Enlarge / A view of a Wendy’s store on August 9, 2023 in Nanuet, New York. American fast food chain Wendy’s is planning to test dynamic pricing and AI menu features in 2025, reports Nation’s…
Enlarge / A photo of “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” (inset), which did not match AI-generated promises, shown in the background. On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” after customers complained that the…
Enlarge / Tyler Perry in 2022. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Thursday, filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke about his concerns related to the impact of AI video synthesis on entertainment industry jobs. In…
Enlarge / Stable Diffusion 3 generation with the prompt: studio photograph closeup of a chameleon over a black background. On Thursday, Stability AI announced Stable Diffusion 3, an open-weights next-generation image-synthesis model. It follows its…
Enlarge / Generations from Gemini AI from the prompt, “Paint me a historically accurate depiction of a medieval British king.” On Thursday morning, Google announced it was pausing its Gemini AI image-synthesis feature in response…
On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of AI language models called Gemma, which are free, open-weights models built on technology similar to the more powerful but closed Gemini models. Unlike Gemini, Gemma models can…
On Tuesday, ChatGPT users began reporting unexpected outputs from OpenAI’s AI assistant, flooding the r/ChatGPT Reddit sub with reports of the AI assistant “having a stroke,” “going insane,” “rambling,” and “losing it.” OpenAI has acknowledged…
Enlarge / The real Will Smith eating spaghetti, parodying an AI-generated video from 2023. On Monday, Will Smith posted a video on his official Instagram feed that parodied an AI-generated video of the actor eating…
On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Reddit has signed a contract allowing an unnamed AI company to train its models on the site’s content, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the…
Enlarge / A photo of Galactic Compass running on an iPhone. Matt Webb / Getty Images On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points to the center…