Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has wowed audiences with its epic scope, striking cinematography, and vast runtime, but the film has also run into trouble over its use of AI to modulate the voices of its actors. A number of other films released this awards season have also been found using AI and now the Academy […]
Google’s AI Super Bowl Ad Fiasco Somehow Gets Worse
Google simply cannot escape the drama related to its Super Bowl Sunday ad campaign that is supposed to promote its Gemini AI model. What was originally thought to be a bit of hallucinated information from Gemini—which would be bad all on its own—turns out to have not even come from Gemini at all. Sure, AI […]
AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius
Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have deciphered yet another scroll carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. The scroll—designated PHerc. 172—is one of nearly 2,000 carbonized scrolls and charred papyrus fragments found in the lost Roman town of Herculaneum in 1750, and one of three […]
New AI Reasoning Model Rivaling OpenAI Trained on Less Than $50 in Compute
It is becoming increasingly clear that AI language models are a commodity tool, as the sudden rise of open source offerings like DeepSeek show they can be hacked together on a relatively small budget. A new entrant called S1 is once again reinforcing this idea, as researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington trained […]
Adobe Says Acrobat Can Simplify Complex Legal Contracts for You
Adobe, which loves to shove long-term subscriptions onto its customers, has a new add-on for Acrobat that it says will make it easier to read and understand legal contracts. Acrobat AI Assistant, as it is called, is supposed to look at a PDF contract and extract the most important details, as well as simplify them […]
California Wants AI Chatbots to Remind Users They Aren’t People
Even if chatbots successfully pass the Turing test, they’ll have to give up the game if they’re operating in California. A new bill proposed by California Senator Steve Padilla would require chatbots that interact with children to offer occasional reminders that they are, in fact, a machine and not a real person. The bill, SB […]
DeepSeek Gets an ‘F’ in Safety From Researchers
Usually when large language models are given tests, achieving a 100% success rate is viewed as a massive achievement. That is not quite the case with this one: Researchers at Cisco tasked Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s headline-grabbing open-source model DeepSeek R1 with fending off 50 separate attacks designed to get the LLM to engage in […]
Anthropic Wants You to Use AI—Just Not to Apply for Its Jobs
In a comical case of irony, Anthropic, a leading developer of artificial intelligence models, is asking applicants to its open job roles to certify that they will not use AI in the application process. Anthropic develops Claude, a chatbot that is well-regarded for its friendly conversational tone and coding abilities. The company has raised nearly […]
Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
If you are tired of Google’s AI-powered search results leading you astray with poor information from bad sources, there is some good news. It turns out that if you include any expletives in your search query, Google will not return an AI Overview, as they are called, at the top of the results page. For […]
Books Written Without AI Can Now Receive New ‘Human Authored’ Certification
The Authors Guild, one of the largest associations of writers in America, is launching a new project to certify books that have been written by a human rather than a machine. The new “Human Authored” certification will help authors distinguish their work and let readers know what they are reading—and paying for—is something that was […]