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From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us

Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a photo of the queen of the universe, and a marketing photo of "Marshmallow…

The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now

Enlarge / If you have a bunch of Windows systems, Microsoft now has an app for that. It's called "Windows App." Microsoft just has a certain way with naming things. (credit: Microsoft) It…

Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral

Enlarge / Screen capture from a demo video of an AI-generated unauthorized David Attenborough voice narrating a developer's video feed. (credit: Charlie Holtz) On Wednesday, Replicate developer Charlie Holtz combined GPT-4 Vision (commonly…

No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon

Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that feel so exhausting about Windows 11. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Using Windows these days…

“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software

Enlarge / A shot of tldraw's "Make it Real" in action, provided by Ashe on X: "Ok...@tldraw is super fun. I iterated through ~10 builds today and it cost me $0.90 using GPT4.…

Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure one of its victims to pay up: reporting the victim to the US…

YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, YouTube announced it will soon implement stricter measures on realistic AI-generated content hosted by the service. "We’ll require creators to disclose when they've created altered or synthetic…

Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move

Enlarge / The Microsoft Copilot logo. (credit: Microsoft) On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed "Microsoft Copilot." The company also announced it will support OpenAI's recently…

Holy chips! Microsoft’s new AI silicon will power its chatty assistants

Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by the author to look as if AI itself were bursting forth from its…

Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code

Enlarge (credit: Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright nagging, a surprising number of developers still can’t bring themselves to keep their…