Microsoft is trying to show its commitment to AI safety by amending a lawsuit filed last year to unmask the four developers it alleges evaded guardrails on its AI tools in order to generate celebrity deepfakes. The company filed the lawsuit back in December, and a court order allowing Microsoft to seize a website associated […]
Chegg Sues Google, Says AI Search Results Are Killing Its Business
Chegg is sort of on its last dying breath at this point, but it will go out fighting. The online education company, which started out renting textbooks and later expanded into online homework help, sued Google on Monday for anticompetitive practices, saying it is unfairly scraping material from Chegg for its AI-powered search results. The […]
Europe’s New AI Weather Model Is Faster, Smarter, and Free—Here’s What to Know
The European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) just launched an AI-powered forecasting model, which the center says outperforms state-of-the-art physics-based models by up to 20%. The model is dubbed the Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). According to an ECMWF release, the new model operates at faster speeds than physics-based models and takes approximately 1,000 […]
Minnesota Grad Student Expelled for Allegedly Using AI Is Suing School
Haishan Yang, a Ph.D. student enrolled at the University of Minnesota, was expelled last year for allegedly using artificial intelligence tools to write his essays. He denies the accusations, claiming that his professors are engaged in a “conspiracy” against him, according to local Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE11, and is suing the school over its decision, […]
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype
The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The comments were made during a podcast interview in which he put a measuring stick on AI’s true impact: Success will be measured through global economic growth rather than […]
Netflix in Trouble After Using AI to Clone Murder Victim Gabby Petito’s Voice
Hollywood keeps getting in trouble for using AI to modulate voices and the most recent scandal involves Netflix’s boneheaded decision to recreate the voice of murdered travel vlogger Gabby Petito. The Petito disappearance in the summer of 2021 transfixed Americans. Unfolding against the backdrop of the pandemic, the case went viral on social media, where […]
‘A Maze the Size of Earth’: New AI Tackles Math Problems That Take Millions of Steps
Researchers have developed an artificially intelligent system that does the exact opposite of living in the moment. But it doesn’t just think a few steps ahead—it thinks millions of steps ahead. A team led by mathematician Sergei Gukov from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of machine-learning algorithm designed to […]
An AI-Generated ‘True Crime’ Series Has Millions of Views
It was a perfect crime. AI slop is taking over the internet, and it’s making it increasingly difficult for web users to know what is real, what is fake, and what is some weird, synthetic mixture between the two. 404 Media reports on the newest frontier in this bizarre, dystopic trend, revealing the rise of […]
USAID Workers Reportedly Believe They Were Recorded by Google’s Gemini AI
As if the employees of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) weren’t under enough scrutiny from Elon Musk and his team of edgelord posters, it turns out another set of unwelcome eyes seem to be on the department. According to a report from IT Brew, USAID staffers were warned by leadership that Google’s […]
Neom, Saudi Arabia’s Dystopian Desert City Project, Announces $5 Billion AI Data Center
They say data is the new oil. If that’s the case, it makes total sense that the oil kings of the last century are trying to become the data kings of this one. That’s a longwinded way of saying Saudi Arabia (the aforementioned oil kings) have announced a new multi-billion dollar AI data center project. […]