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The European Parliament voted to approve the AI Act, establishing the EU as a leader in creating regulations for a wide range of artificial intelligence software, which regional MPs have described as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.”MEPs decisively supported the interim agreement achieved in December during trilogue discussions with …

We have long been familiar with the concept of customer experience, which involves enhancing consumer interactions with firms via digital means. The findings have been varied, with no clear positive outcome. Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor’s new company, Sierra, thinks that AI agents could develop into a crucial technological frontier, …

Launching a series of interviews to highlight female academics and others who have made significant contributions to the AI revolution. Multiple publications are planned for the year to showcase important but overlooked work in the ongoing AI boom. Explore additional profiles here. Irene Solaiman started her professional journey in the …

Concerned about the potential misuse of AI-generated voices for deceptive purposes during phone conversations? On February 8, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made a ruling that has immediate effect. The ruling states that robocalls utilizing AI voices are subject to the restrictions outlined in the Telephone Consumer Protection …

Meta is now broadening its labeling of AI-generated imagery on its social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. This expansion will now include synthetic imagery that has been created using generative AI tools from competitors. Meta will look for “industry standard indicators” that show the content is AI-generated and …

We talk a lot about AI’s drawbacks, but what about its benefits, like feeding authors’ or historical figures’ writing into a large language model? James Lowry is unknown, but his story is part of black American history. Chicago-born Lowry was the first Black McKinsey consultant in 1968 after serving in …

“Avengers” director Joe Russo and I are increasingly convinced that fully AI-generated movies and TV shows are possible in our lifetimes. In recent months, OpenAI’s ultra-realistic text-to-speech engine has shown glimpses of this brave new frontier. As for me, Meta’s announcement today brought our AI-generated content future into sharp relief. …

According to a new report from app subscription service Setapp, 42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, and 63% believe they are more beneficial than those without AI. Mac app developers are also adopting AI, with 44% having implemented AI or machine learning models and 28% working on it. …

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 …

Meta released FACET, a new AI benchmark, today to assess the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect objects and people in photos and videos. FACET, a tortured acronym for “Fairness in Computer Vision EvaluaTion” with 32,000 images of 50,000 people labeled by human annotators, accounts for occupations and …