Enlarge / Still from a Chinese social media video featuring two people imitating imperfect AI-generated video outputs. (credit: BiliBili) It’s no secret that despite significant investment from companies like OpenAI and Runway, AI-generated videos still struggle to achieve convincing realism at times. Some of the most amusing fails end up on social media, which has...
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California A.I. Bill Is Tweaked
Silicon Valley companies still worry that state lawmakers are jumping the gun on regulating a still-unproven technology.
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Bowling, Selfies and the ‘Dougie’: Biden Woos Influencers at the White House
For its first conference on the creator economy, the Biden administration celebrated social media creators. The president lauded them as a “breakthrough in how we communicate.”
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Cisco to Cut About 7% of Staff in Second Round of Job Layoffs
The cuts could amount to about 6,000 jobs for the San Jose, Calif., maker of computer networking technology.
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California A.I. Bill Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley
A California state senator, Scott Wiener, wants to stop the creation of dangerous A.I. But critics say he is jumping the gun.
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Google’s threat team confirms Iran targeting Trump, Biden, and Harris campaigns
Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Google’s Threat Analysis Group confirmed Wednesday that they observed a threat actor backed by the Iranian government targeting Google accounts associated with US presidential campaigns, in addition to...
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Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. (credit: BEAST / X) On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language models, Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini, available to subscribers of his social media platform X (formerly Twitter)....
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Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime
Enlarge (credit: Moor Studio via Getty Images) On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers ChatGPT. During testing, Sakana found that its system began unexpectedly attempting to modify its own...
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U.S. Considers Breaking Up Google to Address Search Monopoly
The Justice Department and state attorneys general are discussing various scenarios to remedy Google’s dominance in online search, including a breakup of the company.
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Google Unveils Pixel 9 Phones to Beat Apple’s iPhone
The internet giant unveiled the next generation of Pixel phones, headphones and watches to stand out in a hardware market that has mostly ignored it.