Latest Artificial intelligence News
Video game performers reach agreement with 80 video games on AI terms
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After striking for over a month, video game performers have reached agreements with 80 games that have signed interim or tiered budget agreements with the performers' union and accepted the artificial intelligence provisions they have been seeking. Members of...
How do you know when AI is powerful enough to be dangerous? Regulators try to do the math
How do you know if an artificial intelligence system is so powerful that it poses a security danger and shouldn’t be unleashed without careful oversight? For regulators trying to put guardrails on AI, it’s mostly about the arithmetic. Specifically, an AI model trained on 10 to...
Verizon is buying Frontier in $20B deal to strengthen its fiber network
Verizon is buying Frontier Communications in a $20 billion deal to strengthen its fiber network. Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday that the acquisition will also shore up its foray into artificial intelligence as well as connected smart devices. Frontier has...
UK competition watchdog clears Microsoft's hiring of AI startup's core staff
LONDON (AP) — British regulators on Wednesday cleared Microsoft's hiring of key staff from startup Inflection AI, saying the deal wouldn't stifle competition in the country's artificial intelligence market. The Competition and Markets Authority had opened a preliminary...
Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch data protection watchdog on Tuesday issued facial recognition startup Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) over its creation of what the agency called an “illegal database” of billion of photos of faces. The...
AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient
WASHINGTON (AP) — Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its...
California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AI
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers approved a host of proposals this week aiming to regulate the artificial intelligence industry, combat deepfakes and protect workers from exploitation by the rapidly evolving technology. The California Legislature, which is controlled...
Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say
Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The LAION research dataset is a huge index of online images and captions that’s been a...
California advances landmark legislation to regulate large AI models
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California landmark legislation to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote Wednesday that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed. ...
Police officers are starting to use AI chatbots to write crime reports. Will they hold up in court?
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body camera captured every word and bark uttered as police Sgt. Matt Gilmore and his K-9 dog, Gunner, searched for a group of suspects for nearly an hour. Normally, the Oklahoma City police sergeant would grab his laptop and spend another 30 to 45 minutes...
