The European Parliament has passed a major piece of legislation to govern AI use in the European Union. After the AI Act becomes law, some applications will be banned, while the likes of OpenAI and Google will have to abide by new rules.
Google DeepMind has published new research into an AI system that's able to carry out tasks in 3D games it hasn't seen before. The team says it's the first time an agent has shown it's able to understand a wide range of gaming worlds and carry out tasks within them based on natural-language instructions.
Gemini, Google's AI chatbot, won't answer questions about questions about India's upcoming national elections, the company wrote in a blog post today. The restrictions are similar to the ones Google announced in December ahead of global elections in the US and the EU.
Elon Musk says that xAI will open source its Grok chatbot this week. This may be a dig at OpenAI, which Musk is suing and claims has become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft.
A company called Soul Machines debuted its "Digital Marilyn" AI chatbot of Marilyn Monroe at SXSW on International Women's Day. Soul Machines touts its ability to produce nuanced, realistic responses when engaging with fans. It comes at a time of increased scrutiny into the use of celebrities' digital likenesses without their consent.
Adobe is bringing generative AI features to its mobile apps for the first time. Firefly tools are now available in Adobe Express in beta on Android and iOS.
Facebook tested the new system with Reels and noticed that watch times went up significantly. So it will roll it out to the main Facebook feed and Groups as well.
In an indictment that was unsealed in a federal California court, prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national who started working at Google in 2019, of uploading trade secrets from his Google-issued laptop to personal cloud storage accounts.
Microsoft may debut its first 'AI PCs' later this month. According to a report, the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 will support new AI functions that are slated to hit Windows 11 later this year.
This week, Adobe revealed an experimental audio AI tool to join its image-based ones in Photoshop. Described by the company as “an early-stage generative AI music generation and editing tool,” Adobe’s Project Music GenAI Control can create music from text prompts, which it can then fine-tune.
Samsung’s upcoming microSD card will offer a dramatic speed boost. The company’s 256GB SD Express microSD — the first of its kind — can read data at up to 800 MB/s, significantly faster than the microSDs you can buy today.
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. The platforms’ parent company, Automattic, is nearing completion of an agreement to provide data to help train the AI companies’ models.
NVIDIA has revealed its latest mobile GPUs, which it says bring the latest AI advancements to thin-and-light laptops. The RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation GPUs will be available in laptops from major manufacturers this spring.
Google said Thursday it’s pausing its Gemini chatbot’s ability to generate people. The move comes after viral social posts showed the AI tool overcorrecting for diversity, producing “historical” images of Nazis, America’s Founding Fathers and the Pope as people of color.
Google has struck a deal with Reddit that will allow the search engine maker to train its AI models on Reddit’s vast catalog of user-generated content.