California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed two laws regulating AI-generated actor replicas. The signing ceremony took place at the headquarters of the actors’ union SAG-AFTRA in Los Angeles. Katie Kilkenny writes for The Hollywood Reporter that the new laws restrict the use of digital replicas of actors. They require a specific description of the intended …
ClickUp has launched a new chat feature with extensive AI capabilities. The AI integration, based in part on OpenAI’s GPT-4, provides automatic summaries of missed conversations, identifies action items, and creates detailed tasks from chat messages. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, users can ask AI-powered questions about projects, with answers pulled from chat history …
Companies are increasingly turning to model routing to make their AI systems more efficient. As Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat, this technology enables the dynamic selection of the most appropriate AI model for each query. Startup Martian has developed a large language model (LLM) router that is attracting interest from major tech companies. Accenture …
Artificial intelligence is becoming more integrated into our daily lives, raising the question of whether we are enhancing our capabilities or outsourcing our thinking. Gary Grossman, EVP of Technology at Edelman, shares his experience as an early adopter of AI tools such as ChatGPT and DALL-E. He describes how these technologies have enhanced his productivity …
Google is planning to introduce a system for labeling AI-generated and -processed images in search results. In the coming months, the company plans to roll out an updated “About This Image” feature that will inform users whether an image was taken with a camera, edited with software, or generated by AI models. The labeling is …
OpenAI has fixed an issue with ChatGPT where it appeared that the chatbot was sending messages to users on its own. The company explained that the error occurred when the model tried to reply to a blank message, which was not sent correctly. A Reddit user had previously shared a screenshot showing ChatGPT asking about …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is leaving the safety and security committee of the company’s board of directors. The committee will now consist entirely of independent members. Zico Kolter, head of the machine learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, will chair the committee. Other members include Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former NSA chief Paul Nakasone, and …
Luma AI has released an API for its video AI model Dream Machine, just hours after a similar move by competitor Runway. As Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat, the API allows developers to integrate Dream Machine into their own applications. The model can generate videos from text or images, and offers features such as camera …
Start-ups Cerebras and Groq have unveiled powerful processors for AI inference that aim to outperform Nvidia’s previously dominant GPUs. As VentureBeat reports, Cerebras’ new CS-3 chip offers 125 petaflops of processing power with 4 trillion transistors. Groq scores with an energy-efficient tensor streaming processor. Both companies are targeting the growing market for AI applications. Experts …
Slack is expanding its offering to include AI agents from third-party providers and customers. The new feature allows paying users to integrate AI agents from partners like Asana, Cohere, and Adobe, as well as their own agents, into the chat platform. Rob Seaman, Slack’s head of product, told VentureBeat that office workers are increasingly looking …