Generative AI

Google, which distributes a large portion of ads on the web, tightened its restrictions on potentially misleading political ads in advance of national elections in the United States, India, and South Africa.

Microsoft promised to shield users of its generative AI services against the potential risk of copyright infringement. Microsoft said it would cover the cost for any copyright violations that may arise from use of its Copilot features, which generate text, images, code, and other media within its...

A new version of ChatGPT upgrades the service for corporate customers. OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise, which combines enhanced data-privacy features with a more capable language model. The price is negotiable on a case-by-case basis.

Enthusiasm for AI is driving top salaries for engineers and executives into the stratosphere. Companies that advertise open AI positions are listing annual pay scales well into six figures. In at least one case, the proposed salary approaches seven figures.

Tonight at 11: I’m an AI-generated character, and I’ll be bringing you the latest headlines. Indian broadcasters have embraced synthetic news presenters, Nikkei Asia reported. Their counterparts in other Asian countries also rely increasingly on automated anchors.

China’s internet watchdog proposed sweeping limitations on face recognition — with significant exceptions.

Large language models increasingly reply to prompts with a believably human response. Can they also mimic human behavior?

The latest robot dog is smarter — and less expensive — than ever. Unitree Robotics of Hangzhou, China, unleashed Go2, a quadruped robot that trots alongside its owner, stands on two legs, jumps, talks, takes photos, and retails for less than a high-end MacBook.

Amid the hype that surrounds large language models, a crucial caveat has receded into the background: The current cost of serving them at scale. As chatbots go mainstream, providers must contend with the expense of serving sharply rising numbers of users.

Chatbots are taking orders for burgers and fries — and making sure you buy a milkshake with them. Drive-thru fast-food restaurants across the United States are rolling out chatbots to take orders.

Amazon aims to make it easier for its cloud computing customers to build applications that take advantage of generative AI. Amazon Web Services’ Bedrock platform is offering new generative models, software agents that enable customers to interact...

It wasn’t your imagination: OpenAI’s large language models have changed. Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley found that the performance of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 has drifted in recent months. In a limited selection of tasks, some prompts yielded better results than before, some worse.

Apple insiders spoke anonymously about the company’s effort to exploit the current craze for chatbots. Apple built a framework for large language models and used it to develop a chatbot dubbed Apple GPT — for internal use only.