Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI may be synonymous with machine learning, and Google is trying to pick itself up, but rapidly multiplying open source projects that push the state of the art and leave deep-pocketed but unwieldy corporations in their dust may soon threaten both. Although not existential, this Zerg-like threat will keep the …

Artists and AI companies continue to fight in court. In recent months, several lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI and Stability AI over their generative AI tech, alleging that copyrighted data, mostly art, was used to train the models without permission. Generative AI models “train” on random web images and …

Faraday Future, a publicly traded company, should jump into the AI hype machine now because it is nearly out of cash and its long-delayed EV has yet to reach customers. Faraday Future announced Tuesday that its first production car, the FF 91 Futurist, will have generative AI. Never mind that …

In the past six weeks, Salesforce, Adobe, Ada, and Forethought have announced generative AI initiatives. Box AI, the latest to announce its own version of the technology, will partner with OpenAI to launch the platform’s first tools. Like many of the other companies making these announcements, they are working with …

The ability to confirm your identity and the veracity of what you say is one of the main motivations for digital identity in the context of the rapid (and occasionally unsettling) development of artificial intelligence technology. Although there is a lot of hype surrounding having your own digital identity, much …

Drake and The Weeknd’s “Heart on My Sleeve” has over 250,000 Spotify streams and 10 million TikTok views. However, “Ghostwriter,” an AI-generated artist, wrote the song. Drake recently commented on AI-generated music that steals his voice, but The Weeknd and Drake have not responded to the song. Drake remarked on …

Niantic announced a new game to diversify its portfolio while Pokémon GO remains its most popular. Today, Niantic and Capcom unveiled a Monster Hunter mobile game for later this year. The business claimed Monster Hunter Now will launch for iOS and Android in September. Players must “hunt monsters in the …

sliderThe proposed legislation also creates ‘an unwarranted economic and technological risk to the EU’. The European Commission (EC)’s planned Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will “chill” open source software development, according to an open letter from over a dozen open source industry groups. The Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation Europe, and Open …

Canal+, a leading French premium TV channel and streaming service, and Apple have signed a multi-year deal. All Canal+ subscribers in France and some other European countries will be able to stream Apple TV+ content for free starting on April 20. Canal+ isn’t just offering Apple TV+, so this is …

Amazon enters generative AI. Instead of building AI models, it’s recruiting third parties to host them on AWS. Amazon Bedrock lets developers build generative AI apps using pretrained models from startups like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Stability AI. Bedrock offers AWS-trained Titan FMs (foundation models) in a “limited preview.” “Applying …