reader comments 98 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of previously announced technologies in a low-key presentation that included losing… Read More »
reader comments 15 with 0 posters participating Share this story Big Tech companies are aggressively pursuing investments and alliances with artificial intelligence startups through their cloud computing arms, raising regulatory questions over their role as both suppliers and competitors in the battle to develop “generative AI.” Google’s recent $300 million bet on San Francisco-based Anthropic… Read More »
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an exploding ball of music. Ars Technica reader comments 54 with 0 posters participating Share this story On Thursday, researchers from Google announced a new generative AI model called MusicLM that can create 24 KHz musical audio from text descriptions, such as “a calming violin melody backed by a… Read More »
Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images reader comments 34 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of… Read More »
Enlarge / An illustration of a chatbot exploding onto the scene, being very threatening. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 83 with 0 posters participating Share this story ChatGPT has Google spooked. On Friday, The New York Times reported that Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin held several emergency meetings with company executives… Read More »
Enlarge / AI image synthesis advances in 2022 have made images like this one possible, which was created using Stable Diffusion, enhanced with GFPGAN, expanded with DALL-E, and then manually composited together. Benj Edwards / Ars Technica reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story More than once this year, AI experts have… Read More »
Enlarge / APT37, a group believed to be backed by the North Korean government, has found success exploiting the bits of Internet Explorer still present in various Windows-based apps. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 22 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft’s Edge browser has replaced Internet Explorer in almost every regard,… Read More »
Joe Raedle / Getty reader comments 49 with 35 posters participating Share this story When Hurricane Ian churned over Florida in late September, it left a trail of destruction from high winds and flooding. But a week after the storm passed, some people in three of the worst-hit counties saw an unexpected beacon of hope.… Read More »
Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern chairs and smart statement globes. reader comments 65 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story The specification for Matter… Read More »
Still from “A teddy bear washing dishes,” as generated by Google Imagen Video. reader comments 59 with 49 posters participating Share this story Today, Google announced the development of Imagen Video, a text-to-video AI mode capable of producing 1280×768 videos at 24 frames per second from a written prompt. Currently, it’s in a research phase,… Read More »