Items tagged with AI
Google's AI tool is in the news again, but for the wrong reason. Similar to the AI Overview feature that generated concern among publishers, complaints have surfaced concerning the Gemini Flash 2.0 AI model. This time, there are worries that the tool can remove watermarks from images, which could be concerning for...
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Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing its Muse AI modelm which is designed to aid the game development process, the company has introduced an additional AI tool meant for gamers. During the Xbox Podcast, Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President of Gaming AI, unveiled Copilot for Gaming. It’s being billed as...
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The world's first "biological computer" has officially hit the market, marking what may actually be a significant breakthrough in AI technology. Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon hardware to create a dynamic, learning neural network. This innovative system...
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TSMC announced plans to invest an additional $100 billion on advanced chip manufacturing in the United States, bringing its total US investment to $165 million. As part of the bolstered spending, TSMC will build five new factories, including three fabrication plants and two advanced packaging facilities. It's also...
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There are numerous ways humans can become extinct, like an asteroid crashing into Earth or nuclear bombs making the planet inhabitable, both of which have been featured in various Hollywood flicks. But instead of the sound of bombs exploding or a giant space rock smashing into our home planet, the last sounds we might...
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We're starting to sound like a broken record, but NVIDIA crushed yet another quarter with its Q4 revenue scaling to $39.3 billion, which is a 12% sequential gain and a massive 78% spike from the same quarter a year ago. Even more impressive, the record quarter capped off a monster year that saw NVIDIA post a greater...
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AI is being heralded as an important part of the future game development pipeline by the biggest players in the industry, with the latest push coming from Microsoft with the release of its Muse AI model. However, it seems as if the future is here, according to Call of Duty’s Steam page that now contains an AI...
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Apple has announced plans to spend and invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, a commitment that came days after President Trump said the company was going to "build here because they don't want to pay tariffs." Part of Apple's massive investment includes a new 250,000 square-foot...
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Concerns have been raised about the effect of AI on critical thinking. In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a student has been expelled by the University of Minnesota for allegedly using AI. However, not only has Haishan Yang, the student who was the target of the expulsion, denied the allegations but he...
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We often worry about how bad actors might use AI, though its capacity for independent misbehavior is rarely discussed. A recent research effort has revealed that certain AI models independently resort to cheating to avoid defeat in a chess match against a proficient chess bot.
The study experimented with seven AI...
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Generative AI seems poised to become an integral part of the game development pipeline, with Microsoft unveiling Muse, a World and Human Action Model (WHAM). It’s the first model of its kind, and comes by way of a collaborative effort between the research team and Xbox Game Studios’ Ninja Theory, which provided...
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Despite recent concerns over junk AI-generated science on Google Scholar, Google seems confident in AI's involvement in scientific research. As such, the tech giant unveiled plans regarding an 'AI co-scientist' tool built on Gemini 2.0 that is capable of conducting scientific research and making discoveries. Google...
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If you read this website regularly—or even if this is your first time here—it's almost a given that you use or have used Windows Notepad at some point. It is one of the most basic text editors possible—or at least, it used to be. Microsoft has been slowly bloating it with additional features, some of dubious value...
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Within the last 10 years, Google has paid over $200 million to settle privacy lawsuit allegations, including a $170 million settlement in 2019 for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). These incidents have made child privacy and parental consent a top priority for Google in more recent years...
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Well, not your thoughts, probably, but Meta has unveiled a new AI-powered brain scanner that can apparently translate thoughts into text. That's according to the company itself, which posted two research papers and a blog about it. The system, which relies on non-invasive brain recordings, represents a major milestone...
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Artificial Intelligence is everywhere these days, and the level of investment in in the technology means it will only become more prevalent as time goes on. With many people already using tools such as ChatGPT as they go about their daily lives, is it the best path forward, though? A new study by Microsoft that...
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China's DeepSeek made quite the splash late last month, both within the tech industry at large and by disrupting the US stock market, at least initially. In particular, DeepSeek's open-source R1 model made waves by challenging far more expensive AI solutions—the R1 model was reportedly built on a comparatively meager...
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Meta is involved in a class action lawsuit alleging copyright infringement, a claim the company disputes. Newly unsealed court documents containing private conversations between Meta employees appear to support the plaintiffs' allegations, however. These documents suggest Meta employees were aware of the potential...
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Much of the discussion around upstart Chinese AI firm Deepseek's technology has been centered around the idea that it can be deployed using considerably less powerful hardware than is typically required for useful language models. That means you can run it directly on your home PC; no internet connection required at...
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It seems the AI party on Wall Street might have hit an unexpected snag—and it's got a Made in China tag. In some circles, the debut of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's new models have shaken confidence in the dominance of western AI giants like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google. DeepSeek's advancements, particularly...
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A well known provider of professional development tools, JetBrains, has unveiled Junie, an AI-powered coding agent that promises to revolutionize software development. The tool is claimed to be designed to supercharge productivity and streamline a developer's workflow. Junie exceeds the limitations of traditional...
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It’s late January, CES is behind us, and like clockwork, new Samsung flagship smartphones are here. In San Jose, California today, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25 Ultra ($1299), S25+ ($999). and S25 ($799). The good news is that the price of these new handsets remains unchanged versus last year’s...
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