On Tuesday, OpenAI released Sora 2, the latest version of its video and audio generation tool that it promised would be the “most powerful imagination engine ever built.” Less than a day into its release, it appears the imaginations of most people are dominated by copyrighted material and existing intellectual property. In tandem with the […]
Amazon’s ‘Neflix for AI’ Plans to ‘Reconstruct’ Lost Orson Welles Film With Slop
Orson Welles’ 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons has a complicated legacy—both considered one of the greatest films of all time and a complete mess that saw the iconic director’s vision stifled by his studio and the original cut destroyed. Somehow, the AI guys have decided that’s their signal to get involved. According to The Hollywood […]
Amazon Throws Money at ‘Netflix of AI’
Amazon poured more than $1 billion into its streaming series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, only for it to get a pretty tepid reception. So Amazon appears to be going for a new approach to streaming content: If you think you can do better, prove it. According to a report from […]
OpenAI Warns You Not to Buy Its Fake Stock
OpenAI has a message for anyone who thinks they’re about to cash in on the AI boom by buying a new “OpenAI token” on Robinhood: Don’t. But in a chaotic turn, Elon Musk just suggested that even the company’s real equity might be an illusion. The maker of ChatGPT, in a rare public warning posted […]
Free Lunch Is Over for the AI That Broke the Web
The foundational deal of the modern web, a handshake agreement that powered two decades of search and content, is officially dead. Cloudflare just put a price on scraping the internet, and it’s coming for artificial intelligence’s free lunch. Almost 30 years ago, two Stanford grad students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, built Google on a […]
Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t just want Meta to lead in the field of artificial intelligence. He wants to build the AI that leads you. In a memo to employees viewed by Gizmodo on June 30, the Meta CEO announced the creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, a major reorganization of the company’s AI efforts under a single, […]
OpenAI Reportedly Shuts Down for a Week as Zuck Poaches Its Top Talent
The war for artificial intelligence is getting personal. In recent days, after multiple OpenAI researchers left the company for Meta, one remaining employee publicly broke down. “Not too many people outside the company know how talented and hardcore they are,” Cheng Lu, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, posted on X on June […]
CEOs Are Quietly Telling Us the Truth: AI Is Replacing You
The fear is real. In meetings, Slack chats, and after-work drinks, one question is quietly eating away at millions of employees: Will AI take my job? In public, CEOs like to sound reassuring. They say generative AI will “enhance productivity” or “streamline operations.” But when you actually read what they’re telling their own employees, or […]
AI Gets a Lot Better at Debating When It Knows Who You Are, Study Finds
A new study shows that GPT-4 reliably wins debates against its human counterparts in one-on-one conversations—and the technology gets even more persuasive when it knows your age, job, and political leanings. Researchers at EPFL in Switzerland, Princeton University, and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy paired 900 study participants with either a human debate partner […]
Amazon Follows Microsoft in Retreat From Ambitious AI Data Center Plans
The number of tech giants paring back on their AI data center plans rises to two. According to banks Wells Fargo and TD Cowen, Amazon has paused negotiations on some co-location data center deals, primarily in Europe. The news comes shortly after several reports have indicated Microsoft has paused or cancelled some of its plans. […]