Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 10
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans? AI + ML29 Jan 2023 | 47
Tesla's Autopilot is losing out to Ford, GM in self-driving tech Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 58
Software glitch revokes copyright protection for AI-generated comic book So is AI artwork copyrightable? Not quite as case remains up in the air AI + ML25 Jan 2023 | 16
Scaling up impossible heights Successfully using serverless SaaS to reap the value of transactional data Webinar
ChatGPT talks its way through Wharton MBA, medical exams This perhaps says more about the tests than the artificial intelligence on display AI + ML24 Jan 2023 | 40
Microsoft can't stop itself blowing billions on OpenAI Embrace, extend ... extinguish, but whom or what this time? AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 9
Universities offered software to sniff out ChatGPT-written essays Feature Teachers hopefully get their hands on the tool within months AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 37
Rentokil uses AI rat recognition to plot extermination in real time You know where they eat, where they sleep, where they live... then figure out how to whack them AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 24
Publisher halts AI article assembly line after probe In brief Plus: Academics debate citing ChatGPT as research co-author; Getty Images sues Stability AI AI + ML23 Jan 2023 | 12
Mentally scarred: Kenyan workers taught ChatGPT to recognize offensive text Spare a thought for the workers who read the worst content scraped from the internet to keep you safe AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 16
OpenAI's ChatGPT is a morally corrupting influence No principles or virtues, people accepting everything it says – this bot is perfect for political life AI + ML20 Jan 2023 | 85
Adobe: Take user data to train generative AI models? We'd never do that Controversial policy change forces chief product officer to speak out AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 13
Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories Worse still, human editors appear not to have caught the mistakes AI + ML19 Jan 2023 | 41
Tesla faked self-driving demo, Autopilot engineer testifies Elon should stick to throwing rocks at his truck windows AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 46
AI may finally cure us of our data fetish Column There's still a place in the world for good old-fashioned human intelligence AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 26
Will 2023 be the year of dynamite disinfo deepfakes, cooked up by rogue states? And if so, what are we gonna do about it? AI + ML18 Jan 2023 | 16
Writing tool from AI21 Labs won't do all the hard work for you Wordtune Spices is more like an AI-powered Grammarly AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 2
Microsoft to offer ChatGPT-as-a-service from Azure real soon now Addition of the chatbot everyone's talking about, and to, comes as Azure OpenAI goes GA AI + ML17 Jan 2023 | 19
Midjourney, DeviantArt face lawsuit over AI-made art Updated Lawyer known for GitHub Copilot case to argue artists' legal struggle AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 57
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment Did Pathfinder get lost in Intel's sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse?
China stops recognizing online study, orders kids back to foreign unis Asia In Brief PLUS: NTT’s haptics advance; Australia cracks down on influencers; Korean Uni websites hit by Chinese protestors; and more
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans
AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court, startup claims In Brief Plus: How much would you pay for ChatGPT? And British AI drug biz gets snapped up for half a billion AI + ML16 Jan 2023 | 26
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy AI + ML13 Jan 2023 | 155
Scientists tricked into believing fake abstracts written by ChatGPT were real Study warns tool could be used to create fake research papers for paper mills AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 22
Meta develops AI targeting system to show housing ads to wider range of users Part of a settlement with US Department of Justice after ads discrimination case AI + ML11 Jan 2023 | 7
Microsoft may be counting out $10 billion to inject into OpenAI Could ChatGPT be Google's nemesis? AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 15
China follows through on plan to ban deepfake tech Synthetic media undermines national security, says internet regulator AI + ML10 Jan 2023 | 8
OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT In brief Plus: Apple using fake AI voices to help indie publishers release audiobooks AI + ML09 Jan 2023 | 32
Adobe will use your work to train its AI algorithms unless you opt out Content analysis system scans data stored on its Creative Cloud services AI + ML07 Jan 2023 | 27
Microsoft’s Nadella: Tech is in for a rough two years Slowing demand and economic pressures are a drag, but AI waits at the end of the rainbow AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 48
