Apple is working on Manzano, a new image model designed to handle both image understanding and image generation. This dual capability is a technical hurdle that has kept most open-source models a step ...

Cognitive scientist Melanie Mitchell is pushing back against recent New York Times columns by writer Thomas Friedman, criticizing his framing of advanced AI. In his pieces, Friedman calls for close ...

Notion has responded to security concerns about its AI agents (see below). To counter prompt injection attacks—hidden manipulations in user inputs or uploaded files—Notion has upgraded its internal ...

Physicist David Deutsch argues that you can't test for AGI the way you test a piece of software. Instead, what sets humans apart is that they have their own history, shaped by choosing what matters to ...

Previous speech generation models typically struggled with longer outputs or group conversations. According to Microsoft's technical report, VibeVoice is the first to handle hour-and-a-half-long group ...

Microsoft is developing a pilot project called the "Publisher Content Marketplace" (PCM), Axios reports. The platform would let publishers sell their content to AI products like Microsoft Copilot.

A new study challenges a core assumption in AI: instead of massive datasets, just 78 carefully chosen training examples may be enough to build superior autonomous agents. Researchers from several ...

Meta's Code World Model (CWM) is designed not just to generate code but to understand how that code runs on a computer. "To master coding, one must understand not just what code looks like but what it ...

Until now, all these features were only available in the paid version, ChatGPT Plus. Since mid-May, GPT-4o, a GPT-4 class multimodal model, is also available for free in ChatGPT for the first time.

StockAI offers only AI-generated images in typical stock photo style. The website advertises that all images are originals that are not available in any other database. It was bound to happen: ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup has given preliminary approval to the $1.5 billion settlement in the copyright lawsuit between a group of authors and AI company Anthropic, as described below. Alsup ...

In the race for AI supremacy, there are two possible winners and the EU. An overview and assessment of the status quo. The global race to develop the best AI systems is in full swing. For years, the ...