Microsoft’s AI Boss Wants Copilot to Bring ‘Emotional Support’ to Windows and Office
We don’t save any of the material with Copilot Vision, so once you close the browser after your session, it all just disappears. It fully deletes....
Microsoft’s Copilot AI Gets a Voice, Vision, and a ‘Hype Man’ Persona
Microsoft deleted the over-eager office assistant Clippy some 17 years ago, but the vision for a friendly and optimistic AI helper has apparently found its way...
This Startup Wants YouTube Creators to Get Paid for AI Training Data
So far, when AI companies have trained on YouTube’s invaluable stash of videos, captions, and other content, they’ve done so without permission. An AI-focused content licensing...
China’s Plan to Make AI Watermarks Happen
Chinese regulators likely learned from the EU AI Act, says Jeffrey Ding, an assistant professor of Political Science at George Washington University. “Chinese policymakers and scholars...
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Is Leaving the Company
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati resigned on Wednesday, saying she wants “the time and space to do my own exploration.” Murati had been among the...
Meta Releases Llama 3.2—and Gives Its AI a Voice
Powering Meta AI’s new capabilities is an upgraded version of Llama, Meta’s premier large language model. The free model announced today may also have a broad...
The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI Agents
The most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful...
Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping
In a separate analysis conducted this week, data journalist Ben Welsh found that just over a quarter of the news websites he surveyed (294 of 1,167...
Generative AI Transformed English Homework. Math Is Next
ChatGPT has already wreaked havoc on classrooms and changed how teachers approach writing homework, since OpenAI publicly launched the generative AI chatbot in late 2022. School...
The Apartment Rental Market Is Rigged by Algorithms, a DOJ Lawsuit Alleges
If you’ve rented an apartment in the US in the past several years, you may have had the sense that the game was rigged: Prices creep...