IT総合 Hundreds of AI luminaries sign letter calling for anti-deepfake legislation
Hundreds in the artificial intelligence community have signed an open letter calling for strict regulation of AI-generat...
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IT総合 IT総合 House punts on AI with directionless new task force
The House of Representatives has founded a Task Force on artificial intelligence that will “ensure America continu...
IT総合 No ‘GPT’ trademark for OpenAI
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied OpenAI’s attempt to trademark “GPT,” ruling that the t...
IT総合 Largest text-to-speech AI model yet shows ’emergent abilities’
Researchers at Amazon have trained the largest ever text-to-speech model yet, which they claim exhibits “emergent&...
IT総合 SpaceX will deorbit 100 Starlink satellites with unidentified flaw
SpaceX announced today that it will be sending some 100 Starlink satellites to an early retirement after a flaw was iden...
IT総合 US Patent Office: AI is all well and good, but only humans can patent things
The question of where AI sits in the legal personhood stack isn’t as simple as it may seem (i.e. “nowhere...
IT総合 Meet Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss literally anything
Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what ...
IT総合 FCC officially declares AI-voiced robocalls illegal
The FCC’s war on robocalls has gained a new weapon in its arsenal with the declaration of AI-generated voices as &...
IT総合 Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild...
IT総合 AI-generated Biden calls came through shady telecom and Texan front ‘Life Corporation’
Voters in New Hampshire were treated in January to a call purporting to be from President Biden telling them not to vote...
IT総合 Spice up your desktop with these unusual keyboards from Keychron, HHKB, Cloud Nine, and others
Mechanical keyboards are everywhere these days, and there’s a larger variety now than than ever before. If youR...
IT総合 FCC moves to outlaw AI-generated robocalls
No one likes robocalls to begin with, but using AI-generated voices of people like President Biden makes them even worse...
IT総合 Justice hits eBay for $59 million for selling obviously illegal pill-counterfeiting gear
You don’t need to resort to the dark web to find your illicit pill counterfeiting presses and molds. Just go to eB...
IT総合 Cerulean empowers ocean pollution watchdogs with orbital observation
The vastness of the ocean allows polluters to evade detection in all but the most egregious violations. SkyTruth aims to...
IT総合 Drone couriers and virtual faces among Alchemist Accelerator’s demo day highlights
Today is demo day at Alchemist Accelerator, which focuses on very early stage startups from technical founders. 15 compa...
IT総合 Tomorrow.io’s radar satellites use machine learning to punch well above their weight
Those of us lucky enough to be sitting by a window can predict the weather just by looking outside, but for the less pri...
IT総合 OpenAI drops prices and fixes ‘lazy’ GPT-4 that refused to work
OpenAI is always making slight adjustments to its models and pricing, and today brings just such an occasion. The compan...
IT総合 FTC orders AI companies to dish on investments, partnerships and meetings
The FTC is aiming to unravel the complex and secretive corporate relationships in the top AI companies out there in a ne...
IT総合 Feds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today
A year to the day after it was proposed, the National AI Research Resource is coming online — at least in pilot form — a...
IT総合 Gamers flock to Palworld’s ‘Pokémon with guns’ despite copyright qualms
When Palworld made its inauspicious debut in a teaser a year or so back, few thought this strange, blatant Pokémon ripof...
IT総合 Japan’s SLIM mission makes historic Moon landing, but its time is running out
Japan’s long-planned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon has successfully touched down on the lunar surface, makin...
IT総合 Astroscale takes the wraps off its $25M orbital refueling craft for Space Force
Orbital operations company Astroscale has revealed new details about its approach to refueling satellites in space, as p...
IT総合 Land Moto accelerates its electric bike battery play with $3M infusion
Cleveland-based electric motorcycle startup Land Moto is looking to diversify by powering up the battery design side of ...
IT総合 NASA’s robotic, self-assembling structures could be the next phase of space construction
Bad news if you want to move to the Moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as as always) ...
IT総合 Navier partners with Stripe to offer electric boat commute to far-flung employees
Electric boat startup Navier has landed the first official pilot program for its hydrofoiling watercraft, partnering wit...
IT総合 X-59 ‘Quiet supersonic’ jet from NASA and Lockheed finally rolls out
NASA and Lockheed Martin have finally taken the wraps off of the X-59, a “quiet supersonic” aircraft that ma...
IT総合 OpenAI changes policy to allow military applications
In an unannounced update to its usage policy, OpenAI has opened the door to military applications of its technologies. W...
IT総合 From voice synthesis to fertility tracking, here are some actually helpful AI products at CES
“AI” was everywhere this year at CES; you couldn’t swing a badge without hitting some company claiming...
IT総合 Nwm’s open-air headphones are literally not there
A new audio brand spun out of Japan’s NTT is showing off some personal audio tech at CES 2024 that is remarkable n...
IT総合 Smart molluscs – yes, smart molluscs – could watch our waterways 24/7 for pollution
If the clams could speak, what would they say? Surely we all ask ourselves this question every day. But a French startup...