IT総合 Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition
One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today's video generators.
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IT総合 IT総合 Texas sues GM, saying it tricked customers into sharing driving data sold to insurers
Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday against GM over years of alleged abuse of customers’ data and trust. New car owners ...
IT総合 Crewed commercial SpaceX mission will traverse the poles like the explorers of old
Fram2 would launch into a polar orbit from Florida in late 2024, after which it will stay up at 425-450 kilometers of al...
IT総合 Artists’ lawsuit against generative AI makers can go forward, judge says
A class action lawsuit filed by artists who allege that Stability, Runway and DeviantArt illegally trained their AIs on ...
IT総合 Rabbit’s r1 refines chats and timers, but its app-using ‘action model’ is still MIA
A new "beta rabbit" mode adds some conversational AI chops to the Rabbit r1, particularly in more complex or multi-step ...
IT総合 Bilingual dictation assistant Silvia understands ‘Spanglish’ and other language mixtures
Natural language AI assistants tend to be excellent English speakers, and passable in other tongues — but if you are one...
IT総合 H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding
Many industries that rely on legacy energy sources are aiming to electrify or at least streamline their operations, but ...
IT総合 Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024....
IT総合 Copyright Office tells Congress: ‘Urgent need’ to outlaw AI-powered impersonation
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued the first part of a report on how AI may affect its domain, and its first recommend...
IT総合 Disinformation may ‘go nuclear’ rather than ‘go viral,’ researchers say
We say something “goes viral” because we tend to think of rumors and disinformation spreading the way that a...
IT総合 Zuckerberg touts Meta’s latest video vision AI with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Meta's machine learning model, Segment Anything, has a sequel: It now takes the model to the video domain, showing how f...
IT総合 ‘Model collapse’: Scientists warn against letting AI eat its own tail
If the models continue eating each other's data, perhaps without even knowing it, they'll progressively get weirder and ...
IT総合 Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas on accelerating everyday AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
As AI competition heats up, Perplexity has proven resilient due to its focus on using the technology strictly as a tool ...
IT総合 Moon cave! Discovery could redirect lunar colony and startup plays
What this means for the space industry is that theory has become reality: The possibility of designing a habitation with...
IT総合 Experiment finds AI boosts creativity individually — but lowers it collectively
A new study examines whether AI could be an automated helpmeet in creative tasks, with mixed results: It appeared to hel...
IT総合 Are ‘visual’ AI models actually blind?
The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multi-modal,” able to un...
IT総合 Data workers detail exploitation by tech industry in DAIR report
The essential labor of data work, like moderation and annotation, is systematically hidden from those who benefit from t...
IT総合 OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers
There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of Ope...
IT総合 Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd...
IT総合 AI-powered scams and what you can do about them
This is by no means a complete list, just a few of the most obvious tricks that AI can supercharge.
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IT総合 Forget the debate, the Supreme Court just declared open season on regulators
As the country reels from a Presidential debate that left no one looking good, the Supreme Court has swooped in with wha...
IT総合 FCC rule would make carriers unlock all phones after 60 days
The FCC wants to make it significantly easier for consumers to unlock their phones from their carriers, proposing that a...
IT総合 The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs
Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly...
IT総合 Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on reshaping the space economy at Disrupt 2024
The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab....
IT総合 Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense
No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.
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IT総合 Former NSA head joins OpenAI board and safety committee
The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for ...
IT総合 Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding...
IT総合 Cartwheel generates 3D animations from scratch to power up creators
Animating a 3D character from scratch is generally both laborious and expensive, requiring the use of complex software a...
IT総合 Kobo’s new e-readers are a sidegrade most can skip (with one exception)
Kobo put out a handful of new e-readers a few weeks back: color versions of the excellent Libra 2 and Clara, as well as ...
IT総合 WTF is AI?
What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today...