Acer unveiled a pair of AMD Ryzen 8040 series laptops on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, given their chips’ dedicated NPUs, the company is marketing the 2024 Acer Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 as AI workhorses.
A coalition of 20 tech companies signed an agreement Friday to help prevent AI deepfakes in the critical 2024 elections. OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, Adobe and X are among the businesses signing the agreement to prevent and combat AI-generated content that could influence voters.
Google unveiled Gemini 1.5 Pro, which the company describes as delivering “dramatically enhanced performance.” The announcement follows the unveiling of Gemini 1.0 Ultra last week, alongside the rebranding of the Bard chatbot to Gemini.
The parents of a teenager who was killed in Florida’s Parkland school shooting in 2018 have started a bold new project called The Shotline to lobby for stricter gun laws in the country. The Shotline uses AI to recreate the voices of children killed by gun violence and send recordings through automated calls to lawmakers.
Microsoft and OpenAI say that state backed-hackers were using generative AI tools to improve their cyberattacks. The groups used OpenAI tools to draft phishing emails, debug code and research targets.
Slack has finally unleashed its generative AI toolset, which auto-generates thread summaries and channel recaps. There’s also daily channel summaries and conversation-based search.
Google and the Environmental Defense Fund have teamed up to track methane emissions using satellite images and AI. The EDF's MethaneSAT is expected to help provide the most comprehensive picture yet of global methane leaks.
NVIDIA just released a free new chatbot that runs locally on Windows PCs. You need a GeForce RTX 30 Series GPU or higher and at least 8GB of VRAM to use the bot.
Midjourney's CEO reportedly told users during a chat session on Discord that the company is close to banning images such as those of Biden and Trump over the next 12 months
Some of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Meta and Apple, have joined the US AI Safety Institute Consortium. This entity is tasked with carrying out actions outlined in Biden’s recent AI-focused executive order.
An investigation has linked two Texas companies to robocalls that used AI to mimic President Joe Biden's voice. The campaign targeted up to 25,000 New Hampshire voters.
An unconfirmed changelog shared on X by Android app developer Dylan Roussel suggests Google is planning to introduce some changes to Bard on February 7 along with new Gemini products.
Amazon launched a new generative AI shopping assistant, Rufus, on Thursday. The chatbot is trained on Amazon’s product catalog, customer reviews, community Q&As and “information from across the web.”
Google has implemented an early access generative AI feature to Maps that allows users to speak to the app using conversational language. You can use the tool to discover new places along your route or just when exploring a new town.