Tech & Society
Deepfakes Become Politics as Usual: Deepfakes dominate as India’s election season unfolds.
Synthetic depictions of politicians are taking center stage as the world’s biggest democratic election kicks off.
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
Some Models Pose Security Risk: Security flaws exposed in Hugging Face’s repository and security features
Security researchers sounded the alarm about holes in Hugging Face’s platform.
Tech & Society
India Warns Devs — No Unreliable AI: India advises pre-approval for new AI deployments by tech firms.
India advised major tech companies to seek government approval before they deploy new AI models.
Tech & Society
Anthropic Ups the Ante: Anthropic introduces Claude 3, a new trio of multimodal models.
Anthropic announced a suite of large multimodal models that set new states of the art in key benchmarks.
Tech & Society
Google Tests Generative News Tools: Google funds newsrooms to test AI-powered article generation tools.
Google is paying newsrooms to use a system that helps transform press releases into articles.
Tech & Society
Google Releases Open Source LLMs: All we know about Google's Gemma-7B and Gemma-2B models
Google asserted its open source bona fides with new models. Google released weights for Gemma-7B, an 8.5 billion-parameter large language model intended to run GPUs, and Gemma-2B, a 2.5 billion-parameter version intended for deployment on CPUs and edge devices.
Tech & Society
Mistral AI Extends Its Portfolio: Mistral enhances AI landscape in Europe with Microsoft partnership and new language models.
European AI champion Mistral AI unveiled new large language models and formed an alliance with Microsoft.
Tech & Society
OpenAI’s Next Act?: OpenAI sets its sights on autonomous digital assistants.
OpenAI is focusing on autonomous agents that take action on a user’s behalf. The maker of ChatGPT is developing applications designed to automate common digital tasks by controlling apps and devices, The Information reported.
Tech & Society
Context Is Everything: Gemini 1.5 Pro, a leap in multimodal AI amid controversy over v1.0
An update of Google’s flagship multimodal model keeps track of colossal inputs, while an earlier version generated some questionable outputs.
Tech & Society
Gymnastics Judge’s Helper: AI system measures performances in Olympic-level gymnastics competitions.
Judges in competitive gymnastics are using an AI system to double-check their decisions.
Tech & Society
Generated Video Gets Real(er): OpenAI’s Sora, a new player in text-to-video generation
OpenAI’s new video generator raises the bar for detail and realism in generated videos — but the company released few details about how it built the system.
Letters
How to Think About the Privacy of Cloud-Based AI: How private is your data on cloud-based AI platforms? Here's a framework for evaluating risks.
The rise of cloud-hosted AI software has brought much discussion about the privacy implications of using it. But I find that users, including both consumers and developers building on such software