Meta canceled its launch of Meta AI in Europe in response to objections to its plan to train its models on users’ social media data. Earlier this month, Meta notified European users of its social media platforms that it intended…
Pope Francis addressed the leaders of the G7 democracies at their annual summit in Puglia, Italy, on Friday. The 87-year-old pontiff, who arrived in a wheelchair, became an unlikely AI ethicist at the event. His message was a familiar one:…
OpenAI has appointed former NSA head and retired General Paul Nakasone to its board of directors. Nakasone’s views on intelligence gathering have raised concerns of civil liberties advocates. OpenAI has been severely criticized over its approach to AI safety in…
When Microsoft launches its new Copilot Plus PCs next week they won’t have the much touted and then criticized Recall functionality built-in. The idea behind Recall is a good one. Use AI to remember everything that happens on your computer…
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s biologically generated AI news. This week AI took over Apple products and gave us iPhone 15 envy. A Chinese text-to-video generator could beat Sora. And Google’s AI search plows through our electricity and…
Scientists used AI to discover that African elephants use unique vocalizations, similar to names, to call out to and identify specific members of their herd. The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, provides evidence that elephants possess…
Police in Australia launched an investigation into the distribution of AI-generated pornographic images of around 50 schoolgirls, with the perpetrator believed to be a teenage boy. In an interview with ABC on Wednesday, Emily, the mother of a 16-year-old girl…
The CDAO Canada Public Sector event is a premier gathering tailored to address the unique challenges and opportunities in public sector data analytics and AI. This event aims to provide an unparalleled platform for public sector leaders to engage, learn,…
Elon Musk has dismissed his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. The lawsuit, filed in February 2023, accused OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit. …
Meta plans to use social media content posted by European users of its platforms to train its Llama AI models. The company’s suite of generative AI tools called “AI at Meta” is only available in select countries with Meta planning…
Google’s latest flagship I/O conference saw the company double down on its Search Generative Experience (SGE) – which will embed generative AI into Google Search. SGE, which aims to bring AI-generated answers to over a billion users by the end…
Mistral AI, a French AI startup, has taken the AI world by storm, raising an impressive €600 million ($640 million) in series B funding at a valuation of $6 billion. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from…
Apple used its WWDC 2024 developers conference to announce that a wide range of AI-powered features will be coming to its devices later this year. After a slow start in the AI race, Apple products look set to have AI…
Google DeepMind researchers developed NATURAL PLAN, a benchmark for evaluating the capability of LLMs to plan real-world tasks based on natural language prompts. The next evolution of AI is to have it leave the confines of a chat platform and…
Chinese tech company Kuaishou Technology released a text-to-video (T2V) generator called Kling that could rival OpenAI’s Sora. In February, OpenAI wowed us with Sora demo videos that had us all frantically looking for the “sign up” button. Four months later,…