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...

What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team?

Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups. In July last year, OpenAI announced the formation of a new research team that...

OpenAI will use Reddit posts to train ChatGPT under new deal

Reddit has been eager to sell data from user posts. Stuff posted on Reddit is getting incorporated into ChatGPT, Reddit and OpenAI announced on Thursday. The new...

OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

Reddit gets access to OpenAI’s tech for building AI features, and OpenAI gets real-time access to Reddit posts that feed into ChatGPT. OpenAI has signed...

Google’s Gemini AI plan for schools promises extra data protection and privacy

Google is also improving Chromebook accessibility with features like a better magnifier that follows along as you read. Google will soon offer schools access to Gemini...

Google strikes back at OpenAI with “Project Astra” AI agent prototype

AI model updates galore at Google I/O, including 2M context window, Imagen 3, Veo, and more. Just one day after OpenAI revealed GPT-4o, which it bills...

AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact. Google's Gemini AI often just feels like a chatbot built into a text-input...

Google is “reimagining” search in “the Gemini era” with AI Overviews

What's the best pilates studio within walking distance that has new member Search is still important to Google, but soon it will change. At its...

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

Anonymous chatbot that mystified and frustrated experts was OpenAI's latest model. On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as "gpt-chatbot"...

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

New GPT-4o model can sing a bedtime story, detect facial expressions, read emotions. On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for "omni"), a major new AI model that...

Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks

Maximum Diffusion Reinforcement Learning focuses training on end states, not process. Reinforcement-learning algorithms in systems like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can work wonders, but they...

OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch

The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached. OpenAI is eventually coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Search....

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating...

OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections

OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector. As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly...

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for...