In October 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced an AI-powered chatbot collaboration with Microsoft to assist business owners in understanding government regulations. This project…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
OpenAI says it ran a small-scale test of its new voice cloning product Voice Engine with a few select partners. The results show promising applications for…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Amazon announced a colossal $2.75 billion investment in AI startup Anthropic. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus is officially the most powerful LLM on the planet, marginally usurping…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
US Vice President Kamala Harris announced a range of new policies regulating how federal agencies use AI in their operations. The latest policies follow President Biden’s…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Welcome to our roundup of this week’s spiciest AI news. This week Sora impressed filmmakers and depressed actors. Researchers created an AI hive mind. And doctors…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
The rapid rise of generative AI is driving an unprecedented surge in data center energy consumption. Today’s data centers already consume over 1% of global electricity,…
By Sam Jeans · 3 min read
A deep fake video featuring Kari Lake, created by digital news outlet Arizona Agenda, surfaced online. In the video, an AI-generated Lake endorses the Arizona Agenda, stating,…
By Sam Jeans · 2 min read
Last week, in south London, the Metropolitan Police used live facial recognition cameras to assist in the arrest of 17 individuals. The arrests occurred during specific…
By Sam Jeans · 4 min read
A team of researchers found that once a large language model (LLM) is personalized with a person’s demographic information, it is significantly more persuasive than a…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Researchers from Loughborough University, MIT, and Yale, have introduced the concept of ‘Collective AI.’ Documenting their ideas in a perspective paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence,…
By Sam Jeans · 4 min read
