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UK regulator investigates X over Grok AI's role in generating sexualized deepfakes

British media regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into X over the AI chatbot Grok. The probe follows reports in recent weeks that Elon Musk's chatbot and social media platform were ...
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Apple turns to Google's Gemini as Siri's technical debt becomes too much to handle

Apple will use Google's Gemini models for its AI features, including a revamped version of Siri. The multi-year partnership means Apple will rely on Google's Gemini and cloud technology for its ...
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Chinese AI industry admits US remains ahead for now

Leading figures in China's AI industry are tempering expectations: China won't overtake the US in the AI race anytime soon. Justin Lin, head of Alibaba's Qwen model series, puts the odds of a Chinese ...
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EU orders X to preserve all Grok-related documents through 2026

The European Commission has ordered Elon Musk's platform X to preserve all internal documents and data related to the AI chatbot Grok through the end of 2026. A Commission spokesperson confirmed the ...
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Claude creator Anthropic reportedly hits $350 billion valuation as it raises another $10 billion

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is raising $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion - nearly double its $183 billion valuation from just four months ago. Singapore's sovereign ...
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Elon Musk's X may have become the leading platform for non-consensual deepfakes

Elon Musk's platform X has emerged as the primary distribution hub for AI-generated images that digitally undress people without their consent. Within just 24 hours, the chatbot generated roughly ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Read full article about: New Apple-Google deal pushes ChatGPT to the sidelines on iPhone Apple's expanded partnership with Google relegates ChatGPT to a backup option on iPhone. An Apple spokesperson ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Google Deepmind updates Veo 3.1 with reference image function for more dynamic videos Google Deepmind has updated Veo 3.1 with new features for generating video from reference ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: AI images complicate search for escaped monkeys in St. Louis Several monkeys have escaped in St. Louis, and AI-generated images are making the search for the animals harder, ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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Anthropic launches "Skills" so Claude can automatically pick prompts for specialized tasks

Anthropic is launching "Skills", a modular feature for its AI assistant Claude that allows it to perform specialized tasks more efficiently by automatically selecting and loading the necessary ...
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Deepfakes: How it all began - and where it could lead us

AI-faked images and videos - so-called deepfakes - have developed rapidly in recent years. Here, we trace the history and describe the most important milestones. What do all the people in the cover ...