Federal prosecutors have charged a North Carolina ‘musician’ with orchestrating an elaborate $10 million fraud scheme using AI-generated music. Michael Smith, 52, was arrested Wednesday on charges of wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, and conspiracy to money launder. Prosecutors allege…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has secured $1 billion in funding just three months after it was founded. The company, which aims to develop “safe” artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems that surpass…
Welcome to our weekly roundup of artisanal AI news. This week OpenAI teased us with “GPT Next”. Elon Musk flipped the switch on Colossus. And AI is watching you whether you like it or not. Let’s dig in. GPT When…
The Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on AI was agreed on Thursday in Vilnius, Lithuania, marking a major step in aligning AI development with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. The United States, European Union, United Kingdom, and…
At the KDDI SUMMIT 2024 in Japan, OpenAI Japan CEO Tadao Nagasaki hinted at the company’s next-generation AI model, named “GPT Next.” Nagasaki said that GPT Next would be a quantum leap for AI, stating it “will evolve nearly 100…
Clearview AI provides facial recognition services to law enforcement and other government agencies but, a Dutch data watchdog says its database of 30B images was built illegally. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) says Clearview scraped images of people from…
Elon Musk’s startup xAI has revealed its latest creation: a supercomputer named Colossus. This massive AI training system currently boasts 100,000 Nvidia Hopper H100 processors. Located in Memphis, Tennesse, Colossus is set to be expanded with 50,000 of Nvidia’s new,…
Brian Armstrong, CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, says his company witnessed the first AI-to-AI crypto transaction. The idea of AI acting as an agent across platforms is fast becoming a reality, but commercial transactions have been challenging. An…
Starting September 3rd, Greater Manchester in the UK will become the latest region to deploy AI cameras to automatically detect drivers using mobile phones or not wearing seatbelts. The “Heads Up” cameras, developed by Australian company Acusensus, use machine learning…
Tom Hanks warned his fans not to be duped by ads using his likeness and voice to promote “wonder drugs” that claim to cure diabetes. Scammers used AI fakes of Hanks last year to promote a dental plan scam and…
OpenAI has signed a first-of-its-kind agreement with the US government to collaborate on AI safety research and evaluation. On Thursday, the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute, part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), announced that it had…
Welcome to our weekly roundup of handmade AI news. This week, OpenAI gave us more vaporware to look forward to. We might not need data centers to train models. And big tech writes anti-establishment letters to ‘save’ AI. Let’s dig…
OpenAI has gone fairly quiet once again, with GPT-4o’s much-hyped voice chat features rolling out far more slowly than anyone had anticipated. But there have been murmurings about new projects in the works, including SearchGPT, which combines generative AI and…
Google announced three new models in its Gemini family, making them available as an experimental release to gather feedback from developers. The release is a continuation of Google’s iterative approach instead of jumping straight to Gemini 2.0. The experimental models…
Applied AI research group Nous Research developed an AI model training optimizer that could dramatically change the way AI models of the future will be trained. Traditionally, training an AI model requires massive data centers packed with GPUs like NVIDIA’s…