For the first time, US President Biden wants to introduce detailed guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in government agencies. As David E. Sanger reports in the New York Times, a national security memorandum will set “guardrails” for the use of AI tools – for example, in decisions about nuclear weapons or asylum applications. …
OpenAI and Microsoft are jointly investing $10 million in an AI project to boost local news media in the US. As Axios’ Sara Fischer reports, the project will be led by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute and will include a grant program for an initial five major urban news organizations, including Chicago Public Media, The Minnesota …
AI startup TollBit has raised $24 million in Series A funding. The round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, will help the company expand internationally and hire new employees, reports Sara Fischer for Axios. TollBit operates a marketplace that brings publishers and AI companies together and helps simplify their data exchange, both legally and commercially. The …
More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, actress Julianne Moore and ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus, have issued a joint statement warning against the unlicensed use of their work by AI companies. As Dan Milmo reports in The Guardian, the signatories describe the unauthorized use of creative work to train AI models as a …
India is making great strides in building its own AI infrastructure and has already trained more than 100,000 AI developers. This was reported by Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the Nvidia AI Summit in India, according to VentureBeat’s Dean Takahashi. The country now has more than 2,000 AI startups in the Nvidia Inception Program …
Artificial intelligence is making professional portrait photos possible without a photographer. Three AI services – Portrait Pal, PixelPose, and Dreamwave – turn simple photos into high-quality application photos, as Jon Stojan reports in an article for VentureBeat. The services differ primarily in price, processing time, and the number of photos delivered. The three services work …
Open source AI models are increasingly winning out over closed systems like GPT-4 in the enterprise. This is what Matt Marshall reports for VentureBeat after numerous conversations with executives. The open models, such as Metas Llama, have now reached comparable quality and offer enterprises more control, customization, and cost efficiency. Major technology vendors such as …
Google has made its technology for watermarking AI-generated text publicly available. Developers and businesses can now freely download the tool called SynthID Text from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s Responsible GenAI Toolkit. As Kyle Wiggers reports on TechCrunch, the technology works by subtly modifying the probability of certain word sequences during text generation. …
The Canadian AI startup Ideogram has expanded its image generation capabilities with a new interactive “Canvas”. As reported by Carl Franzen, users can now arrange, compare, and combine AI-generated images on an unlimited workspace. The new tool includes features like “Magic Fill” for targeted image editing and “Extend” for expanding image boundaries. Ideogram offers Canvas …
The design platform Canva has launched a new AI image generator called “Dream Lab”. The tool, based on Leonardo.ai technology, can create images from text descriptions in various styles such as “3D render” or “illustration”, reports Jess Weatherbed. Compared to Canva’s existing Stable Diffusion generator, Dream Lab is said to deliver better results particularly in …