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Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images

Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, "Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king." (credit: @stratejake / X) On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its…

Ransomware associated with LockBit still spreading 2 days after server takedown

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Two days after an international team of authorities struck a major blow at LockBit, one of the Internet’s most prolific ransomware syndicates, researchers have detected a new round of…

Stability announces Stable Diffusion 3, a next-gen AI image generator

Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. (credit: Stability AI) On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation…

ChatGPT goes temporarily “insane” with unexpected outputs, spooking users

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI's AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of the AI assistant "having a stroke,"…

iMessage gets a major makeover that puts it on equal footing with Signal

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal…

Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family

Enlarge (credit: Google) On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights models built on technology similar to the more powerful but closed Gemini models.…

LockBit ransomware group taken down in multinational operation

Enlarge (credit: Rob Engelaar | Getty Images) Law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency have dealt a crippling blow to LockBit, one of the world’s most prolific cybercrime…

Will Smith parodies viral AI-generated video by actually eating spaghetti

Enlarge / The real Will Smith eating spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. (credit: Will Smith / Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Monday, Will Smith posted a video on his official…

After years of losing, it’s finally feds’ turn to troll ransomware group

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) After years of being outmaneuvered by snarky ransomware criminals who tease and brag about each new victim they claim, international authorities finally got their chance to turn the tables,…

New app always points to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

Enlarge / A photo of Galactic Compass running on an iPhone. (credit: Matt Webb / Getty Images) On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points…