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The Fearful Emergence of AI Drone Swarms in Warfare
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Researchers are applying artificial intelligence (AI) to lethal aircraft, raising questions about diminished human control in modern combat. Instead of...
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Detecting and Fighting Wildfires With AI
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Climate change conditions are fueling longer, more intense wildfires, making it crucial to detect them earlier. Google is funding an...
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The NSCAI Says What the U.S. Strategy Should Be to Defend Itself and Win the Global AI Competition
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The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) has produced a 756-page report stating that the U.S. is in a...
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Meta and UMG Agree on Music for Meta’s Platforms, Signaling Discussions for AI-generated Music
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Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) have expanded their multi-year music licensing agreement to allow sharing of songs from UMG’s...
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Two AI Music Companies, Sued for Copyright Violations, Counter by Citing Taylor Swift’s Similar Use
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The music AI technology startups Suno and Udio both have AI-based music models, trained using copyrighted music. Their AI tools...
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Meta’s SAM 2 AI Can Now Identify Objects in Videos
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Meta has released SAM 2, a new AI model that can label and track objects in videos even as they...
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Nvidia Is Developing a Perceptive AI-powered Video Analysis System
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Nvidia is working to create an all-knowing AI powered video analysis system. This will allow the understanding of everything occurring...
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Researchers Think AIs and Lasers Might Help Us Talk to Aliens
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Recently, humanity has been actively searching for alien life. The SETI and METI efforts have not yet found any evidence...
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AI Investment Anxiety Blamed for Recent Technology Layoffs
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Global technology companies are reducing their workforces in order to invest more in artificial intelligence (AI). Layoffs.fyi reported that over...
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California Sugar-coats AI Laws to Mask AI Dangers and Protect Technology Companies
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According to Geoffrey Hinton, the "Godfather of AI," California was the birthplace of artificial intelligence (AI) 40 years ago and...
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Stop Grok from Feasting on Your Data
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X, Elon Musk's social media platform, is now feeding user posts to Grok, its generative AI chatbot. By default, X...
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AIs Repeatedly Trained on AI-generated Data Start Spewing Out Gibberish
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Large language models (LLMs) like those produced by OpenAI and Google need extensive training data to function. However, there are...
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UK’s Safeguarded AI Project Could Prevent AI Disasters
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Safeguarded AI is a UK government-funded project to incorporate safety measures into AI systems. It was created to use AI...
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The Washington Post Creates an AI Climate Chatbot to Answer Climate Change Questions
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A new AI chatbot, named Climate Answers, has been launched by The Washington Post, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to answer...
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U.S. Military is Upgrading Its Missiles with AI to Counter Small Drone Swarm Attacks
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The U.S. military is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to counter the growing threat of small...
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The Venerable Art of Manipulating Photographs to Rewrite History
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The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a significant impact on the ease and accessibility of image generation and...
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AI Companies Are Using Photos of Your Children Without Permission
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Human Rights Watch recently conducted an extensive review of AI training materials and found that images of children taken from...
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Some AI Chatbots Are Failing to Rapidly Integrate Current News and Facts
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According to some AI chatbots, President Biden is still seeking re-election, President Trump has not been shot, and Kamala Harris...
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AIs Can Discuss Preliminary Results to Improve Their Final Answer
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An AI experiment conducted by MIT and Google Brain researchers showed that several Large Language Models (LLMs) can debate their...
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The Documentary, “Eternal You,” Captures Unsettling Attempts by AI Creators to Artificially Resurrect the Dead
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Death has created a wealthy industry around a vulnerable population, who are open to products that claim to offer emotional...
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Adaptive Radar Takes a Giant AI Leap
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Adaptive radar systems have been a key technology used for decades to detect, locate, and track moving objects. However, the...
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Apple Swears It Is Innocent and Did Not Use YouTube Data for Its AI Training
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A recent Wired report disclosed that Apple, NVIDIA, and other technology companies utilized hundreds of YouTube videos for AI training....
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NASA Is Testing AI on the Mars Rovers Now for Future Missions
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NASA is using the Perseverance Mars rover to test artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help the rover autonomously find and...
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The EU’s and Brazil’s Data Regulations Have Disrupted Meta’s AI Plans
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Meta's AI development in the EU and Brazil is being scaled back or suspended due to regulatory scrutiny over its...
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Drone Racing Helps Train AI to Pilot Spacecraft
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has partnered with Delft University of Technology's (TU Delft) Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory to train...
