Category: AI

– Michael Schumacher’s family awarded €200,000 in compensation from Die Aktuelle – Die Aktuelle published an AI-generated ‘interview’ with Schumacher, sparking outrage – Controversial incidents involving non-consensual AI-generated material like the Schumacher case raise ethical concerns and legal action from affected parties. The family of Formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher was awarded €200,000 in compensation…

1. Elon Musk predicts a future where AI will handle everything, leading to universal high income and abundance of goods and services. 2. Musk urges parents to limit children’s exposure to social media, which he believes is programmed by dopamine-maximizing AI. 3. Musk believes that brain-computer interfaces developed by Neuralink could give humans an advantage…

1. DeepL raised $300 million on a $2 billion valuation, Scale AI secured $1 billion with a valuation of $13.8 billion, and H raised $220 million in seed funding. 2. Corporate investors like Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Cisco, and ServiceNow are increasingly investing in AI startups. 3. Antitrust regulators in the U.K. and Europe…

– AI offended an actress and lost its voice – Sony doesn’t want AI to listen to its music – Researchers explore the “black box” to decode the AI mind This week in AI news, Scarlett Johansson was offended by the voice of GPT-4o, which sounded eerily like hers. Sony Music Group warned companies that…

1. Google’s AI lab DeepMind has released videos showcasing its new Veo artificial intelligence video platform 2. Veo allows users to control different camera angles and techniques for video creation 3. Users in the U.S. can join a waiting list for VideoFX to turn text prompts into AI videos powered by the Veo model Google’s…

1. Bolster has raised $14 million in funding to expand its AI-based approach to tackle phishing attacks through its CheckPhish portal and services for businesses. 2. Bolster’s machine learning algorithms track the internet to detect scam operations and shut them down at their root to prevent phishing attacks. 3. Microsoft’s venture fund M12 led the…

1. NVIDIA reported outstanding Q1 earnings, with revenue up by 262% and net income by over 600%, largely due to high demand for its AI data center chips. 2. The company announced a 10-for-1 stock split, leading to a surge in stock price, and now has a market cap of around $2.3 trillion, making it…

– OpenAI revealed GPT-4o before Google announced Gemini improvements, followed by Microsoft announcing Copilot+ PCs and AI improvements – Meta released a research paper on its multi-modal AI model Chameleon, claiming it competes with models like Gemini, GPT-4, and Llama-2 – Chameleon is built on an early-fusion token-based mixed-modal architecture, similar to Google’s Gemini, and…

– FCC proposed a $6 million fine for a scammer using voice-cloning tech to impersonate President Biden in illegal robocalls – AI platforms make creating fake voices easy, but using them in robocalls to suppress voters is illegal – FCC working to prevent misuse of generative AI technology in elections and consumer fraud The FCC…

1. NVIDIA delivered a stunning earnings report, with revenue increasing by 262% year-over-year to $26 billion and net income up by over 600% to $14.9 billion. 2. The company’s success was driven by high demand for its AI data center chips, with data center revenue surging by 427% to $22.6 billion. 3. NVIDIA also announced…