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David Corn, a journalist at Mother Jones, tested Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot by asking it to write a novel and found the result 'not so bad,' though he notes the exercise sidesteps concerns about AI's economic and ethi…
Accenture's Change Reinvented research found that 95% of organizations underwent at least two transformations in three years, while only 30% of C-suite leaders expressed confidence in their change capabilities, and a McK…
The AI industry is heading for an inevitable bubble, and the biggest losers will be mid-tier 'wrapper' startups that rely on APIs like GPT-4 and Claude, as well as companies that over-leveraged on GPU hardware, according…
Anthropic announced that its Claude AI model can watermark AI-generated content but has not disclosed the technical method, leaving developers without a verification API or tool. The lack of transparency about detection …
HateAid, a German digital rights NGO, filed a criminal complaint on August 12 with the Frankfurt prosecutor's cybercrime unit ZIT against Meta Platforms Technologies Ireland Limited, Ray-Ban and Oakley under Luxottica Gr…
Forbes contributor Anisha Sircar reports that AI-generated videos are becoming more convincing, and outlines key warning signs and practical verification methods to help viewers spot them before sharing. The article high…
Simon Willison joined Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal on the Oxide and Friends podcast to discuss a turbulent period in AI, including a security incident at Hugging Face that was detected and diagnosed by AI, and the e…
In a Fast Company op-ed, Democratic strategist and former Obama administration official David Axelrod argues that the AI debate is fundamentally about control, not technology, citing that 80% of voters say they have no s…
AI music generator Suno has struck a licensing deal with music company BMG, paying for BMG's repertoire and training data use, as it prepares new label-backed models. BMG joins Warner Music Group in settling with Suno, w…
A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as 'Sam,' created the AI-generated MAGA influencer Emily Hart, a pickup-driving, Trump-supporting persona that gained thousands of followers within weeks through ri…
Anthropic is adding watermarking to its AI models in response to the European Union's AI law, a move that Ben Thompson of Stratechery criticizes as a terrible idea primarily for philosophical reasons. The watermarking te…
BMG and Suno announced a licensing deal on Tuesday (Aug. 11) that allows BMG's recorded and publishing works to be used for derivative works on Suno's platform, with artists and songwriters required to opt in and be comp…
A United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva overlooked AI's impact on elections, focusing instead on disinformation and deepfakes, despite evidence that AI embedded in electoral administration poses great…
BMG and Suno announced a global strategic alliance on August 12 covering BMG's recorded-music and publishing repertoire, with participating artists and songwriters to receive compensation and retain choice over involveme…
Enterprises rushing to deploy generative and agentic AI are repeating mistakes from the RPA era, according to technology leaders at Globant, Novo Nordisk, and Purpose Legal. Agustin Huerta, SVP of digital innovation at G…
A 2024 Nature paper finds that 'open' AI systems often lack precision in their claims of openness, and that openness alone does not reduce industry concentration in AI development. The authors, examining models, data, la…
Mistral AI has published a guide explaining how users can report harmful or illegal content on its services, including a form that requires selecting a category, providing the URL, describing the content, explaining why …
Mistral confirmed that it does not use the content of user conversations with Vibe for marketing or advertising purposes. However, if users have enabled marketing cookies, partners may use browser and device identifiers …
Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said on the 'Grit' podcast that AI will have a 'human cost' and that he wants every employee to be 'AI literate' in case their jobs are eliminated. Fogel predicted investment banks could …
A new analysis by venture capitalist Arram Sabeti argues that enterprise AI adoption often fails to boost company productivity because employees capture the gains as leisure time, citing a Goldman Sachs analyst who uses …