Tech & Society
Amazon Rethinks Cashier-Free Stores: Amazon scales back its AI-powered "Just Walk Out" checkout service
Amazon withdrew Just Walk Out, an AI-driven checkout service, from most of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores...
Tech & Society
Tech & Society
AI Trends in Depth: Stanford’s AI Index Report shows the state of AI in 2024
More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year.
Tech & Society
Think D̶i̶f̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶t̶ Small: Apple releases OpenELM, a family of smaller large language models.
Apple is thinking small — very small — with a new family of open large language models.
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
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.
Tech & Society
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.
Tech & Society
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.
Tech & Society
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.