Semiconductor giant AMD has announced the acquisition of Silo AI, Europe’s largest private AI lab, in a $665 million cash deal expected to close in the second half of 2024. This spurs on AMD’s strategy to offer end-to-end AI solutions…
According to a new study, ethical guidelines are conspicuously absent as AI continues to transform healthcare, from drug discovery to medical imaging analysis. The study by Joschka Haltaufderheide and Robert Ranisch from the University of Potsdam, published in njp Digital…
Microsoft has unexpectedly withdrawn from its observer role on OpenAI’s board. As first reported by the Financial Times, Microsoft’s deputy general counsel, Keith Dolliver, wrote a letter to OpenAI stating that the company’s board role was “no longer necessary” given…
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 then you may want to rethink those plans. AI application developers…
A youth court in Badajoz, Spain, has sentenced 15 schoolchildren to a year’s probation for creating and spreading AI-generated nude images of their female classmates. The minors, aged between 13 and 15, were found guilty of 20 counts of child…
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have harnessed AI in the fight against antibiotic resistance. The research team, led by Professor Stephen Baker, created a machine learning tool using only microscopy images to distinguish between bacteria resistant to ciprofloxacin (a…
Chinese AI developer, SenseTime, unveiled its upgraded multimodal SenseNova 5.5 model and claims it represents the state-of-the-art. The upgraded model comes just a few months after the release of SenseNova 5 which SenseTime says was on par with GPT-4 Turbo.…
Researchers from the University of Würzburg and the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development trained an AI model to detect lies and it could disrupt the way we engage with each other. Humans aren’t great at telling whether a person is…
A security breach at OpenAI exposed how AI companies are lucrative targets to hackers. The breach, which occurred early last year and was recently reported by the New York Times, involved a hacker gaining access to the company’s internal messaging…
We’re still waiting for OpenAI to release its GPT-4o voice assistant but a French non-profit AI research lab beat it to the punch with its release of Moshi. Moshi is a real-time voice AI assistant powered by the Helium 7B…
Salesforce, an enterprise software company, has unveiled two compact AI models that challenge the “bigger is better” paradigm in AI. Despite their compact size, the 1- and 7-billion parameter xLAM models outperform many larger models in function-calling tasks. These tasks…
Figma CEO Dylan Field announced that his company would temporarily disable its new AI features. The decision comes after allegations that the tool was reproducing designs strikingly similar to Apple’s Weather app, raising concerns about whether Figma’s training data contains…
Can AI be funny? A new study by psychology researchers from the University of Southern California tested ChatGPT’s comedic ability with surprising results. ChatGPT can write code, coherent content, and even poetry. But can it write content that captures the…
Welcome to this week’s roundup of bio-generated AI news. This week AI got famous voices from beyond the grave. Your AI memes are driving up Google’s utility bill. And countries say ‘Let’s share our tech’ as they deploy more AI…
By analyzing speech patterns, researchers at Boston University have developed an AI system that can predict with nearly 80% accuracy whether someone with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer’s disease within six years. The study, published in the journal Alzheimer’s…