As cloud computing evolves, Amazon's AWS looks for its role in generative AI
Amazon unveils new capabilities in Bedrock for improved AI applications
Generative ai articles
Apple will favor on-device AI over cloud processing, more evidence suggests
iPhone 16 and M4 Macs could feature huge NPU upgrades later this year
Microsoft VASA tech can create realistic deepfakes using a single photo and one audio track
Through the looking glass: Microsoft Research Asia has released a white paper on a generative AI application it is developing. The program is called VASA-1, and it can create very realistic videos from just a single image of a face and a vocal soundtrack. Even more impressive is that the software can generate the video and swap faces in real time.
Gamers are renting out GPU power for AI porn generation in return for Fortnite skins
It's like a GPU mining operation, except you get in-game content instead of cryptocurrency
Logitech thinks the computer mouse needs an AI upgrade
AI has officially invaded the realm of computer peripherals
AMD next-gen APUs reportedly sacrifice a larger cache for AI chips
Will NPUs be a waste of die space?
Why it matters: As chipmakers embark on a widespread transition to locally processed generative AI, certain users are still questioning the need of this technology. NPUs have emerged as a new buzzword as hardware vendors aim to introduce the concept of the "AI PC," yet their arrival prompts speculation about whether the valuable die space they occupy could have been allocated to more beneficial purposes.
Washington's Lottery pulls promotional AI app after it accidentally produces a nude
Instead of a fake "dream vacation" photo, the AI turned one woman's selfie into a deepfake
New iPad Pro and iPad Air models now expected to launch on May
iPad Pro OLED coming with M3 chip, new Magic Keyboard, and updated Apple Pencil
OpenAI's GPT-5, their next-gen foundation model is coming soon
GPT-5 needs to solve the reliability issues experienced by GPT-4 customers
YouTube introduces labeling requirements for synthetic and altered content
Including generative AI
Modern workplace tech linked to lower employee well-being, study finds
Who'd have thought that AI, robots, and trackers could make employees miserable?
Researchers prove they can exploit chatbots to spread AI worms
Hackers could deploy the worms in plain text emails or hidden in images
In context: Big Tech continues to recklessly shovel billions of dollars into bringing AI assistants to consumers. Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Bard, Amazon's Alexa, and Meta's Chatbot already have generative AI engines. Apple is one of the few that seems to be taking its time upgrading Siri to an LLM and hopes to compete with an LLM that runs locally rather than in the cloud.
Data Governance and Provenance: Two words that are critical to the future of generative AI
Using "borrowed" material for training. Fair use or not?
Tim Cook says Apple will "break new ground" in generative AI this year
The company has been accused of being slow to adopt AI
New multi-threading technique promises to double processing speeds
'SHMT' also sliced power usage by 51% compared to existing techniques
Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount
ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently
The Windows Photos app gets new AI object removal feature
Android had it and now Windows has it, too
Stable Diffusion 3.0 update (almost) perfects typography in generated images
Stability AI is diffusing the line between real and rendered text with this one
Google accused of being "woke" after Gemini creates inaccurate, racially diverse historical images
It has now suspended the feature
Facepalm: Generative AIs are often accused of being biased, but it appears that Google went a bit too far in trying to address this problem with Gemini. The company has apologized after the tool produced images showing people of color and women in historically inaccurate contexts, such as Nazi-era German soldiers and the Founding Fathers. It's led to complaints about Gemini being "woke," and Google has now paused the feature while it makes changes.
Adobe's new PDF assistant can summarize documents and answer questions
Free until it comes out of beta
Face it, there is nothing that can replace COBOL
And don't hang your hope on generative AI, at least not yet
OpenAI introduces Sora, a text-to-video generator that can create realistic 60-second 1080p clips
Some creations are better than others
Slack gets a new AI search function that will dig out the important bits from your chat history
It'll search through your messy message history so you don't have to
Meta will start detecting and labeling AI-generated images from other companies
The feature will arrive on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the coming months
Tim Cook reveals Apple's shift towards generative AI, says announcements are arriving this year
Will Apple's cautious approach to AI pay off?