Cybercrooks are telling ChatGPT to create malicious code Chatbot might let unskilled criminals launch attacks, if the code works AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 67
Mobileye touts bright future while Nvidia, Qualcomm win over automakers Analysis Objects in mirror are closer than they appear AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 1
AI conference and NYC's educators ban papers done by ChatGPT Is machine text plagiarism? AI + ML06 Jan 2023 | 18
Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1
No, AI can't tell if you've got COVID-19 by listening to your coughs UK study pours cold water on claims after government already spent money trying to build an app AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 16
Microsoft chases Google with ChatGPT-powered Bing Software behemoth infusing search engine with AI machines that go Bing! AI + ML04 Jan 2023 | 31
Man wrongly jailed by facial recognition, lawyer claims Suspected purse snatcher snatched 'in error' AI + ML03 Jan 2023 | 54
University students recruit AI to write essays for them. Now what? Feature Teachers need to work harder to get students to write and think for themselves AI + ML27 Dec 2022 | 144
Alphabet reshuffles to meet ChatGPT threat In brief Plus: ArtStation cracks down on rebellious creators and lame-duck AI laws in the US on the cards AI + ML25 Dec 2022 | 70
Since humans can't manage fusion, the US puts millions into AI-powered creation Some terms and condition may apply AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 66
Tesla driver blames full-self-driving software for eight-car Thanksgiving Day pile up US investigators probe Bay Bridge multi-car smash AI + ML23 Dec 2022 | 198
Lawyer mom barred from Rockettes show by facial recognition tech No Girl Scout cookies for you AI + ML21 Dec 2022 | 90
OpenAI gets to the Point•E with open source text-to-3D model Designers' jobs to crash or GLIDE AI + ML21 Dec 2022 |
OpenAI predicts biz can break a billion in revs by 2024 In Brief Plus: Suomi security warnings and artists rebel against AI on Artstation AI + ML19 Dec 2022 | 6
Top tip: If you want more of that VC money, stick some AI in your chips Analysis Helps if you're teetering on the edge AI + ML16 Dec 2022 | 3
Breast cancer screening AI app OK'd by watchdog When putting software on trial is a good thing AI + ML15 Dec 2022 |
Voice assistants failed because they serve their makers more than they help users Opinion Siri? Google? Alexa? Could ChatGPT save us from this data harvesting nightmare? AI + ML14 Dec 2022 | 172
Apple taps brake on self-driving cars, now aims for 2026 In brief Plus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model AI + ML13 Dec 2022 | 26
ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick, and that's a terrible look for AI Opinion It's very good, and that's very bad AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 158
China bans deepfakes created without permission or for evil 'Deep synthesis service providers' otherwise free to create AI-generated humans in line with socialist values AI + ML12 Dec 2022 | 3
GitHub adds admin controls to Copilot, paints 'Business' on the side, doubles price Ah, the enterprise way AI + ML09 Dec 2022 | 22
Samsung, Korean IT giant Naver to build AI hyperscale chip Meanwhile, Samsung appoints its first female president AI + ML06 Dec 2022 |
You get the internet you deserve Comment The race to the bottom is on and the IoS is about to get S'ier AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 106
Adobe to sell AI-generated images on its stock photo platform Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists AI + ML06 Dec 2022 | 5
Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT as 'substantially harmful' for coding issues High error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans AI + ML05 Dec 2022 | 65
OpenAI opens doors to ChatGPT, another AI to fill the world with kinda-true stuff In brief Plus: DeepMind beats humans at Stratego AI + ML03 Dec 2022 | 26
Google frees nifty ML image-compression model... but it's for JPEG-XL Yep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium AI + ML02 Dec 2022 | 38
Processing data... in space: AWS powers Earth observation satellite payload Orbiting sat suite includes machine learning models, cloud-managed edge runtime AI + ML30 Nov 2022 | 2
Google Health licenses its AI breast cancer screening tool to a medical biz iCAD will have five years to bring a product to market AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 4
Japanese convenience store chain opens outlet staffed by avatars and robots Like Clippy, but for snacks, booze, and cigarettes AI + ML29 Nov 2022 | 55
US Justice Dept reportedly checking AI rent-pricing biz RealPage Company accused of allowing landlords to collude and artificially inflate rental prices AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 5
Spooky entanglement revealed between quantum AI and the BBC Opinion QC: Still not actually useful, but it's increasingly intriguing AI + ML28 Nov 2022 | 34
AI giant Baidu shrugs off US chip export restrictions as having 'little impact' Says sanctions could even accelerate China's drive for silicon self-sufficiency AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 9
