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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 all Android users. The feature...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed to explain recent changes to safety efforts. OpenAI is facing increasing pressure to prove it's not hiding AI risks after...

Next-gen Intel Core Ultra chips with boosted GPU and NPU are coming in September

Lunar Lake will be Intel's response to Ryzen AI and Snapdragon X Elite chips. Intel announced today that it plans to launch its next-generation Core Ultra...

Nothing’s new AI widget is trying to make its CFO a news star

Its news app is available on all Nothing and CMF handsets, including the new Phone (2a) Plus. Nothing has a new smartphone—the Phone (2a) Plus—nearly...

Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO

Steve Huffman says companies must pay to scrape Reddit data. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the...

“AI toothbrushes” are coming for your teeth—and your data

App-connected toothbrushes bring new privacy concerns to the bathroom. One of the most unlikely passengers on the AI gadgets hype train is the toothbrush. With claims of...

We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands

Gen-3 Alpha produces wild and whimsical results. Here's what it cooked up for us. In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha....

Google, its cat fully escaped from bag, shows off the Pixel 9 Pro weeks early

Upcoming phone is teased with an AI breakup letter to "the same old thing." After every one of its house-brand phones, and even its new...

OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, which will replace GPT-3.5 in ChatGPT

Lower-cost AI language model will be free for ChatGPT users. On Thursday, OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4o mini, a new, smaller version of its latest GPT-4o AI...

Can you do better than top-level AI models on these basic vision tests?

Abstract analysis that is trivial for humans often stymies GPT-4o, Gemini, and Sonnet. In the last couple of years, we've seen amazingadvancements in AI systems when it...

Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

Scientists struggle to define consciousness, AI or otherwise. Advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between uniquely human behaviors and those...

OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny

Microsoft gives up non-voting observer board role; Apple rethinks a planned similar position. Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI's board, while...

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention. OpenAI announced its Mac desktop app for ChatGPT with a lot of...

AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

Even unlisted YouTube videos are used to train AI, watchdog warns. Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted...

The telltale words that could identify generative AI text

New paper counts "excess words" that started appearing more often in the post-LLM era. Thus far, even AI companies have had trouble coming up with...