AI

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

Google barrels ahead with a push into AI systems that take action for you. Credit: Google On Wednesday, Google unveiled Gemini 2.0, the next generation of its AI-model family, starting with an experimental release...

Itch.io platform briefly goes down due to “AI-driven” anti-phishing report

Domain registrar failed to respond after offending content was taken down. Losing your domain is...

OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier

OpenAI's full "o1" AI model is "smaller and faster," and ChatGPT Pro users get...

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

OpenAI and Palmer Luckey's weapons company sign agreement to explore lethal drone defense for...

Google’s plan to keep AI out of search trial remedies isn’t going very well

Judge: AI will likely play “larger role” in Google search remedies as market shifts. Credit: SOPA...

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...

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...

New Geekbench AI benchmark can test the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Performance test comes out of beta as NPUs become standard equipment in PCs. Neural processing units (NPUs) are becoming commonplace in chips from Intel and...

Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime

Facing time constraints, Sakana's "AI Scientist" attempted to change limits placed by researchers. On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called...

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing

Woolf: "OpenAI just leaked the plot of Black Mirror's next season." On Thursday, OpenAI released the "system card" for ChatGPT's new GPT-4o AI model that details model...

Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines

De Kraker: "If OpenAI is right on the verge of AGI, why do prominent people keep leaving?" Over the past week, OpenAI experienced a significant...