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Google is putting more restrictions on AI Overviews after it told people to put glue on pizza
Liz Reid, the Head of Google Search, has admitted that the company's search engine has returned some "odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews" after they rolled out to everyone in the US.
OpenAI’s new safety team is led by board members, including CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI has created a new Safety and Security Committee less than two weeks after the company dissolved the team tasked with protecting humanity from AI’s existential threats. This latest iteration will include two board members and CEO Sam Altman.
Elon Musk is reportedly planning an xAI supercomputer to power a better version of Grok
Musk recently presented plans for a ‘gigafactory of compute’ to investors, The Information reports. This would power a future, smarter version of Grok and require at least 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.
Microsoft's Azure AI Speech lets Truecaller users create an AI assistant with their own voice
Truecaller, a caller ID app that can block and record calls, has teamed up with Microsoft to give its users a way to create an AI assistant that uses their own voice.
Sure, why not: China built a chatbot based on Xi Jinping
China has developed a chatbot trained on the various thoughts and philosophies of President Xi Jinping. This bot was built using literature attributed to the leader.
Emory University awarded two students $10,000 for their AI study tool, then suspended them
Emory University is facing a lawsuit after suspending two students for their AI study tool that the school supported.
The DOJ makes its first known arrest for AI-generated CSAM
The US Department of Justice arrested a Wisconsin man last week for generating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material. As far as we know, this is the first case of its kind as the DOJ looks to establish a judicial precedent that exploitative materials are still harmful even when no children were used to create them.
Adobe Lightroom gets its own AI eraser tool
Adobe has launched Generative Remove, an AI tool for Lightroom.
Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI used her likeness without permission for its 'Sky' voice assistant
Actor Scarlett Johansson has accused OpenAI of copying her voice for one of the voice assisstants in ChatGPT despite denying the company permission to do so.
Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs will be available this fall
A gaggle of PC makers rolled out their first Copilot+ PCs on Monday, but they all run on Qualcomm silicon. Intel said today its first chips to support Copilot+ AI features, will arrive in the fall.
ASUS’ first Copilot+ PC locks when you walk away and unlocks when you return
ASUS isn’t sitting out the rush of AI-enhanced Copilot+ PCs. The company’s Vivobook S 15 has Windows AI features like memory assistant Recall, the image generator Cocreator, and several ASUS-exclusive AI apps.
Microsoft Surface and Copilot Event: Everything announced including new Surface laptops, Copilot+ PC and more
Microsoft revealed its grand vision of how to knit Windows and hardware more closely together and (surprise!) it's all rooted in AI. Here's everything the company announced at its Copilot and Surface event.
Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in
Just ahead of its Build conference, Microsoft unveiled Copilot+ PCs. These are a "new class of Windows PCs" that can handle some generative AI processes on-device rather than in the cloud.
The Yoga Slim 7x is Lenovo’s attempt at a MacBook Air
Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip, the Yoga Slim 7x looks and feels like its Lenovo's attempt at making a true rival to the MacBook Air.
Acer joins Microsoft, Dell and others in announcing a Copilot+ PC
Acer just announced the Swift 14 AI laptop, a computer with Microsoft Copilot built-in. This allows for conversational search, an explorable timeline and more.
Here are Dell’s five new Copilot+ PCs
Dell's first batch of Copilot+ PCs will include the Latitude 5455, Latitude 7455, Inspiron 14, Inspiron 14 Plus and the XPS 13 9345.
With Recall, Microsoft is using AI to fix Windows' eternally broken search
At its Build 2024 conference, Microsoft unveiled Rewind, a new feature that aims to make local Windows PC searches as quick and effective as web searches. Similar to third-party apps like Rewind, Microsoft’s Recall uses AI to retrieve virtually anything you’ve seen on your PC.
RIP ChatGPT's knockoff Scarlett Johansson voice [2023 — 2024]
OpenAI is removing an AI voice from ChatGPT that many believe sounds like Scarlett Johansson. The company didn't give a clear explanation for the decision.
UK's AI Safety Institute easily jailbreaks major LLMs
Researchers found that LLMs were easily to jailbreak and can produce harmful outputs.
Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models
Slack trains machine-learning models on user messages, files and other content without explicit permission. The training is opt-out, meaning your private data will be leeched by default.