Meta has launched Muse Image, the first image generation model built by its internal Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company announced in an official blog post. The tool is now integrated into Meta AI and already powers creative features on Instagram and WhatsApp, with Facebook, Messenger and advertising tools through Advantage+ creative to follow. Meta describes …
Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile devices and the web, the company announced in an official blog post. The tool, previously limited to the desktop app, now lets users start a task on a laptop, check progress on a phone, and retrieve finished work from any browser. Beta access begins …
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge faced a technical failure during a product demo in Cape Town: his AI-powered pill scanner needed to reach a data center 14,000 kilometers away, and the connection was far too slow. David Berreby reports for IEEE Spectrum that this incident pushed Alonge to shrink his AI model within hours …
Emily M. Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington, is pushing back against widespread misreadings of her 2021 paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots.” Gwendolyn Rak reports for IEEE Spectrum that Bender used the paper’s five-year anniversary to clarify what the term actually describes. Not all of AI, and not an …
Anthropic announces in an official blog post that its Claude models have developed a small, distinct set of internal patterns that function differently from the rest of the network’s processing. The company calls this the “J-space”, named after the Jacobian lens, a new technique used to detect it. Each pattern in the J-space corresponds to …
Tencent has released the full version of its Hy3 language model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, removing regional restrictions that previously excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Sam Witteveen reports for VentureBeat that the license reversal, more than the model’s capabilities, drove the strongest reaction from the open-model community. Hy3 …
Companies pour billions into artificial intelligence, yet most fail to turn that investment into measurable business value. Colleen Jones writes for Content Science Review that this disconnect, which she calls the “AI strategy gap,” separates organizations that merely adopt AI tools from those that transform how they create value. The numbers support her argument. MIT …
A story titled “The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama” spread quickly on social media, claiming a right-wing media company had bought and shut down 47 weekly newspapers, replacing journalists with AI-generated content. Joshua Benton reports for Nieman Journalism Lab that the story, published by a site called The Editorial, was entirely invented. Benton found that …
ByteDance’s video generation tool Seedance is gaining traction in Hollywood, despite an earlier scandal over a viral deepfake clip. Nilesh Christopher reports for the Los Angeles Times that the Chinese tech giant, best known as the former majority owner of TikTok, has been quietly courting American filmmakers and executives. Earlier this year, a 15-second AI-generated …
Midjourney is pushing to expose how Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. use artificial intelligence internally, as the AI image generator fights a major copyright lawsuit filed by the studios. Gene Maddaus reports for Variety. The studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has responded with a fair use defense, …