Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google’s current models are “a little bit below the frontier” but says he’s “100% certain that we will be…
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Google’s election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides
Using access granted under the EU’s Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related search queries on Google and…
Runway’s Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time
AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls “Interface World Models.” Instead of running code, the system generates…
Google’s AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook
“Please get to a safe place or call emergency services”: That’s the advice Google’s AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African,…
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models.…
Instagram admits users often can’t tell AI profiles from real people
Instagram is replacing its “AI creator” tag with a new “AI-generated profile” label because users can’t tell AI profiles from real people. Singularity,…
OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate
OpenAI’s advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company. The article OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad…
China’s CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China’s top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is producing HBM3E for the first time in small quantities, a fast memory found in many…
OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task. Salesforce, Adobe, and several…
ChatGPT now faces stricter EU oversight as a very large search engine
The EU Commission is classifying ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act for the first time, with at least 45 million monthly…