Enlarge / Still from a Chinese social media video featuring two people imitating imperfect AI-generated video outputs. It’s no secret that despite significant investment from companies like OpenAI and Runway, AI-generated videos still struggle to…
Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. Getty Images Google’s Threat Analysis Group confirmed Wednesday that they observed…
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of Donald Trump and catgirls created with Grok, which uses the Flux image synthesis model. On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s AI company xAI announced the beta release of two new language…
On Tuesday, Tokyo-based AI research firm Sakana AI announced a new AI system called “The AI Scientist” that attempts to conduct scientific research autonomously using AI language models (LLMs) similar to what powers ChatGPT. During…
This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Since then, we have learned that…
Texas-headquartered carbon black company Orion informed investors that it lost $60 million after falling victim to a criminal scheme that resulted in “multiple fraudulently induced outbound wire transfers to accounts controlled by unknown third parties.” …
Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, a company that builds tools to secure email communications, file sharing, and other situations where people are working with sensitive or proprietary…
Enlarge / A Waymo self-driving car in front of Google’s San Francisco headquarters, San Francisco, California, June 7, 2024. Silicon Valley’s latest disruption? Your sleep schedule. On Saturday, NBC Bay Area reported that San Francisco’s…
A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use of the controversial search warrants across several U.S. states. The Friday ruling from the U.S. Court of…
Enlarge / A still video capture of X user João Fiadeiro replacing his face with J.D. Vance in a test of Deep-Live-Cam. Over the past few days, a software package called Deep-Live-Cam has been going…