Grok’s image generator has seized the headlines, stirring immense criticism for enabling inappropriate, explicit, and manipulative forms of AI use.  When Musk founded his AI startup xAI in 2023, he...

AI companies are being sued for copyright infringements but AI-generated images also present a potential legal risk to end users. In a paper published on IEEE Spectrum, cognitive scientist Dr. Gary...

AI and ML have long transcended the boundaries of science fiction literature, where they were once only imagined as tools for space colonization and interstellar exploration. 

Material scientists are constantly trying to find new materials with specific properties but the experimental data they have to wade through is overwhelming. Scientists at the University of Rochester...

Curiosity drives technology research and development, but does it drive and magnify the risks of AI itself? And what happens if AI develops its own curiosity? From prompt engineering attacks that...

Researchers have discovered that AI-assisted colonoscopies can improve the detection of polyps, particularly when performed by less experienced doctors. 

Experts suggest that the most effective way to ensure AI safety might be to regulate its "hardware" – the chips and data centers, or "compute," that power AI technologies. 

Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp says that the US government should be working on producing AI weapons despite valid concerns. In a New York Times op-ed, Karp made comparisons to the Manhattan...

BingX is a leading cryptocurrency exchange, serving over 10 million users worldwide. We got to speak with BingX CPO Vivien Lin about how AI and blockchain are changing the way people trade online....

OpenAI’s Sora system preludes a new wave of synthetic video and AI-powered media. Can humans learn to reliably detect AI-generated fakes? How do they impact us on a cognitive level?

AI deep fakes deceived a finance worker at a prominent multinational corporation into transferring a staggering $25.6 million to fraudsters. 

Some ChatGPT users have reportedly found ChatGPT to be getting a little lazy over the last few days with some suggesting it may be imitating how humans slow down as winter sets in. If you’ve been...

Google Research unveiled Lumiere, a text-to-video diffusion model that creates remarkably realistic videos from text or image prompts. The still images generated by tools like Midjourney or DALL-E...

Researchers at the University of Berkeley, California, developed an AI forecasting system to predict future events with similar accuracy to human crowd wisdom.  As LLMs are not purpose-built for...

Elon Musk announced yesterday that the first human had received a Neuralink brain implant and was recovering well. The FDA gave the company the go-ahead last year for human trials of its brain-mach...

The Beijing Internet Court ruled that an AI-generated image created by a man surnamed Li was protected by Chinese copyright law. Li used Stable Diffusion to generate an image of a young Asian woman...

AstraZeneca has committed $247 million to fund AI drug discovery company Absci’s efforts to develop an antibody for cancer. Absci uses its generative AI drug discovery platform to discover potential...

Ed Newton-Rex, ex-VP of Audio at Stability AI, announced the launch of 'Fairly Trained,' a non-profit organization dedicated to certifying generative AI companies for fairer training data practices. 

Oslo will host Norway’s two-day Nordic AI Summit where AI’s potential to transform business and society will be explored. Norway boasts a 40% AI adoption rate so it will be really interesting to see...

The NVIDIA 2024 GTC AI conference brings together an influential dream team of the AI industry’s biggest influencers helping shape what’s next in AI and accelerated computing. The GPU Technology...

Scientists at the University of Bonn, led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bajorath, have uncovered the inner workings of ‘black box’ AIs involved in pharmaceutical research. 

Researchers from Cedars-Sinai developed a virtual reality (VR) AI mental health support tool named the eXtended-reality Artificial Intelligence Assistant (XAIA). 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) researchers found that AI agents powered by GPT-4 can autonomously exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. As AI models become more powerful, their...

New economic policies in the UK have incited concerns about how the creative industries will be taxed if they become shaped by AI.

A group of Chicago-based developers have equipped artists with Nightshade, a method of fighting back against unethical data practices and model training in the AI industry. 

Gen Z individuals, those born between 1997 and 2012, are supposed to be some of the most tech-savvy internet users but they may be more vulnerable to AI misinformation than they think. Their readin...

Deep fakes, sophisticated digital fabrications made possible by AI, blur the lines between reality and fiction, making it increasingly difficult to distinguish authentic content from manipulated...

The creative industries undoubtedly face disruption from generative AI, but to what extent? And where will it lead?

