AI

How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content

Specialized garbage-filled captions are invisible to humans, confounding to AI. Never go up against a YouTuber when transcripts are on the line! Credit: Getty Images If you've been paying careful attention to...

The questions the Chinese government doesn’t want DeepSeek AI to answer

Study of over 1,000 "sensitive prompts" finds "brittle" protection that's easy to jailbreak How deep...

Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses

FBI claims GameOn founder forged six years of financial records in brazen scheme. Credit: Feodora Chiosea...

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...

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...

School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules

Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations. Credit: Getty Images | Andriy Onufriyenko A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts...

OpenAI accused of trying to profit off AI model inspection in court

How do you get an AI model to confess what's inside? Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Since ChatGPT became an instant hit roughly two years...

Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run

Stock index switch-up reflects symbolic market shift as chip industry refocuses around AI. Credit: rasslava via Getty Images On Friday, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced that AI chipmaker Nvidia...

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”...