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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, ...
Microsoft marches on in Asia with $2.2B AI and cloud investment in Malaysia
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will invest $2.2 billion in Malaysia over a four-year period, building a new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country and partnering with the government to open a National AI Center. “We are committed to supporting Malaysia’s AI transformation and ensure it benefits all Malaysians,” said Microsoft Chief ...
Group of US newspapers sues Open AI and Microsoft over copyright infringement
A coalition of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft Corp, alleging that they have engaged in “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their generative AI models. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, comes from the Chicago Tribune, ...
Ford probed in US after fatal collisions in self-driving cars
A U.S. road safety agency today said it has launched a probe into Ford Motor Co.’s BlueCruise driver assistance system following two fatal crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, said the driver-assistance software has been linked with a number of crashes, including two in 2024 that resulted in fatalities. The first happened ...
UK launches probe into Microsoft and Amazon’s partnerships with AI firms
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has begun a preliminary investigation into whether Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc.’s relationship with a number of AI startups breach the country’s merger rules. The two tech giants have invested millions of dollars into several AI startups. That includes Microsoft’s new ties with the Paris-based startup Mistral AI. The company, ...
EU opens probe into ‘toxic’ TikTok Lite and addiction concerns
ByteDance Ltd.-owned TikTok is looking at a possible large fine and a forced suspension in Europe after the European Commission today opened formal proceedings against the app under the Digital Services Act. These are tough days for the Chinese app, which is currently fighting a ban in the U.S. over national security concerns. In the ...
ChatGPT-4 impresses on ophthalmology exam, pointing to future triage use
A recent study published by the University of Cambridge’s School of Clinical Medicine shows that OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 performed almost as well in an ophthalmology exam as eye specialists while beating lesser-qualified doctors. According to Dr. Arun Thirunavukarasu, who led the study while at the University of Cambridge but is now with Oxford University Hospitals NHS ...
Five new members added to the US AI Safety Institute, including an AI ‘doomer’
The Department of Commerce today announced that it has added five people to the AI Safety Institute’s leadership team, including a man who once predicted that there was a 50% chance that artificial intelligence development would end in doom for humanity. As part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, the new ...