AI

Google is about to make Gemini a core part of Workspaces—with price changes

New plans will be cheaper for those who want Gemini, pricier for those who don't. The Google Gemini logo. Credit: Google Google has added AI features to its regular Workspace accounts for...

AI could create 78 million more jobs than it eliminates by 2030—report

As AGI talk sparks job loss fears, new WEF report projects AI-driven net job...

You can love or hate AI, but it’s killed crappy 8GB versions of pricey PCs and Macs

Op-ed: AI has been a cure for $1,600 computers that start with 8GB of...

OpenAI defends for-profit shift as critical to sustain humanitarian mission

Elon Musk may be the last obstacle to stop OpenAI’s for-profit shift. Credit: Anadolu / Contributor...

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks. Credit: Benj...

OpenAI releases ChatGPT app for Windows

New Alt+Space shortcut puts OpenAI's assistant a key press away at all times. Credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft On Thursday, OpenAI released an early Windows version...

Adobe unveils AI video generator trained on licensed content

New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner permission. A screen capture from Adobe's promotional video of Firefly Video Model. Credit: Adobe On Monday,...

Reports: Tesla’s prototype Optimus robots were controlled by humans

But the prototypes used "artificial intelligence" to control their walking. A photo of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot prototype provided by Tesla for the "We Robot"...

Cloudflare moves to end free, endless AI scraping with one-click blocking

Cloudflare may charge an app store-like fee for its AI-scraping data marketplace. Cloudflare announced new tools Monday that it claims will help end the era of endless...

Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book and it’s freaking me out

NotebookLM's "Audio Summaries" show a more personable future for AI-generated content. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/minsweeper-ai-podcast-no-cover-800x450.jpg" alt="Hey, welcome back to "Talkin'<em>Minesweeper</em>," the podcast where AI hosts discuss a...

Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here

As AI deepfakes sow doubt in legitimate media, anyone can claim something didn't happen. Given the flood of photorealistic AI-generated images washing over social media...

Google rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android massesGoogle rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android massesGoogle rolls out voice-powered AI chat...

Gemini Live allows back-and-forth conversation, now free to all Android users. On Thursday, Google made Gemini Live, its voice-based AI chatbot feature, available for free to...

OpenAI’s new “reasoning” AI models are here: o1-preview and o1-mini

New o1 language model can solve complex tasks iteratively, count R's in "strawberry." OpenAI finally unveiled its rumored "Strawberry" AI language model on Thursday, claiming...

Roblox announces AI tool for generating 3D game worlds from text

New AI feature aims to streamline game creation on popular online platform. On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will...

New AI model “learns” how to simulate Super Mario Bros. from video footage

Despite limitations, "MarioVGG" makers think AI video could one day replace game engines. <img src="https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/MarioVGG_output_grid.gif" alt="At first glance, these AI-generated <em>Super Mario Bros. Last month, Google's...

New AI standards group wants to make data scraping opt-in

The Dataset Providers Alliance wants to make AI data licensing ethical. The first wave of major generative AI tools largely were trained on “publicly available”...

Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing

Llama2-70B failed to capture "complex context," but updated models might do better. As large language models have continued to rise in prominence, many users and...

ChatGPT hits 200 million active weekly users, but how many will admit using it?

Despite corporate prohibitions on AI use, people flock to the chatbot in record numbers. On Thursday, OpenAI said that ChatGPT has attracted over 200 million weekly active...

Gen AI Alexa to use Anthropic tech after it “struggled for words” with Amazon’s

Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic has been under investigation. The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily...