Old-school mainframes could see renewed life with AI integration
Mainframes performing AI queries in the cloud is too slow, so AI is coming to mainframes
Nvidia says scraping 80 years' worth of videos daily to train its AI models is in "the spirit of copyright law"
YouTube seems to disagree
A hot potato: Once again, it's been revealed that a company has been scraping data from the internet to train its AI models using a questionable interpretation of copyright law. On this occasion, Nvidia has been downloading videos from YouTube, Netflix, and other platforms to gather data for its commercial AI products.
DARPA's ambitious plan to turn "legacy" C software into memory-safe Rust code with AI
In Rust we Trust: Modern programming languages designed to enforce memory safety are gaining popularity. Rust, a language initiated by software developer Graydon Hoare while working at Mozilla, is now the official choice for a complex conversion project announced by the Pentagon's research agency.
Study finds that including "AI" in product descriptions makes them less appealing to consumers
When indifference turns into active dislike
Facepalm: Companies love to shoehorn the term AI into their product descriptions, even if doing so seems weird or, at times, just stupid. They believe the inclusion of the initialism will appeal to consumers who want the latest cutting-edge tech. The reality, though, is that many people are put off when a product reveals its AI smarts.
OpenAI says it has a reliable tool for detecting ChatGPT-generated text, "considering" a release
Good news for teachers and suspicious bosses
The NFL is implementing facial authentication across all stadiums (updated)
Fans are not a part of the program, they will have their tickets scanned as normal
Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell chip may be facing delays due to design flaws
Customers that have spent billions on orders are surely not pleased
US Justice Department launches investigation into Nvidia following complaints from rivals
Allegations of strong-arming cloud providers sparked antitrust concerns
The big picture: It's been a whirlwind year for Nvidia, the tech juggernaut that's become virtually synonymous with AI computing hardware. From superb revenue figures to CEO Jensen Huang's headline-grabbing antics, the company has been in the spotlight for months. Now, the headlines grow sour as Nvidia has caught the eye of US antitrust regulators.
Proposed "No Fakes" Act will hold entities accountable for damages caused by deepfakes
People's voices and faces to get greater legal protection from AI impersonation
Argentina's president wants to predict crime using AI algorithms
New AI government unit will make fight against crime more effective and... timely?
AI companies to music labels: scraping copyrighted tracks on the internet to train algorithms is "fair use"
Udio and Suno say you can't own styles or genres
Chrome browser is getting AI features to let you compare data between tabs
In brief: Chrome is gaining three new AI features powered by Google's latest language models. There's a new Google Lens integration for visually searching any on-screen images and text, a Tab Compare feature that automatically generates product comparison overviews, and enhanced history search using natural language queries.
Yield problems reportedly leave Intel Meteor Lake supply constrained
Lunar Lake production remains ahead of schedule, set to launch in September
Reddit stands firm against AI companies scraping content for training without paying
"It's free as in speech, not free as in beer"
Army taps AI to upgrade existing missile systems against drone swarm threats
A $55 million contract has been awarded to a software company
Apple opted to use Google TPUs over Nvidia GPUs for its AI training
Google TPU v4 chips appear to offer comparable performance to Nvidia's H100 GPUs
Meta AI Studio lets you clone your personality into a chatbot
When life seems unreal, insert more articial intellegence products
Microsoft urges congress to enact laws against deepfake misuse
A legal framework is essential, says Microsoft's president
Apple Intelligence AI rollout has been delayed, meanwhile Samsung claims Galaxy AI closes in on 200 million devices
But how many people actually use Galaxy AI?
AMD launches Amuse: a local AI image generator featuring Stable Diffusion and XDNA Super Resolution
Amuse is an AI image generator that runs locally on your PC and employs AMD XDNA Super Resolution technology to upscale images to twice the resolution compared to Stable Diffusion. It currently runs only on modern AMD hardware.
AI can see what's on your screen by reading HDMI electromagnetic radiation
Researchers say the technique is already being used in the wild
Shiver me timbers: Security researchers have demonstrated that it's possible to spy on what's visible on your screen by intercepting electromagnetic radiation from video cables with great accuracy, thanks to artificial intelligence. The team from Uruguay's University of the Republic says their AI-powered cable-tapping method is good enough that these attacks are likely already happening.
Elon Musk's repost of digitally altered Kamala Harris video may violate X policies
Deceptive, or obvious satire?
Breakthrough CRAM technology ditches von Neumann model, makes AI 1,000x more energy efficient
From "crazy" idea to real-world energy savings
Nvidia Blackwell server cabinets could cost somewhere around $2 to $3 million each
Who is profiting from AI (besides Nvidia)?
Twitter/X is feeding your data to Grok AI by default – here's how you can opt out
Sparking backlash from users and regulators alike