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This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything
MIT engineers developed a tag that can reveal with near-perfect accuracy whether an item is real or fake. The key is in the glue on the back of the tag.
Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up
The airline tried to argue that it shouldn't be liable for anything its chatbot says.
Sierra Says Conversational AI Will Kill Apps and Websites
Sierra hopes every company will use its empathetic AI chatbots for customer interactions.
OpenAI’s Sora Turns AI Prompts Into Photorealistic Videos
OpenAI's entry into generative AI video is an impressive first step.
Google’s new AI hub in Paris proves that Google feels insecure about AI
This morning, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai inaugurated a new hub in Paris dedicated to artificial intelligence. This hub is located in a newly renovated building near Google’s main office in Paris. It will host around 300 researchers and engineers. But if you pay close attention to Google’s whereabouts in Paris, you may think that Google […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Some People Actually Kind of Love Deepfakes
AI fakes are a disinformation menace. But some politicians, executives, and academics see them as a way to extend their reach.
Tigran Sloyan from CodeSignal talks closing the talent gap and mitigating bias in hiring
This week Becca and Dom are joined by Tigran Sloyan, the co-founder and CEO of skills assessment platform CodeSignal. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bulletin is a new AI-powered news reader that tackles clickbait and summarizes stories
After the shutdown of the buzzy AI news app Artifact from Instagram’s founders, a new app called Bulletin is also now turning to AI to help remove clickbait and summarize the day’s news. Except in this case, users can customize news sources the app features, as you could in any other RSS reader, instead of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Google’s Flagship Gemini AI Model Gets a Major Upgrade
Just two months after Alphabet made its Gemini AI model public, it’s rolling out a new version that can handle several times as much audio, video, and text input as GPT-4.
.406 Ventures secures $265M for fifth fund
When looking at startups within healthcare, data and AI and cybersecurity, the firm considers a number of factors like the plan for infrastructure, especially now that AI is everywhere. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Here Comes the Flood of AI-Generated Clickbait
This week, we look at how domain squatters are using generative AI tools to crank out clickbait, and ask what Google is doing about it.
Video generation models as world simulators
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.
Using AI to discover stiff and tough microstructures
Innovative AI system from MIT CSAIL melds simulations and physical testing to forge materials with newfound durability and flexibility for diverse engineering uses.
‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare
Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use weak password protections, and aren’t transparent, new research from Mozilla says.
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
We terminated accounts associated with state-affiliated threat actors. Our findings show our models offer only limited, incremental capabilities for malicious cybersecurity tasks.
Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’
In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri’s co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup at around $200 million, according to reports. Though the hosting company didn’t telegraph its plans for GamePlanner at the time, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky today shared a high-level overview of Airbnb’s larger plans […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory
ChatGPT is now like a first date who never forgets the details.
Otter brings GenAI to your meetings with AI summaries, AI chat and more
Otter, the AI-powered meeting assistant that transcribes audio in real time, is adding another layer of AI to its product with today’s introduction of Meeting GenAI, a new set of AI tools for meetings. Included with GenAI is an AI chatbot you can query to get information about past meetings you’ve recorded with Otter, an […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The One Internet Hack That Could Save Everything
It’s so simple: Axe 26 words from the Communications Decency Act. Welcome to a world without Section 230.
Memory and new controls for ChatGPT
We’re testing the ability for ChatGPT to remember things you discuss to make future chats more helpful. You’re in control of ChatGPT’s memory.
