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...

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 Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI's board, while...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...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users

It supports pretty much everything but API calls. OpenAI's official ChatGPT app for macOS is now available to all users for the first time, provided they're running...

Researchers describe how to tell if ChatGPT is confabulating

Finding out whether the AI is uncertain about facts or phrasing is the key. It's one of the world's worst-kept secrets that large language models...

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

Safe Superintelligence, Inc. seeks to safely build AI far beyond human capability. On Wednesday, former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced he is forming a...

Runway’s latest AI video generator brings giant cotton candy monsters to life

New Gen-3 Alpha AI video generator can create detailed humans and surreal situations. Enlarge / Screen capture of a Runway Gen-3 Alpha video generated with the prompt...

Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all

Recall will go through Windows Insider pipeline like any other Windows feature. Enlarge / Recall is part of Microsoft's Copilot+ PC program. Microsoft will be delaying its controversial...