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Google used AI to accurately predict floods up to 7 days in advance
Google just announced that it successfully used AI-enhanced technology to successfully predict floods along riverlines up to seven days in advance. The average timeline was five days in advance.
Microsoft hires DeepMind cofounder to lead its new consumer AI division
Microsoft has a lone leader overseeing its consumer AI division for the first time. Google DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman is joining the company from rival Inflection AI, which will now transition into enterprise AI.
NVIDIA partners with Ubisoft to further develop its AI-driven NPCs
NVIDIA and Ubisoft have teamed up to bring the former’s AI-enhanced NPCs to games. These NEO NPCs are designed to interact in real time with players, the environment and other NPCs.
How to watch the Microsoft Surface, Windows AI and Copilot event
Microsoft is holding a live event on Thursday, March 21 at 12PM ET. You can stream it live and it’s likely to focus on new Surface products and AI innovations.
NVIDIA's GPUs powered the AI revolution. Its new Blackwell chips are up to 30 times faster
In a sign of just how dependent our modern AI revolution is on NVIDIA’s chips, the company’s press release describing its new Blackwell family of AI chips includes testimonials from seven CEOs who collectively lead companies worth trillions of dollars.
Microsoft is planning some more pre-Build AI announcements
Microsoft is planning to announce some news just ahead of Build. No prizes for guessing that it's all about the company's "AI vision."
Google I/O 2024 takes place on May 14
It'll soon be time to learn about what's next for the likes of Android, Pixel and Google's AI products. The company's I/O conference will take place on May 14.
EU regulators pass the planet's first sweeping AI regulations
The European Parliament has passed a major piece of legislation to govern AI use in the European Union. After the AI Act becomes law, some applications will be banned, while the likes of OpenAI and Google will have to abide by new rules.
Google DeepMind's new AI can follow commands inside 3D games it hasn't seen before
Google DeepMind has published new research into an AI system that's able to carry out tasks in 3D games it hasn't seen before. The team says it's the first time an agent has shown it's able to understand a wide range of gaming worlds and carry out tasks within them based on natural-language instructions.
Google’s Gemini will steer clear of election talk in India
Gemini, Google's AI chatbot, won't answer questions about questions about India's upcoming national elections, the company wrote in a blog post today. The restrictions are similar to the ones Google announced in December ahead of global elections in the US and the EU.
Elon Musk says xAI will open source its Grok chatbot this week
Elon Musk says that xAI will open source its Grok chatbot this week. This may be a dig at OpenAI, which Musk is suing and claims has become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft.
AI Marilyn Monroe adds to the list of dead celebrities digitally resurrected without consent
A company called Soul Machines debuted its "Digital Marilyn" AI chatbot of Marilyn Monroe at SXSW on International Women's Day. Soul Machines touts its ability to produce nuanced, realistic responses when engaging with fans. It comes at a time of increased scrutiny into the use of celebrities' digital likenesses without their consent.
Sam Altman is back on the OpenAI board. We still don’t know why he was fired.
In addition to Altman, OpenAI's new board now consists of three new members including a former Meta executive.
Microsoft's Copilot now blocks some prompts that generated violent and sexual images
Microsoft has blocked certain prompts in Copilot after it emerged the AI was generating violent imagery based on them.
Adobe brings Firefly generative AI to mobile for the first time in Express
Adobe is bringing generative AI features to its mobile apps for the first time. Firefly tools are now available in Adobe Express in beta on Android and iOS.
Facebook is using AI to supercharge the algorithm that recommends you videos
Facebook tested the new system with Reels and noticed that watch times went up significantly. So it will roll it out to the main Facebook feed and Groups as well.
A former Google engineer was arrested for allegedly stealing AI secrets for Chinese rivals
In an indictment that was unsealed in a federal California court, prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national who started working at Google in 2019, of uploading trade secrets from his Google-issued laptop to personal cloud storage accounts.
Microsoft may debut its first 'AI PCs' later this month
Microsoft may debut its first 'AI PCs' later this month. According to a report, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will support new AI functions that are slated to hit Windows 11 later this year.
Adobe’s latest AI experiment generates music from text
This week, Adobe revealed an experimental audio AI tool to join its image-based ones in Photoshop. Described by the company as “an early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool,” Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control can create music from text prompts, which it can then fine-tune.
UK government wants to use AI to cut civil service jobs
The UK government is piloting two AI tools that could help with routine tasks and responses.