‘Hollywood-Grade’ AI text-to-video tool Odyssey

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Two self-driving car company veterans launched Odyssey, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup, aiming to create ‘Hollywood-grade video tools for professional filmmakers and animators.’ “We’re building Hollywood-grade visual AI, where beautiful scenery,

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BUSINESS

Jul 10, 2024

OpenAI services no longer available in China after US firm blocks access

Sophia Feona Cantiller

OpenAI has severed its tie with China, blocking rival Chinese developers and users from accessing its services and tools beginning July 9. In a June interview with Bloomberg, the leading artificial intelligence (AI) firm first

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BUSINESS

Jul 10, 2024

Google: New AI training method 13x faster, 10x more efficient

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Google’s Deepmind researchers discovered a quicker and more efficient method to train artificial intelligence (AI) models, claiming that the new technique offers 13 times faster performance and 10 times greater power efficiency than existing

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BUSINESS

Jul 9, 2024

Generative AI is ruining the internet—says Google research paper

Sophia Feona Cantiller

In a recently released paper, Google researchers found that generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is ruining the Internet with fake or doctored content intentionally used to spread false information or deceptive narratives. “Manipulation of human likeness

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BUSINESS

Jul 9, 2024

Nintendo shuts door on generative AI, President confirms

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Nintendo has drawn the line between its games and artificial intelligence (AI) after President Shuntaro Furukawa publicly confirmed that the company would not be incorporating generative AI into its game development. In its latest Q&

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BUSINESS

Jul 9, 2024

AI bots, web scraping only one block away after Cloudflare’s new feature

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Cloudflare debuted a "Declare your AIndependence" initiative on July 3, releasing a brand-new one-click option that lets web owners block all artificial intelligence (AI) bots and crawlers from scraping content without a license.

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SECURITY

Jul 8, 2024

ChatGPT Mac app under fire after storing chats in plain text

Sophia Feona Cantiller

Convenience quickly turned into concern among Mac users after a developer pointed out that the macOS app for ChatGPT was storing conversations in plain text, a flaw that made user data vulnerable to security risks.

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