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FSF: Chrome’s JPEG XL killing shows how the web works under browser hegemony

Enlarge / When Google, whose Chromium/Chrome-related browsers make up 80% of browser share, says that something has "not enough interest from the entire ecosystem," what does that mean, exactly? (credit: Aurich Lawson) Chrome…

Adobe teases generative AI video tools

Enlarge / A demo of Firefly AI generation in Adobe Premiere. (credit: Adobe) On Monday, Adobe announced plans to add AI video synthesis tools to Premiere Pro and After Effects, reports Reuters. This…

Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a "self-improving robot." (credit: Midjourney) Since the launch of OpenAI's GPT-4 API last month to beta testers, a loose group of developers have been experimenting with making…

Generative AI comes to Amazon Web Services

Enlarge / An AI generated image of a "colorful data center." (credit: Midjourney) On Thursday, Amazon released a new suite of AI technologies, including foundational large language models (LLMs) called Titan and a…

“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model

Enlarge (credit: Databricks) On Wednesday, Databricks released Dolly 2.0, reportedly the first open source, instruction-following large language model (LLM) for commercial use that's been fine-tuned on a human-generated data set. It could serve…

UMG tells Apple and Spotify to block AI lyric, melody scraping

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images via Getty) Universal Music Group has told streaming platforms, including Spotify and Apple, to block artificial intelligence services from scraping melodies and lyrics from their copyrighted songs, according to…

Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) By now, you’ve probably heard about a new AI-based password cracker that can compromise your password in seconds by using artificial intelligence instead of more traditional…

Elon Musk reportedly purchases thousands of GPUs for generative AI project at Twitter

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of "a cyborg Twitter bird logo composed of thousands of computer chips." (credit: Midjourney) Despite recently calling for a six-month pause in the development of powerful AI models,…

China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images) China proposed new checks on artificial intelligence chatbots on Tuesday, in an effort to control how its tech industry rolls out generative AI models, as popularized by…

Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town

Enlarge / A screenshot of the "Generative Agents" demo where 25 AI-controlled characters live out life in a town called Smallville. (credit: J.S. Park, J.C. O’Brien, C.J. Cai, M. Morris, P. Liang, M.S.…