Perplexity’s grand theft AI What, exactly, is Perplexity’s innovation? | Image: The VergeIn every hype cycle, certain patterns of deceit emerge. In the last crypto boom, it was “ponzinomics” and “rug pulls.” In self-driving cars, it was “just five years away!” In AI, it’s seeing just how much unethical shit you can get away with. Perplexity is basically a rent-seeking midd…

Instagram is starting to let some creators make AI versions of themselves Illustration: Alex Castro / The VergeInstagram’s new “AI Studio” will let creators make AI chatbot versions of themselves, and Meta is starting to roll it out as an “early test” in the US, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his broadcast channel on Thursday. As part of the test, “you might start seeing AIs from your favorite creators and interest-…

Google touts ‘enterprise-ready’ AI with more facts and less make-believe The new Vertex AI capabilities aim to improve the accuracy of Google’s corporate chatbots. | Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty ImagesVertex AI, the Google Cloud development platform that allows companies to build services using Google’s machine learning and large language models, is getting new capabilities to help prev…

Vatican conference ponders who really holds the power of AI VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis has made artificial intelligence one of the main issues of his pontificate. The post Vatican conference ponders who really holds the power of AI appeared first on Religion News Service.

A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate Two duelling visions of the technological future

AI pioneer Illia Polosukhin, one of Google’s ‘Transformer 8,’ wants to democratize artificial intelligence Near co-founder Illia Polosukhin helped invent the transformer while at Google. He sat down with CNBC to tell how it happened and why AI should be open source.

YouTube is trying to make AI music deals with major record labels YouTube is expecting to launch new AI tools later this year that are trained off the back of these deals. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeAfter debuting a generative AI feature last year that produces music in the style of famous artists like Charli XCX, John Legend, and T-Pain, YouTube is now asking major record labels to allow it to c…

Crypto catches M&A frenzy as bitcoin miners chase AI boom Crypto companies are at the center of a wave of deal-making as bitcoin miners look for ways to use their massive data centers to jump into the world of AI.

Inside Europe’s tech hubs: France’s AI push puts it on the rise France has looked to position itself as Europe’s leading artificial intelligence hub, with companies like Mistral AI and H getting large amounts of funding.

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An AI-designed horse purse is tearing apart this small but passionate community Image: BagguIt all started with a nylon purse shaped like a horse. Baggu, the wildly popular brand of reusable shopping bags, announced earlier this month that it would be releasing a collaborative collection with New York-based brand Collina Strada. In the past, special-edition designer drops have been successful for Baggu: a previous collab so…

Gloo announces Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and YouVersion founder & CEO Bobby Gruenewald to join the AI the Church Hackathon Gloo The post Gloo announces Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and YouVersion founder & CEO Bobby Gruenewald to join the AI the Church Hackathon appeared first on Religion News Service.

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AI Product Images Hey folks, quick question maybe someone will know–are there any good AI platforms for directly placing your product(s) in images? For example I have a pair of blue light glasses I wanna sell along with a case but neither are in one image together. Can AI take a PNG of the glasses and put it in a high quality image of the case? There are just s…

NBC to Offer Olympics Highlights Narrated by AI-Generated Al Michaels NBC will offer a customized, daily highlight reel with A.I.-generated narration that sounds like the longtime broadcaster.

Figma announces big redesign with AI Image: FigmaFigma is announcing a bunch of new features at its Config conference today, including a major UI redesign, new generative AI tools to help people more easily make projects, and built-in slideshow functionality. Let’s start with the redesign, which is intended to “lay the foundation for the next decade,” according to a blog post. You…

NBC’s Paris Olympics coverage will have AI-generated recaps, split screen, and more Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty ImagesThe Paris 2024 Olympics are nearly here. The opening ceremony starts on July 26th, and this year’s events run through August 11th. On the main NBC channel, you can see hours of live morning and afternoon coverage of events like swimming and gymnastics ahead of a three-hour primetime recap, to go alon…

An AI version of Al Michaels will deliver Olympic recaps on Peacock Photo by Cooper Neill / Getty ImagesLegendary sportscaster Al Michaels is going to give daily, personalized recaps of the Paris Olympics on Peacock — well, an AI-generated Al Michaels voice will. In practice, the effect is a lot like hearing a sports announcer’s voice in a video game like Madden, except it’s spitting out lines about real-life sp…

Ora, Aiming to ‘Unlock Design Space for AI Dapps,’ Raises $20M The project, founded in 2022, says it aims to incorporate AI into decentralized applications with its “on-chain AI oracle.”

What the RIAA lawsuits mean for AI and copyright Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty ImagesUdio and Suno are not, despite their names, the hottest new restaurants on the Lower East Side. They’re AI startups that let people generate impressively real-sounding songs — complete with instrumentation and vocal performances — from prompts. And on Monday, a group of major record labels sued …