TikTok lays off hundreds in favor of AI moderators while Instagram blames humans for its own issues
TikTok developer ByteDance laid off hundreds of human moderators in favor of AI, while Threads blamed its human moderators on a recent string of account lockouts......»»
Netflix removes AI art poster for Arcane after an outcry from creators
Art app Procreate declares it will never use generative AI and pushes back against AI in art......»»
Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
Amazon has now committed $8 billion to AI startup that makes a key ChatGPT competitor. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by.....»»
AI and genus-conditioned algorithms create precise simulation-ready models of 600,000 existing urban trees
The Irish philosopher George Berkely, best known for his theory of immaterialism, once famously mused, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" What about AI-generated trees? They probably wouldn't make a s.....»»
DOJ indicts Phillips 66 for Southern California refinery allegedly dumping industrial wastewater into sewer
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles voted to indict Texas-based oil refiner Phillips 66 for allegedly dumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater from its Carson refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system and then failing.....»»
Get ready for AI-dubbed YouTube videos
YouTube is reportedly rolling out its AI auto-translation tool to content creators in nine different languages including, Spanish, French, German, and Japanese......»»
Samsung"s new Gauss 2 AI Model might be the next Galaxy brain
Samsung debuts Gauss 2 AI model......»»
Suno"s upgraded AI song generator might get even skeptics" toes tapping
AI music platform Suno debuts v4 with new features,.....»»
Siri chatbot may be coming in 2026 as part of iOS 19
A new rumor suggests Apple wants to make Siri more conversational by making it use a large language model backend similar to ChatGPT and AI rivals, but it won't be ready until 2026.Siri could get an LLM backend in 2026When Apple was first rumored to.....»»
"Genetic time machine" reveals complex chimpanzee cultures
In recent decades, scientists have clearly demonstrated that chimpanzees, like humans, pass on complex cultures such as tool use from generation to generation. But human culture has become vastly more sophisticated, from the Stone Age to the Space Ag.....»»
School did nothing wrong when it punished student for using AI, court rules
Student "indiscriminately copied and pasted text," including AI hallucinations. A federal court yesterday ruled against parents who sued a Massachusetts school district for punish.....»»
Child safety org flags new CSAM with AI trained on real child sex abuse images
AI will make it harder to spread CSAM online, child safety org says. For years, hashing technology has made it possible for platforms to automatically detect known child sexual ab.....»»
AI tool can engineer "better, faster, stronger" proteins
Nature is adept at designing proteins. Scientists are even better. But artificial intelligence holds the promise of improving proteins many times over. Medical applications for such "designer proteins" range from creating more precise antibodies for.....»»
Origin of life research finds RNA can favor both left- and right-handed proteins
The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a discovery that RNA—a key molecule thought to have potentially held the instructions for life before DNA emerged—can favor making the building blocks of proteins.....»»
Establishing a general theory of metal-support interaction: AI-driven advances in catalysis
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help accelerate scientific discovery based on vast amounts of experimental data? A new study by Prof. Li Weixue's team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Scienc.....»»
Red squirrels are very flexible in shifting their daily routines to avoid urban threats, researchers find
Scientific investigations before and during the COVID-19 lockdown in Berlin in 2020 show that urban red squirrels are extremely flexible in adjusting their diurnal activities to the presence of humans, domestic dogs, domestic cats, and predators such.....»»
Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same
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......»»
Child safety org launches AI model trained on real child sex abuse images
AI will make it harder to spread CSAM online, child safety org says. For years, hashing technology has made it possible for platforms to automatically detect known child sexual ab.....»»
Scientists uncover cross-species neural mechanism for early detection of life motion in visual processing
Visual systems of both humans and animals can detect life motion from the environment at the earliest stage of visual processing, research by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) uncovered......»»
Photon qubits challenge AI, enabling more accurate quantum computing without error-correction techniques
In an era where AI and data are driving the scientific revolution, quantum computing technology is emerging as another game-changer in the development of new drugs and new materials......»»
AI-assisted sorting system automates detection of aluminum-tolerant microbes in acidic soils
Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with collaborators, developed an artificial intelligence-assisted Raman-activated cell sorting (AI-RA.....»»