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April 21, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Will AI mean the end of liberal democracy?

Fareed Zakaria on the age of revolution.

By Editors Desk

Journalist Fareed Zakaria speaks during the Ellis Island Medals of Honor ceremony at the Ellis Island Honors Society meeting in New York on May 13, 2017. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images

March 31, 2024

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Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

Startup acquisitions have been replaced by hiring sprees and tight partnerships

By Editors Desk

March 26, 2024

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California looks to Europe to rein in AI

San Francisco (AFP) – California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration.

By Editors Desk

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March 19, 2024

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The small Caribbean island making a fortune from artificial intelligence

The .ai internet domain for Anguilla is attracting tech companies interested in using the domain extension for their AI services

By Editors Desk

Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, and one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. HEDELIN F. (ANDIA/ UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP/ GETTY)

March 01, 2024

Tech

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Breaching Firm’s Founding Mission

By Editors Desk

Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak onstage during the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California.Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fair

February 29, 2024

Tech

‘Woke’ fail costs Google $139 billion

Google’s AI platform Gemini has been rocked by controversy over its bizarre outputs, leading investors to desert the company.

By Editors Desk

This Gemini image of a female and black Pope was labelled “woke”. Picture: X

February 29, 2024

Web

Universal Music impasse with TikTok threatens to take more tracks off platform

Talks stumble over money, copyright and use of artificial intelligence

By Editors Desk

Beyoncé’s new song, ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’, has soared to the top of the Billboard charts, helped by its prominence on TikTok © INSTARimages.com/Reuters Connect

February 26, 2024

Tech

Phones are getting packed with AI features. But how helpful are they?

We tried some of the most common AI tools built into modern phones to find the good and the gimmicky

(Illustration by The Washington Post; iStock)

February 26, 2024

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These major companies are using AI to snoop through employees’ messages, report reveals

Americans weigh in on robots reading their work messages

By Editors Desk

Companies using AI to monitor employee messages Companies like Walmart, Delta and Starbucks could be using Artificial Intelligence to snoop through your work messages. FOX Business' Lydia Hu has the latest.

February 02, 2024

Cinema

Is AI the future of movie-making?

Soon you may watch a blockbuster entirely generated by AI

By Editors Desk

Ken Watanabe stars in "The Creator"SOURCE: 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS

January 25, 2024

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Explicit, AI-generated Taylor Swift images spread quickly on social media

It’s unclear where the Taylor Swift-related images originated. Although some images were found on sites such as Instagram and Reddit, they were a widespread issue on X in particular.

By Editors Desk

Taylor Swift. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images/FILE

January 25, 2024

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Study finds 75% of U.S. adults expect job pool to shrink due to AI

By Editors Desk

What are the dangers of artificial intelligence?

January 25, 2024

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Victoria's Secret's new AI shopping partnership exposes new dangers, experts say

Some experts fear the partnership will be an invasion of privacy

Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon: Artificial intelligence will change how we use our devices

January 19, 2024

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‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts

Meta CEO accused of being ‘irresponsible’ by considering making tools on par with human intelligence open source

By Editors Desk

Building an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system and making it open source has been likened to ‘giving people a template to build a nuclear bomb’. Photograph: Godofredo A Vásquez/AP

January 18, 2024

Business

Sam Altman and Satya Nadella talk to The Economist

The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft on the future of AI and superhuman intelligence

January 09, 2024

Business

OpenAI Responds to New York Times Lawsuit, Claims Paper “Intentionally Manipulated” Prompts

The statement was issued in response to a copyright infringement lawsuit from the publisher.

By Editors Desk

January 04, 2024

Artificial Intelligence

Jeff Bezos Bets on a Google Challenger Using AI to Try to Upend Internet Search

Perplexity, with a fraction of Google’s users, raised the largest sum by an internet search startup in recent years

By Editors Desk

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats and Johnny Ho, co-founders of the startup Perplexity, in San Francisco.

December 30, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

When Silicon Valley’s AI warriors came to Washington

Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into Washington, its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital’s tech policy landscape.

Illustration by @eoinryanart for POLITICO

December 26, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

AI expert warns against telling your secrets to chatbots such as ChatGPT

Prof Mike Wooldridge will address looming questions around AI in this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures

By Editors Desk

Mike Wooldridge with the robot Ai-Da ahead of the Royal Institution Christmas lectures. Photograph: Kate Green/Getty Images

December 23, 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Humanoid Robots With Artificial Intelligence Have a Long Way to Go

Building convincing human-like robots is challenging, expensive and of questionable benefit, according to an expert in robotics and AI