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DOJ warns AI hiring and productivity tools can violate anti-discrimination law
Companies may unfairly exclude people with disabilities.
Google’s AI Test Kitchen lets you experiment with its natural language model
Chat with LaMDA 2 or ask it to teach you things.
Kendrick Lamar's latest music video includes deepfakes of Will Smith and Kanye
Nipsey Hussle and Kobe Bryant also make AI-based appearances.
SoundCloud buys an AI music company to help discover hidden gems
Musiio could help you find great tracks before they become hits.
The Pentagon's new AI chief is a former Lyft executive
Craig Martell will guide the Defense Department through uncharted territory.
Panera will test an AI coffee system from the makers of the Flippy burger bot
Miso Robotics' CookRight Coffee is designed to help restaurants run more efficiently.
Google Lens can now search images and text at the same time
Multisearch opens up the possibility for more complicated queries.
Google will use AI to better detect and address personal crisis searches
The company is trying to surface more relevant resources.
Otter's AI now spares you the pain of summarizing meetings
People won't have to wonder what they missed
LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders form AI startup to help humans talk to computers
Inflection AI also has a DeepMind vet as its chief scientist.
AI discovery could advance the treatment of spinal cord injuries
The technology could eliminate scar tissue that prevents recovery.
Qualcomm's X70 5G modem has an AI processor to improve signal strength
It will arrive in commercial devices in late 2022.
Apple will give Siri a less gendered voice option in iOS 15.4
The company's AI assistant will soon be more diverse.
You can’t copyright AI-created art, according to US officials
The USCO says copyrighted works 'must be created by a human being.'
QAnon founder may have been identified thanks to machine learning
Researchers believe two men were the primary authors of posts attributed to Q.
Two more AI ethics researchers follow Timnit Gebru out of Google
One of the departing employees said she was "tired" of working at the tech giant.
DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman leaves Google
He’s joining venture capital firm Greylock Partners.
