Boffins fool AI chatbot into revealing harmful content – with 98 percent success rate This one weird trick works every time, most of the time AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 10
Microsoft partners with labor unions to shape and regulate AI Redmond reassures AFL-CIO workers they won't be pushed out by technology AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 5
FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope Hey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws? AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 5
Trust us, says EU, our AI Act will make AI trustworthy by banning the nasty ones Big Tech plays the 'this might hurt innovation' card for rules that bar predictive policing, workplace emotion assessments AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 17
Don't be fooled: Google faked its Gemini AI voice demo AI In brief PLUS: The AI companies that will use AMD's latest GPUs, and more AI + ML11 Dec 2023 | 6
Google's Project Ellman: Merging photo and search data to create digital twin chatbot 'This is a brainstorming concept a team is at the early stages of exploring' AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 19
What are you feeding your AI? AI is changing the world, but your AI algorithms might need a diet of high-quality data captured at the edge Commissioned
A tailored approach to GenAI How using Retrieval Augmented Generation can enhance your AI development and deployment Webinar
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI now in competition regulator's sights Has recent CEO, board shenanigans given rise to a merger situation? CMA is asking for a friend AI + ML08 Dec 2023 | 9
Meta trials Purple Llama project for AI developers to test safety risks in models Security boosted and inappropriate content blocked in large language models AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 4
Google teases AlphaCode 2 – a code-generating AI revamped with Gemini Don't worry, your developer jobs are safe … for now AI + ML07 Dec 2023 | 11
Google launches Gemini AI systems, claims it's beating OpenAI and others - mostly Gemini accepts text, images, audio, and video and comes in three flavors AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 4
Mere minority of orgs put GenAI in production after year of hype Folks are dipping their toes in without a full commitment AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 14
Elon Musk's xAI wants $1B cash infusion in exchange for equity shares What, spent all your liquid assets on Twitter, Elon? AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 49
EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door Bloc risks missing out on first-to-legislate status if timetable slips AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 15
Getty's image-scraping sueball against Stability AI will go to trial in the UK Computer-generated image maker fails to quash case on its claimed home turf AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 25
Boffins devise 'universal backdoor' for image models to cause AI hallucinations Data poisoning appears open to all AI + ML06 Dec 2023 | 23
Microsoft fixes Copilot multi-monitor issues in Windows 11 update Alt+Tab support added and more in latest update to OS AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 6
Optimizing GenAI for your business How RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) could be the best way forward Webinar
Tech world forms AI Alliance to promote open and responsible AI Everyone from Linux Foundation to NASA and Intel ... but some big names in AI are MIA AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 1
How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators Opinion Better than a Pi? It’s an open and shut case
FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope Hey Bing, how can I invest billions in a company but not break antitrust laws?
Don't be fooled: Google faked its Gemini AI voice demo AI In brief PLUS: The AI companies that will use AMD's latest GPUs, and more
Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware Who, Me? Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there – what a pity if something …happened to it
Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers And the joy of slaughtering demons as John Romero himself delivers a frag-tastic new level
The 15-inch MacBook Air just nails it Desktop Tourism Vast battery life, zippy performance, and rich speakers make an impressive package
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights Elon's biz claims 1st Amendment rights
NASA pushes back timing of ISS deorbit vehicle contract Proposals now due in 2024 for a launch 5 years later
Two years on, 1 in 4 apps still vulnerable to Log4Shell Lack of awareness still blamed for patching apathy despite it being among most infamous bugs of all time
23andMe responds to breach with new suit-limiting user terms Security in brief Also: 'well-known Bay Area tech' firm's laptops stolen and check out some critical vulns
Dell CTO says enterprises will have GenAI in production next year – what could go wrong? It seems many a sleepless night lie ahead for CIOs AI + ML05 Dec 2023 | 7
AstraZeneca bets $247M AI can create a cancer-fighting antibody Startup Absci will turn to its generative AI algorithms to design synthetic protein AI + ML04 Dec 2023 | 28
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 AI + ML04 Dec 2023 | 15
Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books 'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend' AI + ML02 Dec 2023 | 53
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 | 2
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 | 46
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 | 22
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 | 35
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
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 | 38
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 Sponsored Feature
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