SCRApple’s new AI features in macOS Shortcuts offer impressive capabilities but reveal significant reliability issues, according to recent testing by technology writers. Dan Moren and Jason Snell from Six Colors experimented with the “Use Model” action, which processes data through AI models running on devices, Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, or OpenAI servers. Snell attempted to …
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is winning over corporate customers at the expense of Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant, creating tension between the two partner companies. Bloomberg reporters Brody Ford and Shirin Ghaffary reveal how this competition is reshaping the enterprise AI market. Drugmaker Amgen initially planned to deploy Microsoft’s Copilot to 20,000 employees but switched to ChatGPT after …
Two federal judges ruled in favor of AI companies this week in closely watched copyright lawsuits over training data usage. Meta Platforms escaped a lawsuit from authors including Sarah Silverman and Andrew Sean Greer who claimed the company used millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Llama AI model. San Francisco Judge Vince …
Creative Commons has introduced CC signals, a new project designed to help control how artificial intelligence systems access and use online content for training purposes. The initiative, reported by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch, aims to create a framework that balances open internet access with growing concerns about unrestricted AI data collection. The system will allow …
Businesses are struggling to maintain visibility as artificial intelligence transforms how people search for information online. Traditional search engine optimization tactics are becoming obsolete as AI-powered search tools like Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity, and ChatGPT increasingly provide answers without directing users to company websites. Forbes writer Rashi Shrivastava reports that search traffic has declined significantly …
Apple has introduced new speech recognition technology that significantly outperforms existing transcription tools in processing speed. The company unveiled SpeechAnalyzer and SpeechTranscriber as part of its developer beta releases at WWDC. John Voorhees from MacStories tested the new Apple framework against popular transcription apps built on OpenAI’s Whisper model. His tests used a 34-minute, 7GB …
A federal judge has delivered a landmark ruling in the ongoing legal battle between authors and AI companies over copyright infringement. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California found that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models constitutes fair use under copyright law. The case began when authors Andrea …
Google has released Imagen 4, its newest text-to-image artificial intelligence model, through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. The announcement was made on the official Google Developer Blog. The company introduces two versions of the model to serve different creative needs: Google claims Imagen 4 offers significant improvements in text rendering compared to previous …
Publishers face an existential crisis as artificial intelligence companies extract their content without providing fair compensation, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned at an event in Cannes. Christine Wang reported for Axios. Prince revealed striking statistics about the imbalance between content scraping and traffic referrals. Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it …
YouTube will add Google’s most advanced AI video generator, Veo 3, to its Shorts platform later this summer. CEO Neal Mohan announced the integration at the Cannes Lions festival, as reported by Alex Weprin for The Hollywood Reporter. The AI tool can create both videos and sound from text prompts. Mohan said the technology will …