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,...
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
Amazon’s cloud division has launched an investigation into Perplexity AI. At issue is whether the AI search startup is violating Amazon Web Services rules by scraping...
OpenAI Wants AI to Help Humans Train AI
One of the key ingredients that made ChatGPT a ripsnorting success was an army of human trainers who gave the artificial intelligence model behind the bot...
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All
Some Fortune 500 companies have begun testing software that can spot a deepfake of a real person in a live video call, following a spate of...
Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works
A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it needed to make adjustments to its...
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up
When bizarre and misleading answers to search queries generated by Google’s new AI Overview feature went viral on social media last week, the company issued statements...
Chatbots Are Entering Their Stone Age
For all the bluster about generative artificial intelligence upending the world, the technology has yet to meaningfully transform white-collar work. Workers are dabbling with chatbots for...
Anduril Is Building Out the Pentagon’s Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms
When Palmer Luckey cofounded the defense startup Anduril in 2017, three years after selling his virtual reality startup Oculus to Facebook, the idea of a twentysomething...