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OpenAI tightens its grip on news media with Vox Media and Atlantic partnerships
If you can’t beat them, join them: That might be the right sentiment in light of today’s news that OpenAI has just signed licensing deals with two of the U.S.’s biggest media companies, Vox Media Inc. and The Atlantic. Vox is the parent company of a number of popular media outlets, including the tech website ...
Elon Musk and Meta’s AI maestro Yann LeCun almost come to blows online
Meta Platforms Inc. AI Chief Scientist Yann LeCun spent some time on the X platform over Memorial Day weekend dueling with its owner, the billionaire and devoted contrarian Elon Musk. The spat was centered around Musk’s (pictured) $24 billion venture, xAI, his generative artificial intelligence startup that he hopes will get ahead of the likes ...
TikTok reports disruption of influence campaigns to limit state propaganda
The embattled Chinese social media app TikTok may have assuaged the concerns of some of its detractors with a new report today detailing how it’s limiting the reach of state-affiliated media accounts and how it’s dealing with influence campaigns. As we reach the halfway point of 2024, a year that will see global elections on ...
Amid growing deepfake fears, FCC chair wants more transparency around AI-generated political ads
Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today proposed disclosure rules for AI-generated content used in political ads. Rosenworcel is concerned about how AI-generated ads can mislead the public. If adopted, her proposal would not ban such ads but ensure that advertisers are transparent about them if they appear on TV or radio. Her proposal does ...
Microsoft’s AI screenshot function is being called a privacy nightmare
After Microsoft Corp. announced its Copilot+ Monday, potential consumers heard that personal computers running it could have a “photographic memory” of everything a person does on their machine, which has not surprisingly raised concern among some privacy experts. Copilot+ PCs will be shipped with a slew of artificial intelligence features, including “Recall,” or should it be ...
Sony warning to AI firms: Hands off our music!
The largest music publisher in the world, Sony Music Group, has sent out a letter to around 700 artificial intelligence developers and music streaming services stating that the music in its catalog is not free for use in training generative AI. The letter, which went to OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. and Google LLC, comes at a ...
Billionaire Frank McCourt is organizing a people’s bid to buy TikTok
Frank McCourt, the real estate mogul, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and a longtime critic of how tech companies use data, is reportedly assembling a consortium to buy TikTok’s U.S. business. In March, the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if it doesn’t split from its Beijing-based ...
TikTok announces new tools to flag AI-generated content automatically
The beleaguered social media app TikTok said today that it will start flagging artificial intelligence-generated content, becoming the first video app to do so. The content made with TikTok’s AI tools is already automatically flagged, and users on the platform are expected to add labels to the content if it has been artificially generated. The problem, ...
Microsoft’s bet on an AI-focused future continues with data center plan in Wisconsin
Microsoft Corp. today announced an investment package of $3.3 billion in Southeast Wisconsin, where the tech giant will build an artificial intelligence data center in the same place where Foxconn Technology Group’s $10 billion manufacturing plant project never came to fruition. The data center in Wisconsin follows a slew of hefty investments in AI that ...
OpenAI announces its new tool that can detect deepfake images
As fears mount over the proliferation of deepfake images that could influence this year’s many elections, OpenAI today announced the creation of a new tool to detect if an image was made with its own DALL-E AI image generator. Unfortunately, OpenAI’s deepfake detector only works successfully on images made by its own generative artificial intelligence, ...