Artificial Intelligence

Virtual personal assistants powered by artificial intelligence are becoming ubiquitous across technology platforms, with every major tech firm adding AI to their services and dozens of specialized services tumbling onto the market.

To fight the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), a coalition of top generative AI developers—including Google, Meta, and OpenAI—vowed to enforce guardrails around the emerging technology.

Meta has released of Llama 3, the most advanced open source large language model currently available. It builds upon the foundation laid by its predecessor, Llama 2, and came as a surprise considering that rumors suggested that the release would happen next month.

Social media giant Meta has added its newest AI assistant to almost all its apps, co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday.

Voting started today on a deal negotiated between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and members of the recording industry that limits record labels in using artificial intelligence with actors’ voices.

The use of AI in music has caused a great divide among musicians, with some dubbing it “catastrophic” and others enthusiastically embracing the technology. For Avenged Sevenfold frontman Matt Sanders (aka M. Shadows), it’s not a question of if AI will gain traction in the music industry, but when.

It was in the comparable primordial days of AI hardware when the Humane AI pin was announced, a $700 wearable that was teased on a fashion runway and led a nascent category of device that soon included the $200 Pocket AI and the yet-to-be-released Rewind Pendant.

Ideogram, an AI image generator created by former Google engineers, has released its first set of upgrades intended to make the platform more functional and usable. The upgrades add capabilities to better match offerings from Stable Diffusion and Midjourney at a compelling price point.

At a high-profile AI event in London, Meta executives on Tuesday provided the first official confirmation and details about the imminent release of Llama 3, the highly-anticipated next iteration of the company’s open-source large language model.

The developers of artificial intelligence models would have to provide a list of all copyrighted works used to train their systems under a new law proposed by California congressman Adam Schiff.

The wait is over and the rumors were true: Generative music startup Uncharted Labs launched its own music generator today, called Udio. It transforms simple text prompts into professional-quality tracks, and is poised to give Suno V3—the current king of AI music—a run for its money.

Security researchers put the much-touted guardrails placed around the most popular AI models to see how well they resisted jailbreaking, and tested just how far the chatbots could be pushed into dangerous territory.

With U.S. election season well underway, China is increasing its use of artificial intelligence as part of broader efforts to interfere with American politics, according to Microsoft—meanwhile learning what divides citizens in order to leverage it to foment discord.