52+ min ago We're sure AI will be used to cure cancer or solve climate change any day now. In the meantime, its adherents are mostly using the astonishingly expensive tech to churn out loads of slop. One video generated by a man…...

2+ hour, 28+ min ago FBI Director Kash Patel said Saturday the agency is ramping up its use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to counter domestic and international threats. In a post on X, Patel said the FBI has been advancing its technology, calling AI…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago YouTube's janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions…...

4+ hour, 51+ min ago There are plenty of conventional indicators that signal that a product is turning heads: Weekly active user figures start to soar, products fly off the shelves, there is unsolicited praise. Shield AI wants to harness this traction and turn it…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The Air Force tasked Dantzig with figuring out new ways to solve optimization problems such as these. In response, he invented the simplex method, an algorithm that drew on some…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago Are AI companies incentivized to put the public's health and well-being first? According to a pair of physicians, the current answer is a resounding "no." "Amidst these dilemmas," the paper asks, "can public health rely on technology companies to effectively…...

5+ hour, 12+ min ago In the venture capital world, the word "bubble" usually serves as a warning shot'a signal to pull back before a market correction wipes out portfolios. But at the recent Fortune Brainstorm AI conference, two top investors argued that when it…...

5+ hour, 46+ min ago This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alexander Vasylenko, a financial analyst for a large steel producer who also does AI training work in his free time. He was born in Ukraine, worked for CIBC in Canada, and…...

21+ hour, 6+ min ago Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with a baked-in penchant for racism. The alarming findings were published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, showing that four leading AI-enhanced pathology…...

22+ hour, 29+ min ago All eyes are on the Big Tech LLM race and,at least in the eyes of investors, it seems like Google All eyes are on the Big Tech LLM race and, at least in the eyes of investors, it seems…...