Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its silicon substrate. (credit: Microsoft | Benj Edwards) On Wednesday at the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced two custom chips designed for accelerating...
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Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move
Enlarge / The Microsoft Copilot logo. (credit: Microsoft) On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed “Microsoft Copilot.” The company also announced it will support OpenAI’s recently released GPTs, which are custom roles for its ChatGPT AI assistant. The rebranding move consolidates Bing Chat into Microsoft’s somewhat confusing “Copilot”...
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YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, YouTube announced it will soon implement stricter measures on realistic AI-generated content hosted by the service. “We’ll require creators to disclose when they’ve created altered or synthetic content that is realistic, including using AI tools,” the company wrote in a statement. The changes will roll out over the coming...
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Google’s C.E.O. Takes Another Turn on the Antitrust Witness Stand
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.
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What Google Argued to Defend Itself in Landmark Antitrust Trial
The tech giant, which is wrapping up its arguments in the federal monopoly trial, has framed itself as a good corporate citizen that has pushed innovation and helped consumers.
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How Microsoft’s Legal Legacy Shapes the Antitrust Case Against Google
Lawyers for the Justice Department and Google as well as the judge in a monthslong trial have invoked the landmark case against Microsoft from the 1990s.
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People think white AI-generated faces are more real than actual photos, study says
Enlarge / Eight images used in the study; four of them are synthetic. Can you tell which ones? (Answers at bottom of the article.) (credit: Nightingale and Farid (2022)) A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science on Monday found that AI-generated faces, particularly those representing white individuals, were perceived as more real than...
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Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior”
Enlarge Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug that has the potential to be maliciously exploited against cloud-based hosts. The flaw, affecting virtually all modern Intel CPUs, causes them to “enter a glitch state where the normal rules don’t apply,” Tavis Ormandy, one of several security researchers inside Google who...
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AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study
Enlarge / A file photo of Tropical Storm Fiona as seen in a satellite image from 2022. (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the peer-reviewed journal Science published a study that shows how an AI meteorology model from Google DeepMind called GraphCast has significantly outperformed conventional weather forecasting methods in predicting global weather conditions up to...
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Teens with “digital bazookas” are winning the ransomware war, researcher laments
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) What do Boeing, an Australian shipping company, the world’s largest bank, and one of the world’s biggest law firms have in common? All four have suffered cybersecurity breaches, most likely at the hands of teenage hackers, after failing to patch a critical vulnerability that security experts have warned of for more...