On Thursday, Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director, Dazhon Darien, and charged him with using AI to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, according to a report by The Baltimore Banner. Police say…
On Friday, a federal judicial panel convened in Washington, DC, to discuss the challenges of policing AI-generated evidence in court trials, according to a Reuters report. The US Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules,…
Getty Images On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo. Its…
Enlarge / A sample image from Microsoft for “VASA-1: Lifelike Audio-Driven Talking Faces Generated in Real Time.” On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of…
On Thursday, Meta unveiled early versions of its Llama 3 open-weights AI model that can be used to power text composition, code generation, or chatbots. It also announced that its Meta AI Assistant is now…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt “A painting by Grant Wood of an astronaut couple, american gothic style.” When OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 debuted on April 6, 2022, the idea…
On Tuesday, the UK government announced a new law targeting the creation of AI-generated sexually explicit deepfake images. Under the legislation, which has not yet been passed, offenders would face prosecution and an unlimited fine,…
Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. Some weeks in AI news are eerily quiet, but during others, getting a grip on the week’s events feels like trying to hold back…
Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. On Tuesday, Intel revealed a new AI accelerator chip called Gaudi 3 at its Vision 2024 event in Phoenix. With strong claimed performance…
Enlarge / A screenshot of AI-generated songs listed on Udio on April 10, 2024. Benj Edwards Between 2002 and 2005, I ran a music website where visitors could submit song titles that I would write…