Musk’s image generation tool ‘unleashing torrent of misinformation’

The tool has been added to Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok.

Chatbots in science: What can ChatGPT do for you?

Nature, Published online: 14 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02630-zMilton Pividori spent a year and a half studying how best to use ChatGPT in research. Here, he highlights ...

China court rulings on AI accelerate race to set standards

OpenAI worries its AI voice may charm users

OpenAI says it is concerned that a realistic voice feature for its artificial intelligence might cause people to bond with the bot at the cost of human interactions.

A publishing platform that places code front and centre

Nature, Published online: 07 August 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02577-1Curvenote creates interactive publications based on digital-coding notebooks and aims to increase the ...

Google Pixel 9 review: the phone that Android needs

The Pixel 9 is the Android flagship for anyone who just wants a dang phone. Continue reading…

Engadget review recap: The Pixel 9 phones are surprisingly great, in spite of their price

Welcome back to another Engadget Review Recap (or as I prefer to call it, ERR). This is the second edition of a mostly bi-weekly series rounding up the reviews that our team has published, as ...

Pixel 9 Pro XL vs. Galaxy S24 Ultra Camera Comparison: A High-End Head to Head

We snapped some photos with Google's and Samsung's premium devices to see how their cameras stack up.

Google Pixel 9 Screen Works When Wet Thanks to 'Adaptive Touch'

The feature debuted with the Pixel 9 series.

Google Pixel 9a Allegedly Spotted With A Bigger Display And Refreshed Design

Leaked images of what might be a Google Pixel 9a prototype has caught the industry by surprise with a major change to one of the Pixel's biggest design elements. Sporting flat sides and sharper ...

Google's Reimagine AI tool works well, perhaps too well, so it can be easily abused

One of the Pixel 9's standout features, the Reimagine tool, is already facing criticism from reviewers. This innovative feature is part of Google Photos' Magic Editor and allows you to simply ...

No one’s ready for this

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Stuart Franklin Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. Continue reading… ...

Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos

Magic Editor’s new tool helped us add the bike and car with nothing more than a text prompt. | Photo: The Verge As it turns out, a rabbit wearing an AI-generated ...

Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place

The AI is inconsistent, but the hardware is oh so good. Continue reading…

Midjourney releases new unified AI image editor on the web

The update comes amid intensifying competition in the AI image generation space from the likes of Elon Musk's permissive Grok-2.Read More

Google’s upgraded AI image generator is now available

Imagen 3 created this image of Google’s logo. | Image: Emma Roth / Imagen 3 Google has released the latest version of Imagen 3, its AI text-to-image generator, ...

Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha Turbo is here and can make AI videos faster than you can type

Gen-3 Alpha Turbo should be priced at 5 credits per 1 second of video per Runway's statement that it is 50% less.Read More

xAI’s new Grok-2 chatbots brings AI image generation to X

Image: xAI Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini: two new models of its Grok chatbot that offer upgraded performance and new image-generation ...

OpenAI updates ChatGPT to new GPT-4o model based on user feedback

Intrepid users have already found that it appears to exhibit step-by-step or multi-step reasoning and more detailed explanationsRead More

I Paid $5 to Clone My Voice Using AI. It Was Pretty Trippy

A 60-second clip creates an audio doppelganger that can speak 32 languages.

Why this AI startup is betting on voice-enabled bots to scale AI adoption in India

Sarvam's voice-enabled AI agents can be deployed on WhatsApp, within an app, and can even work with traditional voice calls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Artists celebrate as copyright infringement case against AI image generators moves forward

The case can move forward toward a discovery phase — which allows the lawyers for the artists to peer inside AI image generator companies.Read More

OpenAI Warns ChatGPT's Voice Mode Could Make Us Emotionally Reliant On AI

There have been various movies and TV shows highlighting emotional bonds with artificial intelligence (AI), such as the movie Her and, if going back much further into the archives, the sitcom ...

The FCC proposes requiring robocallers to disclose when they’re using AI

Illustration by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed a new set of rules this week that would require robocallers ...

Researchers worry about AI turning humans into jerks

It has never taken all that much for people to start treating computers like humans. Ever since text-based chatbots first started gaining mainstream attention in the early 2000’s, a small ...

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing

Enlarge (credit: Ole_CNX via Getty Images) On Thursday, OpenAI released the "system card" for ChatGPT's new GPT-4o AI model that details model limitations and safety testing ...

ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3

Image: The Verge OpenAI is going to let users of ChatGPT’s free tier make up to two images per day with its DALL-E 3 model, the company announced on Thursday. ...

OpenAI finds that GPT-4o does some truly bizarre stuff sometimes

OpenAI’s GPT-4o, the generative AI model that powers the recently launched alpha of Advanced Voice Mode in ChatGPT, is the company’s first trained on voice as well as text and image ...

OpenAI adds a Carnegie Mellon professor to its board of directors

OpenAI has announced a new appointment to its board of directors: Zico Kolter. Kolter, a professor and director of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon, predominantly focuses his ...

OpenAI has the tech to watermark ChatGPT text—it just won’t release it

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) According to The Wall Street Journal, there's internal conflict at OpenAI over whether or not to release a watermarking tool that would allow ...

OpenAI confirms it has a reliable tool for detecting ChatGPT-generated text, "considering" a release

News that OpenAI has a system that can watermark ChatGPT-created text and detect it was revealed by The Wall Street Journal. The tool has been ready for about a year, but there is debate within ...

OpenAI confirms it’s looking into text watermarking for ChatGPT that could expose cheating students

Following a report from The Wall Street Journal that claims OpenAI has been sitting on a tool that can spot essays written by ChatGPT with a high degree of accuracy, the company has shared a ...

OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught

Image: The Verge OpenAI has had a system for watermarking ChatGPT-created text and a tool to detect the watermark ready for about a year, reports The Wall Street ...

OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT

OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The Wall Street Journal, the company is debating whether ...

The Best Pixel 9 Cases and Accessories, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

Whether you went big with the Pixel 9 Pro XL or small with the Pixel 9, we've got a selection of cases, including MagSafe cases, to kit out your new Android phone.

Google Pixel 9a leak hints at major design changes – but we're not convinced

Images of the rumored Google Pixel 9a have supposedly surfaced online, showing squared edges and a ...

ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode First Impressions: Fun, and Just a Bit Creepy

The new voice feature from OpenAI for ChatGPT is often entertaining, and will even do a Trump impression. It likely rolls out to all paid users this fall.

Patient, upbeat AI companions are probably rewiring kids’ brains 

The proliferation of friendly, often sexually suggestive, chatbots is ‘making it so easy to make a bad choice,’ one observer says. As a sophomore at a large public North Carolina university, ...

Google Pixel 9 Review | Undoubtedly one of the best compact options available today

The new Google Pixel 9 comes with a fresh design and looks, upgraded chipset, camera, software, and lots of generative AI features

Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI launches GenAI services for enterprises 

The startup also released an open-source 2B Indic large language model called Sarvam 2B which has been trained from scratch on an internal dataset of 4 trillion tokens

ChatGPT users can now create up to two pictures per day for free with DALL-E 3 model

DALL-E 3 has some key improvements including being able to suggest prompts to create an image

Why OpenAI’s AI detection tool may stay under wraps

However, almost 30% of the respondents also said that they would use the tool less often if OpenAI watermarked the text