America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
…The company notoriously allowed sexually explicit AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift to spread in 2024, followed weeks later by a video users believed to be of the rapper Drake engaged in a…
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Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be “introducing new technologies and innovations that push the limits on what’s…
Microsoft’s new Xbox shake-up is all about platform changes
…Evan Chaki, a former general manager in CoreAI, is joining a new team in Xbox to “lead a forward-deployed engineering group focused on removing repetitive work, simplifying development, and improving how…
I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works
…It’s only in a developer beta now, but it’s realer than the first AI Siri we were shown at WWDC ever was. Apple needs this version of Siri to earn…
Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands
…In the context of AI, President Joe Biden moved to control AI model weights — the core data that makes a model work that can be copied and run elsewhere — in this manner…
Pragmata is just okay, but it could’ve been great
…Getting in their way is a rogue AI that now controls the colony and seems to have a distaste for humans, turning every bot into a murderous machine. [Image: https://platform.theverge…
tvOS 27, where art thou?
…Even visionOS was included with new Siri AI features. tvOS was conspicuously absent, including from Apple’s website. In a recent announcement of upcoming accessibility features, Apple mentioned larger text support is…
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
…But you do not want to be a single-product company in a platform war. As AI spreads beyond developers into every team, workflow, and industry, that narrowness can become a real…
OpenAI talks about not talking about goblins
…creatures,” the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling references to the creatures a “strange habit” its models developed as a result of their training. As outlined in the blog…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
Last August, some of the best cybersecurity teams in the business gathered in Las Vegas to demonstrate the strength of their AI bug-finding systems at DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge…