The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his AI-generated shorts are going viral and Hollywood is calling. Source
Google hit with $271M fine over Gemini AI tool copyright breach
France’s competition watchdog on Wednesday said it fined Alphabet’s Google $271.7 million for breaches linked to EU intellectual property rules in its relationship with media publishers, citing concerns about the company’s AI service....
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
In 2023, OpenAI told the UK parliament that it was “impossible” to train leading AI models without using copyrighted materials. It’s a popular stance in the AI world, where OpenAI...
Facebook, Instagram down as Meta experiences spike in outages for second time in two weeks
Facebook and Instagram are both experiencing a spike in the number of users reporting outages, according to DownDetector. The Post has sought comment from Meta, the parent company that owns...
Computer games can cause erectile dysfunction: study
Too much screen time is literally making men soft: Chinese scientists found that playing computer games for a prolonged period can drastically increase someone’s likelihood of experiencing erectile dysfunction, per...
8 Google Employees Invented Modern AI. Here’s the Inside Story
The last two weeks before the deadline were frantic. Though officially some of the team still had desks in Building 1945, they mostly worked in 1965 because it had a...
Chinese platforms are cracking down on influencers selling AI lessons
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Over the last year, a few Chinese...
Apple's MM1 AI Model Shows a Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up
A research paper quietly released by Apple describes an AI model called MM1 that can answer questions and analyze images. It’s the biggest sign yet that Apple is developing generative...
NYC robot barista makes you coffee — but it also demands a tip
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto. An android barista kiosk in Hudson Yards is causing coffee drinkers to short-circuit from excitement as the mocha-making machine autonomously handles their orders. But what this...
Google DeepMind’s new AI assistant helps elite soccer coaches get even better
Soccer teams are always looking to get an edge over their rivals. Whether it’s studying players’ susceptibility to injury, or opponents’ tactics—top clubs look at reams of data to give...
Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by representing the arrangement of players as a graph, with the...
Sneaky invisible texting trick kids use to fool parents revealed
It’s an act of text-pionage. A concerned parent has issued a warning after she discovered her child sending “concealed” texts to their friends, as detailed in a viral Reddit post....
The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. It’s official. After three years, the...
What Happens When a Guy and His AI Girlfriend Go to Therapy
Annie feels a jolt of alarm. “I could just set her there,” Doug says. “That’s easy enough.” “I know, but it would be better if she could do it herself.”...
Kids’ Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube’s Deepfake Disclosure Rules
YouTube has updated its rulebook for the era of deepfakes. Starting today, anyone uploading video to the platform must disclose certain uses of synthetic media, including generative AI, so viewers...
