Google mentioned the word «AI» 121 times and gave out 1.5 «Gemini» per minute during the almost 2 hours of the I/O presentation
On May 14, Google I/O, a traditional annual event for developers, took place, where the company presents its latest web technologies and services.
«Dead bots» — a creepy new AI business that helps Chinese people survive the death of their loved ones
A somewhat creepy Chinese trend involves creating avatars of deceased relatives to communicate with them even after death and make it easier to survive the loss of a loved one.
Meet «Victoria» — the AI avatar of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, who will voice official statements
From now on, the AI avatar «Victoria» will comment on official statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Ukrainians abroad — effectively replacing «human» experts even in TV and radio broadcasts, Forbes reports.
Logitech announces a computer mouse with an AI button that launches ChatGPT with one click
Artificial intelligence everywhere at once — now to the Copilot key in future computers mice with the ChatGPT button will be added.
iOS 18 will get local AI. Apple’s big language model does without cloud computing
A starter set of new artificial intelligence features (read: new Siri) that Apple plans to add to iOS 18will not rely on cloud servers at all, reports Mark Gurman in the latest Power On digest for Bloomberg.
From now on, each of the US federal agencies must appoint a «chief AI officer»
According to the latest guidelines from the US Office of Management and Budget, all federal agencies must appoint a senior officer and governing boards to oversee all AI systems used internally.
AI Act — is done. So what will (and what will not) change the first full-fledged Law on Artificial Intelligence in the EU?
Last week, the EU Parliament voted for the approval of the Law on Artificial Intelligence, which was first presented three years ago — in fact, the document has passed the last bureaucratic round and is now approaching official implementation.
Viral photo of «Hollywood Mountain» in California turned out to be a fake generated by a neural network
Perhaps you’ve come across a stunning bird’s-eye view of «Hollywood Mountain» in California on Facebook or BlueSky? It turns out that it was completely generated by artificial intelligence — in fact, there is no place with that name.
Google pays publishers thousands of dollars to use its AI for writing texts
Publishers will receive a tidy sum if they publish at least 3 texts per day generated by Google’s new and not yet public generative tool, according to Adweek.
Huang is on a roll. The NVIDIA CEO gained $9.6 billion in one day and is about to enter the top 20 richest people
Together with capitalization of NVIDIA the unstoppable growth of the capital of the permanent captain of the «green» chipmaker and the most influential people — 61-year-old Jensen Huang with 3.5% of NVIDIA shares and a fortune of almost $70 billion is preparing to enter the top 20 richest according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Microsoft boosts Windows Photos with Generative Erase — AI-powered eraser analog of Google Magic Eraser
The much-hyped «Magic Eraser» for easily erasing unwanted objects (objects, people) in photos will not remain the prerogative of Google and Samsung smartphones — soon a similar AI tool called Generative Erase will be available to Windows computer owners. Microsoft has just announced Generative erase — a new AI feature that will provide the…
Meizu is leaving the smartphone market — goes all-in on AI instead
Meizu Technology following the example of LG is winding down its smartphone business (or rather, what’s left of it) — once one of the largest smartphone manufacturers, now owned by Chinese automaker Geely, saidThe company believes that the future belongs to artificial intelligence and will invest «everything in AI».
Richard Branson and Oppenheimer’s grandson urge to «stop» AI and climate disaster
They set out their demands in an open letter published on Thursday by The Elders organization (founded by — Branson and former South African President Nelson Mandela).