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21 Nov

Anthropic’s Computer Use mode shows strengths and limitations in new study

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Since Anthropic released the “Computer Use” feature for Claude in October, there has been a lot of excitement about what AI agents can do when given the power to imitate human interactions. A new study by Show Lab at the National University of Singapore provides an overview of what we can expect from the current generation of graphical user interface (GUI) agents. Claude is the first frontier model that can interact as a GUI agent with a device through the same…

21 Nov

Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing

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Alphabet’s Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, US prosecutors have argued to a judge.Such changes would essentially result in Google being highly regulated for 10 years, subjecting it to oversight by the same Washington federal court that ruled the company maintained an illegal monopoly in online search and related advertising.Google controls about 90% of the online search market.“Google’s unlawful behaviour has deprived rivals not only of critical distribution channels but also distribution partners who could otherwise enable entry…

21 Nov

OpenScholar: The open-source A.I. that’s outperforming GPT-4o in scientific research

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Scientists are drowning in data. With millions of research papers published every year, even the most dedicated experts struggle to stay updated on the latest findings in their fields. A new artificial intelligence system, called OpenScholar, is promising to rewrite the rules for how researchers access, evaluate, and synthesize scientific literature. Built by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington, OpenScholar combines cutting-edge retrieval systems with a fine-tuned language model to deliver citation-backed, comprehensive answers to complex…

21 Nov

Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke’s AI Holiday Ad and It’s Way Better

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"Brilliant. No notes."AI GoreCoca-Cola drew criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday advertisement this year.The ad is pretty much exactly the kind of insipid corporate sludge you'd expect from AI: predictable, unimaginative and vaguely uncanny.Fortunately, Redditors took matters into their own hands, celebrating tooth-rotting soft drinks with a far more "unhinged" take on Coke's concept.The result harkens back to the glowy days of AI gore, when Will Smith glitchily "eating" a bowl of spaghetti went mega-viral, with unsettling mishmashes of morphing body appendages and explosions. At one point, a polar bear even yeets its offspring into an icy…

21 Nov

Nvidia earnings: AI chip leader shows no signs of stopping mammoth growth

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The AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company and the engine of the artificial-intelligence boom, rolled out another set of quarterly results on Wednesday to investors’ delight.The company, whose value has soared by $2.2tn this year to $3.6tn on the back of near-doubling of chip sales, said it had revenue of $35.08bn, against expectations of $33.15bn. Its profits more than doubled year-over-year. Revenue surged 94% from the same quarter last year. The company projected that revenue would increase by 70% in the coming quarter.Analysts anticipated Nvidia to report earnings of $0.75 per share; the company reported $0.81. Shares of…

21 Nov

Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same

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As America takes stock after Donald Trump’s re-election to the presidency, it’s worth highlighting the AI-generated fake photos, videos and audio shared during the campaign. A slew of fake videos and images shared by Trump and his supporters purported to show his opponent, Kamala Harris, saying or doing things that did not happen in real life. Of particular concern are deepfake videos, which are edited or generated using artificial intelligence (AI) and depict events that didn’t happen. They may appear to depict real people, but the scenarios are entirely fictitious. Microsoft warned in late October that: Russian actors continue to…

20 Nov

Pivoting in politics, tech, antitrust and economic growth | Gary Shapiro interview

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the CTA, has seen tech change over decades. I talked to him about his latest views of politics, tech and economic growth. He was blunt in his responses, and that reminded me of the title of his new book on innovation, dubbed Pivot or Die: How Leaders Thrive When Everything Changes. I spoke with Shapiro a day before the U.S. presidential election. I asked him about politics and tech in one of my early questions. But…

20 Nov

A classic case of when the law is an ass | Brief letters

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What better proof that the law is an ass than baby Lilah’s case (‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male, 19 November). She was mistakenly registered as a boy and cannot be legally re-registered as a girl, although the mistake was discovered minutes after it was made by the register office.San CassimallyEdinburgh It’s not just disabled museum employees who need seats – many elderly people need them too (Security guard sues Science Museum for allegedly denying suitable chair, 17 November). I often have to forgo or cut short visits to museums and galleries through exhaustion and…

20 Nov

Preparing today for tomorrow’s AI regulations – AI News

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AI is rapidly becoming ubiquitous across business systems and IT ecosystems, with adoption and development racing faster than anyone could have expected. Today it seems that everywhere we turn, software engineers are building custom models and integrating AI into their products, as business leaders incorporate AI-powered solutions in their working environments. However, uncertainty about the best way to implement AI is stopping some companies from taking action. Boston Consulting Group’s latest Digital Acceleration Index (DAI), a global survey of 2,700 executives, revealed that only 28% say their organisation is fully prepared for new AI regulation. Their uncertainty is exacerbated by…

20 Nov

aiOla unveils open source AI audio transcription model that obscures sensitive info in realtime

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Businesses looking to use AI models to transcribe audio, specifically human speech, from executives, employees, and customers, may be wary of the idea of an AI program listening to and recording sensitive information. However, the Israeli audio AI startup aiOla has a new model that addresses this very concern. Built atop OpenAI’s industry-standard open source model Whisper, the new Whisper-NER from aiOla is itself fully open source and available now on Hugging Face and Github for enterprises organizations, and individuals to…