Tech & Society
Benchmarks for Industry: Vals AI evaluates large language models on industry-specific tasks.
How well do large language models respond to professional-level queries in various industry domains? A new company aims to find out.
Tech & Society
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Songs Made to Order: Text-to-music services evolve with Udio and Suno’s customized song creations.
A new breed of audio generator produces synthetic performances of songs in a variety of popular styles.
Tech & Society
GPT Store Shows Lax Moderation: A report exposes policy violations in OpenAI’s GPT Store.
OpenAI has been moderating its GPT Store with a very light touch. In a survey of the GPT Store’s offerings, TechCrunch found numerous examples of custom ChatGPT instances that appear to violate the store’s own policies.
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Hallucination Creates Security Holes: Researcher exposes risks in AI-generated code
Language models can generate code that erroneously points to software packages, creating vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.
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Custom Agents, Little Coding: All about Google’s Vertex AI Agent Builder
Google is empowering developers to build autonomous agents using little or no custom code.
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What Users Do With Generative AI: Studies from Filtered and Pew uncover trends in generative AI usage
Generative AI is being used mostly to generate ideas. The tech consultancy Filtered studied the most common uses for generative AI. While most gen AI users produced text, the study surprisingly found that users were slightly more likely to generate videos than images.
Business
Instability at Stability AI: Stability AI CEO steps down as company faces financial and market challenges
The CEO of Stability AI resigned as the company faces an increasingly competitive market.
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Coding Agents Proliferate: Next-generation coding tools empower developers with agent-style interactions
New coding tools act like agents to automate software programming tasks.
Science
Toward Managing AI Bio Risk: Over 150 scientists commit to ensure AI safety in synthetic biology research.
Scientists pledged to control their use of AI to produce potentially hazardous biological materials.
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Microsoft Absorbs Inflection: Microsoft pays Inflection AI $650 Million, hires most of its staff
Microsoft took over most of the once high-flying chatbot startup Inflection AI in an unusual deal.
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U.S. Deploys AI-Assisted Targeting: Maven, a system that analyzes satellite data to identify targets in real-world conflicts
The United States military is using computer vision to target enemy positions in the Red Sea and elsewhere.
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One Agent, Many Environments: SIMA, a system that understands and plays diverse 3D video games
AI agents are typically designed to operate a particular software environment. Recent work enabled a single agent to take actions in a variety of three-dimensional virtual worlds.