India seeks global standards to stop AI harming humanity Takes over presidency of global AI group, and uses G20 leadership to flex manufacturing muscle AI + ML24 Nov 2022 | 3
Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor The reason your morning drive sucks is because of you, the impulsive human behind the wheel AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 59
Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13
Tesla reports two more fatal Autopilot accidents to the NHTSA Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert AI + ML16 Nov 2022 | 53
Feed the AI fire with centralization An efficient GPU compute management platform is critical to furthering AI experimentation, says Run:ai Sponsored Feature
Intel says it can sort the living human beings from the deepfakes in real time Claims to be able to spot imposters in live video feeds within milliseconds AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 11
Waymo turns its driverless cars into roving weather stations Maybe now San Francisco will allow it to operate in the fog and rain? AI + ML15 Nov 2022 | 9
Hey, GitHub, can you create an array compare function without breaking the GPL? In brief Plus: Amazon debuts AI warehouse robot, Midjourney releases latest ML art generator AI + ML12 Nov 2022 | 81
GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit Opinion It won't be the last AI + ML11 Nov 2022 | 91
Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful' AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10
With AI, you need to see the bigger hardware and software picture Sensible use of CPUs and GPUs is the answer to scaling up accelerated compute, says Intel Sponsored Feature
Chinese employers sought a million hard core AI techies in five years Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 2
Tired: Data scientists. Wired: Data artists Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info AI + ML08 Nov 2022 | 28
OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub hit with lawsuit over Copilot In brief Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more AI + ML07 Nov 2022 | 10
Watchdog urged to sniff out any collusion, deception in rent-setting algorithms Things could get real for RealPage real fast AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
Machine learning research in acoustics could open up multimodal metaverse Jury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 10
A next-gen AI protein folder that could help science? Meta's good for something Faster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB AI + ML02 Nov 2022 | 11
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties to Chinese rival Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too AI + ML01 Nov 2022 | 6
Bumble open sources AI code to automatically blur NSFW photos In brief Plus: Why some manga and anime fans hate AI-generated art, and ex-Google boss funds AI students AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 26
Enterprises are rolling out more AI – to 'middling results' Businesses that achieve full-scale deployment don't always get the outcomes they hoped for, says Deloitte AI + ML31 Oct 2022 | 22
Privacy watchdog urges companies drop emotional analysis AI software 'They may not work yet, or indeed ever,' says ICO's deputy commissioner AI + ML29 Oct 2022 | 15
Tesla reportedly faces criminal probe into self-driving hype Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding AI + ML27 Oct 2022 | 84
Shutterstock partners with OpenAI to sell AI-generated stock images using DALL-E Getty Images is collaborating with generative AI startup BRIA AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 7
AI-driven creativity gives overpowered PCs something worthwhile to do, at last Column Take your desktop rig out for a proper run, turning words into images, 3D models and videos – if it can AI + ML26 Oct 2022 | 10
Human-replacing AI startups reach $1bn unicorn status In brief Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more AI + ML23 Oct 2022 | 3
Microsoft said to be in talks to invest more in OpenAI Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019 AI + ML21 Oct 2022 | 3
AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27
How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75
NASA AI shows slashing sulfur in shipping fuel cut air pollution at sea COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 9
YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 121
Self-driving tech startup values crash 81% in 2 years LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 24
Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6
Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art In brief Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode AI + ML16 Oct 2022 | 39
Just $10 to create an AI chatbot of a dead loved one Feature How software can help some grieve, perturb others AI + ML15 Oct 2022 | 60
AI recruitment software is 'automated pseudoscience', Cambridge study finds HR diversity claims via software are rot, according to boffins AI + ML13 Oct 2022 | 112
Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3
Samsung's Ukraine headquarters damaged by Russian missile strike R&D Center focuses on autonomous AI, otherwise known as On-Device AI AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 22