Artificial Intelligence

On Wednesday, Reddit announced it was updating its privacy settings in an effort to standardize ad personalization and account visibility controls. Specifically, it’s doing away with the option to disable ad personalization based on users’ Reddit behavior. Unnamed “select countries” will still have the option to opt out, the company …

Data meshes have been discussed for some time. Data can be accessed without first being moved to a data lake, which is a large-scale central repository, or a data warehouse, which is an enterprise system used for analyzing data from a variety of sources. Big names in the industry like …

On Wednesday, Adobe released Photoshop for the web to everyone subscribed to a paid Adobe Creative Cloud plan. Firefly-powered AI tools like generative fill and generative expand are now available in the web beta after almost two years of development. The firm claimed that the web-based toolbar’s tools are organized …

While API access may be the norm for the most popular language models, open models (in the broadest sense of the term) are increasingly in demand. French artificial intelligence startup Mistral, which raised a sizable seed round in June, has just released its first model, which it claims outperforms others …

Another EU privacy investigation is underway for OpenAI’s ChatGPT generative AI chatbot. ChatGPT and OpenAI were accused of violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in Poland last month. Polish authorities made an unusual public announcement yesterday to confirm an investigation. In a press release, the Office for Personal Data …

While publishing a storage bucket of open-source training data on GitHub, Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed tens of terabytes of sensitive data, including private keys and passwords. Cloud security startup Wiz told it found Microsoft’s AI research division’s GitHub repository while investigating accidental cloud data exposure. Open source code and …

It’s Wednesday, and Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have had a terrible week. The SEC charged the Hollywood power couple’s NFT-based web series, “Stoner Cats,” with unregistered securities. The SEC states, “Stoner Cats is an adult animated television show about house cats that become sentient after being exposed to their …

The EU plans to let startups train AI models on its HPC supercomputers. Startups seeking access to the EU’s high-power compute resource, which includes pre-exascale and petascale supercomputers, must join its AI governance program. In May, the EU announced a plan for a stop-gap set of voluntary rules or standards …

OpenAI will open its first EU office and make several strategic hires to prepare for regulatory headwinds. After opening offices in San Francisco and London in June, ChatGPT plans to open its third office in Ireland, which has become a second home for many U.S. tech companies seeking to connect …

Salesforce introduced Einstein Copilot Studio at Dreamforce in San Francisco today to customize Salesforce’s base Einstein GPT and Copilot offerings. Clara Shih, Salesforce AI CEO, says Einstein Copilot Studio has prompt, skills, and model builders. Shih told , “The first piece is the prompt builder, and this is for customers …