Google Photos Will Now Add AI Watermarks to Magic Editor Enhanced Images

Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image” … Read more

Researchers Create a Low-Cost AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons

Researchers from Stanford University and Washington University have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is comparable in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model. The main objective of the researchers was not to create a powerful reasoning-focused model but to understand how the San Francisco-based AI firm instructed its o1 series models to perform test … Read more

Wingify’s Paras Chopra eyes India’s new tech subsidy to bootstrap new AI venture

Last week, electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced at a press briefing that 10,000 GPUs at a common compute facility will soon go online. The facility will be available to startups, academia, and developers through an online portal. The Centre will review requests for access to the GPUs based on requirements. GPUs are … Read more

OpenAI Chief Says It Needs Different Open-Source Strategy

San Francisco, United States: OpenAI chief Sam Altman on Friday said his high-profile artificial intelligence company is “on the wrong side of history” when it comes to being open about how its technology works. Altman’s comments came during an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit where he fielded questions including whether he would consider publishing … Read more

OpenAI Researcher Resigns Citing Fear Of AI’s Rapid Development

An OpenAI researcher has resigned from his position after working four years in the company. His reason? The rapid growth of artificial intelligence. In a post on X, Steven Adler announced that after four years working on safety across OpenAI, he left his job in mid-November. “It was a wild ride with lots of chapters … Read more

Chatbot Pulled Down After Embarrassing Errors

New Delhi: A French-language artificial intelligence chatbot has been taken down after users reported receiving nonsensical answers to simple mathematical equations, and bizarre recommendations. Lucie, the chatbot, backed by the French government, was launched on Thursday. It soon faced backlash due to its poor performance. One user, who asked the chatbot to explain “cow’s eggs,” … Read more

Holocaust Survivors Entrust Memories To AI

Survivors of the Holocaust have entrusted their memories of the Nazi death camps to artificial intelligence to ensure that generations to come can access recollections of the genocide of six million Jews. The project at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (MJH) in New York saw 10 survivors undertake interviews on a range of topics to … Read more

AI Now Capable Of Cloning Itself, Scientists Fear “Red Line” Crossed

Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved the significant capability of self-replication, leaving the scientific community worried that a red line had been crossed, according to a new study published in the preprint database arXiv. The study involving two prominent large language models (LLMs), one from Meta and another from Alibaba, showcased the ability to clone themselves … Read more

“Satya Definitely Does Have Money,” Says Elon Musk, Nadella Responds

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella Thursday responded to Tesla chief Elon Musk’s “don’t actually have the money” remarks for the Stargate project announced by US President Donald Trump. Microsoft is one of the key technology partners for the Stargate project. Nadella assured Microsoft would invest $80 billion in building Azure, its cloud computing platform. … Read more