Judge reduced to cleaning courthouse gutters amid justice funding crisis Country’s most senior judge calls for ‘concrete steps’ from government to support the justice system Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2024
Polish radio experiment replaces journalists with AI presenters A Polish radio station has stirred controversy after relaunching with presenters generated by artificial intelligence. Critics argue the move threatens to replace creative human workers with machines, but the station’s manager defended the decision, saying the jobs would have been lost anyway – so why not give AI a go. Radio France Internationale · Oct 24, 2024
Raspberry Pi release higher performance AI HAT+ — 13 and 26 TOPS variants Raspberry Pi release higher performance AI HAT+ — the third Raspberry Pi AI product of 2024. Tom’s Hardware · Oct 24, 2024
US mother says in lawsuit that AI chatbot encouraged son’s suicide Florida mother sues Character.AI and Google after 14-year-old son allegedly became obsessed with AI chatbot. Al Jazeera · Oct 24, 2024
NHS in England to trial AI tool to predict risk of fatal heart disease ‘Superhuman’ technology known as Aire can detect potential problems doctors cannot see from ECG results The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024
‘Superhuman’ AI that predicts disease and early death risk to be trialled in NHS The platform reads the results of electrocardiogram tests, which record the electrical activity of the heart Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2024
Teen Boy Killed Himself After Falling in Love with AI 'Game of Thrones' Bot That Put Him in 'Sexually Compromising' Situations: Lawsuit A mother whose teen son died of suicide after he fell in love with an AI chatbot filed a lawsuit against the company that created it, alleging her son was "groomed." Latin Times · Oct 23, 2024
Perplexity Seeks News Allies As It Challenges Google Perplexity AI chief Aravind Srinivas said Wednesday that he hopes to collaborate with news publishers which accuse the Google challenger of freeloading off their work. International Business Times · Oct 23, 2024
iOS 18.2 developer beta is live with Visual Intelligence, Image Playground and ChatGPT — all the new AI features for your iPhone iOS 18.2 finally brings some real Apple Intelligence features to the iPhone. Here's how to access the new tools. Tom’s Guide · Oct 23, 2024
“It’s important to us that we help purvey accurate information, not fantasy.”: Apple takes a shot at the Google Pixel's AI camera features iOS 18.1 is officially on the way, but which Apple Intelligence features will be available? Apple's Senior VP of Software Engineering dives into all of it with the WSJ. Laptop · Oct 23, 2024
Teenager took his own life after falling in love with AI chatbot. Now his devastated mom is suing the creators Sewell Setzer III had professed his love for the chatbot he often interacted with - his mother Megan Garcia says in a civil lawsuit The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2024
Mother says AI chatbot led her son to kill himself in lawsuit against its maker Megan Garcia said Sewell, 14, used Character.ai obsessively before his death and alleges negligence and wrongful death The Guardian - US · Oct 23, 2024
Gigabyte's new AI SSD stays true to the "Ultra Durable" monicker with a 100,000+ TBW endurance rating — AI TOP UD SSD is a budget version of the AI TOP 100E series Gigabyte has introduced a new lower-tier version of its AI TOP 100E series with "UD" branding. This version features lower performance but the same sky-high endurance as its 100E counterpart. Tom’s Hardware · Oct 23, 2024
I’ve been using ChatGPT Voice — 7 ways it beats the new Siri with Apple Intelligence Here's a look at what makes ChatGPT Voice a superior AI voice assistant when compared to Siri Tom’s Guide · Oct 23, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2024 Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from ‘power of the algorithm’
Windows Central · Oct 23, 2024 Microsoft and OpenAI are offering media outlets up to $10 million to bolster the use of AI-powered tools in newsrooms: "Nothing will replace the central role of reporters" Microsoft and OpenAI are offering media outlets up to $10 million to drive the use of AI tools in newsrooms.
The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2024 Tim Burton talks about his dread of AI as an exhibition of his work opens in London The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits
Tom’s Guide · Oct 23, 2024 Ollama just made it easier to use AI on your laptop — with no internet required Ollama makes it easy to run AI models on your laptop and the latest update allows you to pull them from HuggingFace.
International Business Times · Oct 23, 2024 Meta Revives Controversial Facial Recognition Program In Effort To Combat Celebrity Scam Ads Meta already uses an AI-driven ad review system, but the rise of more sophisticated deepfake technology has made scams harder to detect.
Tom’s Guide · Oct 23, 2024 ElevenLabs now let’s you create a custom voice from a text prompt — here’s why that’s exciting Use text prompts to give your characters new voices with ElevenLabs new model.
Creative Bloq · Oct 23, 2024 Famous creatives flock to sign open letter protesting 'unethical' AI AI is touted as an "unjust threat”.
Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2024 Anthropic's Claude AI could take control of your computer to do your work The OpenAI rival has taught its latest AI model to autonomously type, scroll, move a cursor and open apps
International Business Times · Oct 23, 2024 Don't Let Tech Gurus Decide The Future: Nobel Winner Simon Johnson Should our future by decided by the bosses of big tech firms? Is more regulation of Big Tech needed?
MusicRadar · Oct 23, 2024 "This is not something to be afraid of - this is something that we need to use": Timbaland says he spends 10 hours a day using controversial AI music generator Suno Timbaland's endorsement comes a day after Thom Yorke and ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus sign a joint statement demanding AI platforms like Suno cease training their models on copyrighted material
Tom’s Guide · Oct 23, 2024 Runway just changed filmmaking forever — Act-1 lets you control AI characters Runway just made it easier to create character animations without expensive motion capture suits.