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Google Is Now Watermarking Its AI-Generated Text
The chatbot revolution has left our world awash in AI-generated text: It has infiltrated our news feeds, term papers, and inboxes. It’s so absurdly abundant that industries have sprung up to provide moves and countermoves. Some companies offer services to identify AI-generated text by analyzing the material, while others say their tools will “humanize“ your…
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This AI Paper Introduces a Unified Perspective on the Relationship between Latent Space and Generative Models
In recent years, there have been drastic changes in the field of image generation, mainly due to the development of latent-based generative models, such as Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) and Mask Image Models (MIMs). Reconstructive autoencoders, like VQGAN and VAE, can reduce images into smaller and easier forms called low-dimensional latent space. This allows these…
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Character AI clamps down following teen user suicide, but users are revolting
As a result of these changes, Character AI appears to be deleting certain user-made custom chatbot characters abruptly.Read More
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Google DeepMind is making its AI text watermark open source
Google DeepMind has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text and is making it available open source. The tool, called SynthID, is part of a larger family of watermarking tools for generative AI outputs. The company unveiled a watermark for images last year, and it has since rolled out one for AI-generated video. In May,…
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The global view of gaming from a huge external development firm | Gilles Langourieux interview
Founded in 2004, Virtuos has grown into a big company when it comes to the production of games. As an external developer, Virtuos’ team of 3,800 professional game devs can supplement the teams at game studios and publishers as they finish their games. The Singapore-based company has a big presence in Asia and it has…
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VCs love using the AI meeting notepad Granola, so they gave it $20M
Granola’s notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made it easier for the startup to raise funds from a crowd of investors for its $20 million Series A — something the team managed to do in about a week.…
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This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing
Donald Christiansen, who transformed IEEE Spectrum from a promising but erratic technology magazine into a repeat National Magazine Award winner, died on 2 October 2024, at the age of 97, in Huntington, N.Y. After growing up in Plainfield, N.J., Don joined the U.S. Navy during World War II as an 18-year-old. He served aboard the…
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The Eero Outdoor 7 Brings Wi-Fi to the Backyard
Amazon’s Eero unveils the weatherproof Outdoor 7 to extend Wi-Fi coverage across your property.
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Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
After eight months, one of the US’s most prominent crypto-crime investigators may finally be coming home.
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The Maker of Ozempic Is Trying to Block Compounded Versions of Its Blockbuster Drug
Novo Nordisk has asked the FDA to block production of compounded copies of Ozempic, arguing that it’s too difficult to do safely. It’s the latest escalation in a brewing war between pharmaceutical companies and compounders.