Anthropic recently introduced Claude 3, an AI model that challenges the current heavyweight GPT-4.

In an investigation by NBC News, it was revealed that popular search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing are inadvertently promoting nonconsensual deep fake pornography. 

Generative AI is proving to be a huge disrupter in the way successful companies do business. The Generative AI Europe conference in Amsterdam will explore the transformative potential of Generative...

Google’s release of its Gemini multi-modal models saw the release of Gemini Nano, which will roll out to the Pixel 8 Pro. 

The New York Times (NYT) filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft today, claiming the companies breached its copyright by using its content to train their AI models. Neither Microsoft nor OpenAI...

MIT researchers used deep learning models to discover the first new class of antibiotics in decades. The resulting antibiotics could turn the tide against drug-resistant bacteria. When Alexander...

Researchers from Stanford University created AI models that can identify where a photo was taken with remarkable accuracy. There are good use cases for their solution but important ethical concerns...

OpenAI has amended its usage policies to allow its AI products to be used in some military applications as the company engages with the Pentagon on several projects. OpenAI is working on several...

Our ancestors once huddled in small, isolated communities, their faces illuminated by flickering fires. Evidence of controlled campfires for cooking and warmth dates back some 700,000 years, but...

Stanford University researchers have improved on their static ALOHA robot by building a fully mobile version that can be trained to perform household tasks. For a robot to be useful in a range of...

A study published in Reaction Chemistry and Engineering by researchers at the University of Surrey used AI to enhance carbon capture at power plants, reducing energy consumption by over a third.

Microsoft's Copilot, a dynamic AI chatbot, has recently debuted on Android and iOS platforms. 

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a statewide consortium to promote collaboration between public and private institutions to drive AI research. The project, called Empire AI, will be funded by...

Clusters of human brain cells cultivated in Petri dishes have been integrated with computers to achieve a fundamental level of speech recognition.

 A recent study revealed that AI models can be coaxed into performing actions they are programmed to avoid. 

As Bangladesh prepares for its national elections in early January, an increasingly familiar threat is rearing its ugly head: AI to create and disseminate disinformation. 

OpenAI has announced that it will partner with Arizona State University in its first deployment of ChatGPT Enterprise at a higher education institution. The university’s staff, faculty, and students...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has recently released a pivotal report, providing a thorough assessment of how AI is poised to influence the cyber threat landscape over the next two...

US Chief Justice John Roberts used his year-end report to express cautious optimism over the developing role that AI will play in the legal system. Before addressing the use cases for AI in adminis...

Loneliness is a global epidemic with people increasingly relying on AI companions to fill the absence of human friends. Researchers from Stanford University found that students may get mental health...

Researchers from the University of Sheffield have developed a groundbreaking AI tool, CognoSpeak, designed to accelerate the diagnosis of early signs of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Google DeepMind's Genie is a generative model that translates simple images or text prompts into dynamic, interactive worlds. 

Death is one of humanity’s most formidable adversaries – the one challenge we are desperate to overcome at any cost. From Ponce de Leon’s quest for the Fountain of Youth to cryogenic freezing,...

Ischemic strokes, which occur when blood flow to the brain is blocked, are one of the major causes of death or disability. 

New York City has become the first in the world to enact a law regulating the use of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs). Researchers from Cornell University found that difficulties with the...

Rogue waves are the stuff of maritime legend, but when they happen they can cause a lot of damage to ships and oil rigs. Scientists at the University of Victoria and the University of Copenhagen used...

Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine used AI to design new protein molecules in a way that opens up exciting possibilities for the detection and treatment of diseases. The...

We interviewed Tanisha Katara, an expert in blockchain governance and the Governance Innovation Specialist at Polygon Technology. In the last two years, she has also been an independent consultant to...

Researchers have unveiled a new type of computer virus that harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) to evade detection and propagate itself.  This “synthetic cancer,” as its creators dub...

A report from the think tank RAND has concluded that current LLMs do not meaningfully increase the risk of a biological attack by a non-state actor. In October last year, the same group of research...

The exponential adoption of AI technology has placed a huge demand on natural resources to fuel the computer data centers that power the tech. With global goals to halve carbon emissions AI may be...

AI is permeating the lives of millions worldwide, but despite widespread uptake, the technology is proving tough to monetize amid escalating costs. 

