US Bans Kaspersky Software
Using a Trump-era authority, the US Commerce Department has banned the sale of Kaspersky’s antivirus tools to new customers in the US, citing alleged threats to national security.
Research into ‘hallucinating’ generative models advances reliability of artificial intelligence
Researchers from the University of Oxford have made a significant advance toward ensuring that information produced by generative artificial intelligence (AI) is robust and reliable.
Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced
Adobe has issued new wording to explain how users’ content will be treated, after a backlash earlier this month from artists who believed their work will be used to train AI.
ElevenLabs unveils open-source creator tool for adding sound effects to videos
To showcase its Sound Effects API, ElevenLabs has released an open-source tool for creators that uses AI to apply sound effects to any uploaded video.Read More
‘Metroid Prime 4’ Gets a Release Date After Years of Troubled Development
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has a release date and a new gameplay trailer, both of which were announced at Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct.
Researchers teach AI to spot what you’re sketching
A new way to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to understand human line drawings — even from non-artists — has been developed.
Researchers leverage shadows to model 3D scenes, including objects blocked from view
Imagine driving through a tunnel in an autonomous vehicle, but unbeknownst to you, a crash has stopped traffic up ahead. Normally, you’d need to rely on the car in front of you to know you should start braking. But what if your vehicle could see around the car ahead and apply the brakes even sooner?
China’s DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source coding model to beat GPT-4 Turbo
DeepSeek Coder V2 is being offered under a MIT license, which allows for both research and unrestricted commercial use.Read More
Alex Jones Is Now Trying to Divert Money to His Father’s Supplements Business
Conspiracist Alex Jones has responded to his bankruptcy proceedings by urging viewers to spend money with his father’s company—which isn’t answerable to the Sandy Hook families.
Using illustrations to train an image-free computer vision system to recognize real photos
You’ve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a large language model (LLM) get the picture if it’s never seen images before?