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AI-powered Bing Chat gains three distinct personalities

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Ars Technica) On Wednesday, Microsoft employee Mike Davidson announced that the company has rolled out three distinct personality styles for its experimental AI-powered Bing Chat bot: Creative, Balanced,…

Biden administration wants to hold companies liable for bad cybersecurity

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Biden administration on Thursday pushed for new mandatory regulations and liabilities to be imposed on software makers and service providers in an attempt to shift the burden of…

DALL-E 2 and Midjourney can be a boon for industrial designers

Enlarge / A volcano-themed tissue box designed with the help of AI-assisted image generation (credit: Juan Nougera (CC-BY-SA)) Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of…

ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the availability of developer APIs for its popular ChatGPT and Whisper AI models that will let developers integrate them into their apps. An API (application programming…

Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of an electronic brain with an eyeball. (credit: Ars Technica) On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1, a multimodal model that can reportedly analyze images for content, solve…

New Windows 11 update puts AI-powered Bing Chat directly in the taskbar

Enlarge / The "new Bing" running directly from the Windows 11 taskbar. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is adding support for Bing Chat and the other "new Bing" features to the Windows taskbar as part…

Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural language…

Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care?

Enlarge (credit: Google) On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications…

Conservative News Corp. empire says hackers were inside its network for 2 years

Enlarge / Entrance to Fox News headquarters at NewsCorp Building in New York. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) (credit: Getty Images) News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal…

SpaceX unveils “V2 Mini” Starlink satellites with quadruple the capacity

Enlarge / SpaceX's V2 Mini Starlink satellites. (credit: SpaceX) With Starlink speeds slowing due to a growing capacity crunch, SpaceX said a launch happening as soon as today will deploy the first "V2…