Meta has decided to not offer its upcoming multimodal AI model and future versions to customers in the European Union citing a lack of clarity from European regulators, according to a report by Axios. The models in question are designed to process not …
Continue reading "Meta will reportedly withhold multimodal AI models from the EU amid regulatory uncertainty"Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on a dataset that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission, a new investigation from Proof News has found. The dataset, which was created by a nonprof…
Continue reading "Apple, NVIDIA and Anthropic reportedly used YouTube transcripts without permission to train AI models"A hacking group leaked over a terabyte of confidential data from more than 10,000 Slack channels belonging to Disney, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The leaked information includes discussions about ad campaigns, computer code, details abo…
Continue reading "A hacking group reportedly leaked confidential data from thousands of Disney Slack channels."Later this year, millions of Apple devices will begin running Apple Intelligence, Cupertino’s take on generative AI that, among other things, lets people create images from text prompts. But some members of the creative community are unhappy about what…
Continue reading "Artists criticize Apple’s lack of transparency around Apple Intelligence data"Google’s greenhouse gas emissions spiked by nearly 50 percent in the last five years thanks to energy-guzzling data centers required to power artificial intelligence, according to the company’s 2024 Environmental Report released on Tuesday. The report,…
Continue reading "Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI"Midjourney, a popular AI-powered image generator, is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden despite saying that it would block users from doing so earlier this year ahead of the upcoming US presidential election.
When Engadget prompted the servi…
This is your periodic reminder that AI-powered chatbots still make up things and lie with all the confidence of a GPS system telling you that the shortest way home is to drive through the lake.
My reminder comes courtesy of Nieman Lab, which ran an exp…
The Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation’s oldest nonprofit newsroom that produces Mother Jones and Reveal sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court on Thursday for allegedly using its content to train AI models without consent or compensati…
Continue reading "The nation’s oldest nonprofit newsroom is suing OpenAI and Microsoft"If you’ve been dreaming about spending your summer whispering sweet nothings into the digital ears of one of the seductive ChatGPT voice assistants that OpenAI showed off last month, you’ll have to dream a little longer. On Tuesday, the company announc…
Continue reading "OpenAI has delayed its seductive ChatGPT voice assistants"OpenAI plans to block people from using ChatGPT in China, a country where its services aren’t officially available, but where users and developers access it via the company’s API anyway. Securities Times, a Chinese state-owned newspaper reported on Tue…
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