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17 Nov

‘Have your bot speak to my bot’: can AI productivity apps turbocharge my life?

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Steven Johnson has a reputation as a research software nerd. The author of 13 nonfiction books, he’s constantly looking for digital tools to streamline his creative process. So when large language models – which power text-generating AI tools such as ChatGPT – started getting attention, he was most interested in what they could mean for organising information.In 2022, an article Johnson wrote about LLMs for the New York Times caught the eye of researchers at Google Labs, the tech company’s experimental AI arm, who came to him with a proposition: would he help them develop the kind of digital research…

16 Nov

Coke’s AI Commercial for the Holidays Has Us Wondering If We Live In a Fallen World

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Absolutely hideous.Chilly ReceptionCoke is cashing in on your nostalgia by remaking one of its best-known commercials with all new tech: generative AI.'Tis the season indeed. The Coca-Cola Company's recently unveiled ad for the holidays is a twee callback to its 1995 ad "Holidays Are Coming," which for many has been a staple of this time of year ever since it first aired.We don't recommend having emotional attachments to marketing ploys, but defiling the nearly thirty-year-old original with AI has upset many among the Coke-ad fandom."Why would you replace such a memorable ad with AI slop???" tweeted one user on X."Crazy…

16 Nov

Our brains are vector databases — here’s why that’s helpful when using AI

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In 2014, a breakthrough at Google transformed how machines understand language: The self-attention model. This innovation allowed AI to grasp context and meaning in human communication by treating words as mathematical vectors — precise numerical representations that capture relationships between ideas. Today, this vector-based approach has evolved into sophisticated vector databases, systems that mirror how our own brains process and retrieve information. This convergence of human cognition and AI technology isn’t just changing how machines work — it’s redefining how we…

16 Nov

The Top Image of William Shakespeare on Google is Lazy AI Slop

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"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."Will.I.Am ShakespeareIt's no secret that Google has been slammed with a tidal wave of AI-generated slop.The wide proliferation of easy-to-use large language models and image generators has polluted the company's search results, watering down its value as the de facto librarian of the internet.Even just Googling the name "William Shakespeare," often regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, prioritizes a blatantly AI-generated image of the iconic playwright.It doesn't take much to identify the prominently featured portrait as the output of an image generator — as far as we can tell,…

16 Nov

Sam Altman’s Collab With Arianna Huffington Is a Busted Mess

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Thrive AI Health is useless.Survive AIOpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington — yes, the publishing mogul who started the Huffington Post during the mid-Bush administration — thought they could improve healthcare with AI. But so far, their joint venture Thrive AI Health seems more useless than reading WebMD when you have a headache. A demo of Thrive's AI product, as uncovered by TechCrunch and which doesn't seem like it was supposed to be live online, suggests that the company's product will take the form of an interactive health-tracking tool. The Thrive AI Coach seems to operate like a clumsy version of…

16 Nov

Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time

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Thanks, Grandma.Grandma DesignUK telecom company Virgin Media O2 just revealed a fascinating AI entity: an audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry. "As 'Head of Scammer Relations,' this state-of-the-art AI Granny's mission is to talk with fraudsters and waste as much of their time as possible with human-like rambling," Virgin Media wrote of the bot. "Created using a range of cutting-edge AI technology and trained with the help of one of YouTube’s best known scambaiters, Jim Browning, Daisy is a lifelike AI Granny completely indistinguishable from a real person." Daisy…

16 Nov

Tech firm Palantir spoke with MoJ about calculating prisoners’ ‘reoffending risks’

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The US spy tech company Palantir has been in talks with the Ministry of Justice about using its technology to calculate prisoners’ “reoffending risks”, it has emerged.The proposals emerged in correspondence released under the Freedom of Information Act which showed how the company has also been lobbying new UK government ministers, including the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.Amnesty International is among the organisations expressing concern about the expanding role Palantir is attempting to carve out after it was controversially awarded a multimillion-pound contract with the NHS last year.The prisons minister, James Timpson, received a letter three weeks after the general election from…

16 Nov

Google Gemini unexpectedly surges to No. 1, over OpenAI, but benchmarks don’t tell the whole story

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google has claimed the top spot in a crucial artificial intelligence benchmark with its latest experimental model, marking a significant shift in the AI race — but industry experts warn that traditional testing methods may no longer effectively measure true AI capabilities. The model, dubbed “Gemini-Exp-1114,” which is available now in the Google AI Studio, matched OpenAI’s GPT-4o in overall performance on the Chatbot Arena leaderboard after accumulating over 6,000 community votes. The achievement represents Google’s strongest challenge yet to OpenAI’s…

16 Nov

What Okta’s failures say about the future of identity security in 2025

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 2025 needs to be the year identity providers go all in on improving every aspect of software quality and security, including red teaming while making their apps more transparent and getting objective about results beyond standards. Anthropic, OpenAI and other leading AI companies have taken red teaming to a new level, revolutionizing their release processes for the better. Identity providers, including Okta, need to follow their lead and do the same. While Okta is one of the first identity management vendors…

16 Nov

Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded OpenAI lawsuit

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Elon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI, adding federal antitrust and other claims and adding OpenAI’s largest financial backer, Microsoft, as a defendant.Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed on Thursday night in federal court in Oakland, California, said Microsoft and OpenAI illegally sought to monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence and sideline competitors.Like Musk’s original August complaint, it accused OpenAI and its chief executive, Samuel Altman, of violating contract provisions by putting profits ahead of the public good in the push to advance AI.“Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157bn for-profit, market-paralyzing…