Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal
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Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal

Weeks after it announced a huge partnership deal with Amazon, Anthropic doubled down on its earlier relationship with Alphabet.

November 15, 20232 min read
Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal
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Anthropic Cultivates Alternatives: Anthropic secures $2 billion investment from Google, weeks after Amazon deal

Weeks after it announced a huge partnership deal with Amazon, Anthropic doubled down on its earlier relationship with Alphabet.

November 15, 20232 min read
Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
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Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan

ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.

November 15, 20232 min read
Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
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Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan

ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.

November 15, 20232 min read
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
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Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV

The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies. 

November 15, 20232 min read
Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV
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Actors Reach Accord on AI: All about the Hollywood actors and studios' deal on generative AI usage in films and TV

The longest actors’ strike in Hollywood history ended as actors and studios reached an accord on the use of generative AI in making movies. 

November 15, 20232 min read
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
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The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.

Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...

November 8, 20232 min read
The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.
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The Language of Schizophrenia: LLMs can play a valuable role in diagnosing schizophrenia, study finds.

Large language models may help psychiatrists resolve unanswered questions about mental illness. Researchers from University College London, Beijing Normal University, and Lisbon’s Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown used a large language model to...

November 8, 20232 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
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Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read
Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.
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Synthetic Data Helps Image Generators: OpenAI researchers improved text-to-image prompt following with generated captions.

Text-to-image generators often miss details in text prompts, and sometimes they misunderstand parts of a prompt entirely. Synthetic captions can help them follow prompts more closely.

November 1, 20233 min read
What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Foundation Models: A new Stanford index to assess the transparency of leading AI models
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What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Foundation Models: A new Stanford index to assess the transparency of leading AI models

A new index ranks popular AI models in terms of information their developers provide about their training, architecture, and usage. Few score well.

November 1, 20233 min read
What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Foundation Models: A new Stanford index to assess the transparency of leading AI models
Large Language Models (LLMs)

What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Foundation Models: A new Stanford index to assess the transparency of leading AI models

A new index ranks popular AI models in terms of information their developers provide about their training, architecture, and usage. Few score well.

November 1, 20233 min read
White House Moves to Regulate AI: All about the U.S. executive order on AI use and development
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White House Moves to Regulate AI: All about the U.S. executive order on AI use and development

U.S. President Biden announced directives that control AI based on his legal power to promote national defense and respond to national emergencies. The White House issued an executive order that requires AI companies and institutions...

November 1, 20233 min read
White House Moves to Regulate AI: All about the U.S. executive order on AI use and development
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White House Moves to Regulate AI: All about the U.S. executive order on AI use and development

U.S. President Biden announced directives that control AI based on his legal power to promote national defense and respond to national emergencies. The White House issued an executive order that requires AI companies and institutions...

November 1, 20233 min read
AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models
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AI Turns Deadly: The dangerous outputs of Large Language Models

Large language models occasionally generate information that’s false. What if they produce output that’s downright dangerous? Text generators don’t know true from false or right from wrong. Ask an innocent question about food or health, and you might get an innocent — but fatal — answer.

October 25, 20231 min read

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