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Live2Diff Can Transform a Live Video Stream into a Stylized or Fantasized Video in Real-time
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) system called Live2Diff can transform live video streams into stylized content in real-time, with the...
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Counting Blossoms Allows AI to Predict Crop Harvests Months Ahead of Time
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Scientists have trained an AI algorithm to count flowers on fruit trees using smartphone images. The system is being trained...
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Neural Networks Move Closer to Making Decisions Like Humans
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The average human makes 35,000 decisions every day, from mundane tasks to important choices. But, how are those decisions are...
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Many AI Companies Have Trained Their AI Models With Stolen Content
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Investigations by Proof News and Wired revealed that major AI firms have been using YouTube transcripts from nearly 175,000 videos...
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U.S. Senators Introduce a Bipartisan Bill to Use Watermarks to Protect Copyrighted Works From AI Abuse
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A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has proposed the COPIED Act. This act, led by Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, attempts...
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Europeans Want Their AI Made in Europe
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European governments are uncomfortable with the concentration of power in the technology industry. They fear that European companies will become...
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AI Advertising Fraud Scams Are Increasing in Quantity and Cunning
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Generative AI has contributed to a 23% increase in new fraud schemes in 2023. This growth led to a 58%...
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Russia Uses AI and Sleeper Websites to Spread Fake News Through Google
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On July 1, 2024 a story was published on the Vérité Cachée, a pop-up French website, claiming that Olena Zelenska,...
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“Apple Intelligence” Is a Marketing Scheme to Usurp AI by Fabricating Authorship
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Apple made overt efforts to refrain from using the term "AI" during its 2024 WWDC meeting. In fact, Apple finally...
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Small Business Owners Value Employees With AI Experience
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Small business owners believe that employees with AI knowledge can save them time and money. This is based on the...
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AI Can Reproduce Viewed Images from Recordings of Brain Activity Alone
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The researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands made a groundbreaking discovery by utilizing an advanced mind-reading AI system. In...
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Apple Faces Criticism for Its Lack of AI Data Collecting and Training Transparency
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Apple has been slow in embracing AI and prefers to call its model "Apple Intelligence" rather than artificial intelligence to...
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An EU Legal Filing Accuses Meta of Collecting Personal Data for AI Training Without Consent
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The None Of Your Business (NYOB) group filed complaints in 11 EU countries about Meta's plans to train AI models...
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An Open Letter Asks AI Companies to Support Employees Who Voice AI Concerns
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A group of current and former workers from leading AI firms like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic wrote an open...
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AI Chatbots Could Increase Social Interaction and Support for Dementia Patients
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Researchers at Kent's School of Computing, working together with psychologists, have co-designed an AI tool, MindTalker, to enhance the lives...
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Time Magazine Agrees to Sell Journalistic Data to OpenAI
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Time Magazine and OpenAI entered an agreement to train its future AI models using Time Magazine's vast archive of journalistic...
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AI Is Extremely Effective in Diagnosing Heart Disease
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Researchers from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford have conducted a study on the potential of...
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Quora’s Poe Chatbot Is Ignoring Paywall Restrictions by Giving Protected Articles to Its Users
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The chatbot platform Poe, owned by the question-and-answer site Quora, lets users download HTML files of articles from paywalled journalistic...
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Perplexity’s $1 Billion AI Chatbot Stands Accused of Dishonesty and Content Theft
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A chatbot named Perplexity AI has caused serious controversy because of allegations of its alleged dishonesty and content theft. Critics...
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Japan Chooses Few AI Regulations to Rapidly Boost Its AI Industry
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Japanese regulators are easing restrictions to attract both investment and leading AI companies to their borders. They hope to be...
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Nuclear-powered AI Systems With Defensive Weapons Could Become a Military Standard
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts that powerful AI systems will be located on military bases, powered by nuclear energy...
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Nvidia Says It Will Release a New Generation of AI Chips Annually
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Nvidia recently earned $14 billion in profit in one quarter thanks to AI chips. It is now planning to design...
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AI Workflows That Work for Your Artists
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AI is sometimes seen as a double-edged sword in creative workflows, particularly in game development, because it offers efficiency and...
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DARPA’s ACE AI Flies a F-16D Fighter Jet in a Dogfight Against Human Pilots
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A DARPA Air Combat Evolution (ACE) AI model took part in a dogfight with a human-piloted fighter jet using the...
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Seoul Was the Site of a High-profile International AI Safety Summit
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The AI Seoul Summit was held on May 21st and 22nd, 2024. The participating countries pledged to collaborate in setting...
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