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Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips.” (credit: Midjourney) Despite recently calling for a six-month pause in the development of powerful AI models, Twitter CEO Elon Musk recently purchased roughly 10,000 GPUs for a generative AI project within Twitter, reports Business Insider, citing people familiar...

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) By now, you’ve probably heard about a new AI-based password cracker that can compromise your password in seconds by using artificial intelligence instead of more traditional methods. Some outlets have called it “terrifying,” “worrying,” “alarming,” and “savvy.” Other publications have fallen over themselves to report that the tool...

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images via Getty) Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to emails viewed by the Financial Times. UMG, which controls about a third of the global music market, has become increasingly concerned about...

(Black PR Wire) COSTA MESA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– A team of students from Alabama State University (ASU) took the top prize for their innovative credit education program to reach their peers in the first-ever #IYKYK Hackathon (If You Kn…

Enlarge / An AI-generated and human composited image of “Wolverine programming on a computer.” (credit: Benj Edwards / Midjourney) Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That’s what a developer that goes by “BioBootloader” did by creating Wolverine, a program that can give Python programs “regenerative...

Enlarge / A screenshot of the “Generative Agents” demo where 25 AI-controlled characters live out life in a town called Smallville. (credit: J.S. Park, J.C. O’Brien, C.J. Cai, M. Morris, P. Liang, M.S. Bernstein) A group of researchers at Stanford University and Google have created a miniature RPG-style virtual world similar to The Sims, where...

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images) China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by ChatGPT in the US. Hours after tech giant Alibaba followed its peers SenseTime and Baidu with the launch of a ChatGPT-like bot,...

Enlarge / iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) Last week, Apple released iOS and iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS Ventura 13.3.1 to patch two actively exploited security vulnerabilities and fix other small bugs. Today it’s following those up with iOS and iPadOS 15.7.5, macOS Monterey 12.6.5, and macOS Big Sur 11.7.6 to patch those same vulnerabilities...

Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) The analysts at IDC have released their worldwide PC sales numbers for the first quarter of 2023, and the news isn’t good for PC companies. IDC says that all the companies combined shipped 56.9 million PCs in Q1 of 2023, down 29 percent from Q1...

Enlarge / An AI-generated image from an #aicinema still series called “Vinyl Vengeance” by Julie Wieland, created using Midjourney. (credit: Julie Wieland / Midjourney) Since last year, a group of artists have been using an AI image generator called Midjourney to create still photos of films that don’t exist. They call the trend “AI cinema.”...