A Popular iOS Illustration App Is Saying No to Generative AI
The backlash against image and video synthesis is not solely focused on creative app developers. Hardware manufacturer Wacom and game publisher Wizards of the Coast have...
‘Hundreds of Ads in Minutes’: This Startup Thinks AI Can Drown Out the MAGA Movement
I confess to Hutchinson that if I were a politician, I would be scared to use BattlegroundAI. Generative AI tools are known to “hallucinate,” a polite...
An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not...
A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AI
When Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without...
To Lead in AI, the US Needs a Silicon Revolution
One thing that US politicians seem to agree on, despite a great many other differences, is that the country needs to lead technologically to maintain a...
Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing
Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational...
SearchGPT Is OpenAI’s Direct Assault on Google
After months of speculation about its search ambitions, OpenAI has revealed SearchGPT, a “prototype” search engine that could eventually help the company tear off a slice...
New Jersey’s $500 Million Bid to Become an AI Epicenter
New Jersey itself is a home to many large pharmaceutical companies—and if these companies use AI to design new drugs, nearby data centers are vital, Sullivan...
Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind Spot
Several years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game...
This Viral AI Chatbot Will Lie and Say It’s Human
In late April a video ad for a new AI company went viral on X. A person stands before a billboard in San Francisco, smartphone extended,...