The European Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit 2024 is set to take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 12 to 14, 2024. 

Researchers from the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit and Oxford University’s Department of Computer Science have identified a novel means for comparing learning in AI systems and the human brain. 

OpenAI, under the leadership of CEO Sam Altman, has agreed to purchase $51 million worth of AI chips from a startup named Rain AI, in which Altman has also made a personal investment. 

As AI technologies become widely deployed, they also become targets for cybercriminals. Cyber security agencies from the UK and US developed new guidelines on how to make AI more secure. The stated...

The AI For Revenue Summit 2024 is a virtual event designed to bring together the brightest minds in the field of AI and its application in revenue generation. 

Researchers from Loughborough University, MIT, and Yale, have introduced the concept of 'Collective AI.’ 

Key US AI firms and Chinese AI experts have been conducting confidential discussions focused on the safety of AI. 

Microsoft has announced an investment of £2.5 billion in the UK tech industry over the next three years. 

Google DeepMind released a suite of new tools to help robots learn autonomously faster and more efficiently in novel environments. Training a robot to perform a specific task in a single environment...

Over 16,000 artists' names have been linked with the non-consensual training of Midjourney’s image generation models.

In a statement of written evidence to the UK House of Lords, OpenAI stated that creating AI tools without using copyrighted material is “impossible.”

CEO of Tesla and X Corp, Elon Musk, is attempting to secure a substantial $1 billion investment for xAI.

Buckingham Palace warned of legal battles over fake books describing King Charles's recent cancer diagnosis.

Anthropic added prompt generation, testing, and evaluation to the Anthropic Console and gave its Artifacts feature some exciting new functionality. If you considered a career as a prompt engineer...

An AI system developed using comprehensive personal data from Denmark has shown remarkable accuracy in predicting an individual's risk of death. 

Meta has released V-JEPA, a predictive vision model that is the next step toward Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun’s vision of advanced machine intelligence (AMI). For AI-powered machines to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was confronted with a question from an AI-generated deep fake version of himself during a live Q&A session with the public. 

As the era of generative AI marches on, a broad range of companies have joined the fray, and the models themselves have become increasingly diverse. 

Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan now in prison for leaking state secrets, used AI to deliver a speech at a virtual rally. 

Midjourney has released V6 of its already impressive AI image-generating model as an Alpha release on its Discord server. V6 comes with a number of significant improvements but the biggest upgrade is...

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI startup co-founded by former Google engineers, has secured $30 million in seed funding. 

Nobel Prize winner Sir Christopher Pissarides has cautioned younger generations against rushing to pursue studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields because of AI....

The Biden administration has ordered a Saudi Aramco venture capital firm, Prosperity7, to divest its shares in a Silicon Valley AI chip startup, Rain AI, which had received backing from OpenAI...

Google’s DeepMind released Gecko, a new benchmark for comprehensively evaluating AI text-to-image (T2I) models. Over the last two years, we’ve seen AI image generators like DALL-E and Midjourney...

A new report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) says that the narrative depicting AI’s energy consumption as out of control is overblown and often misleading. The ITIF, a...

Researchers from Columbia University used an AI tool to challenge the long-standing belief that each fingerprint is unique to an individual's hand. 

A group of leading scientists has launched a voluntary initiative outlining a set of values, principles, and commitments for AI protein design. 

Google has recently unveiled its new AI-powered coding tool, Duet AI for Developers, positioning it as a direct competitor to GitHub's Copilot. 

Mastercard’s real-time fraud detection technology will get a boost later this year when it rolls out the generative AI fraud detection tool it has developed. The AI tool, called Decision Intelligence...

Perplexity AI has found itself at the center of a firestorm over its data collection practices.  Perplexity essentially fuses a search engine with generative AI, returning AI-generated content...

The surging demand for AI is on a collision course with environmental sustainability, with experts stating that coal power might stick around to maintain electricity demands. 

Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan currently serving time in jail, used AI to say his party won the national election.

The inaugural Travel Trends AI Summit is set to offer unique insight into AI’s deep integration into the travel industry. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced intentions to drive forward AI development. 

Duolingo, the leading language translation app, has caught attention on social media following a former employee's claims that the company has dismissed several translators in favor of AI.