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Recently, a number of Ukrainian media outlets spread a “news” story about Serbia’s purchase of 20,000 missile launchers. Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. It was reported that the agreement was signed during the visit of the Serbian delegation to Iran, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Goran Aleksic. The source of this “news” was the Etto.ba website, but […]
After Bing Chat became available in Chrome and Safari, Microsoft’s AI tool is now heading to browsers for mobile operating systems. Bing Chat was first launched in February, but it was limited to the Microsoft Edge browser. Now the tool is starting to spread among smartphone and tablet owners, perhaps the largest audience. This is […]
The US Air Force has successfully tested an AI-controlled drone. According to Defense News, artificial intelligence controlled the XQ-58A Valkyrie. The testing was organized by a testing and training laboratory operating in Florida. The strike UAV took to the skies under AI control after two years of research by the Skyborg Vanguard team. According to […]
Google’s search engine has recently introduced a grammar checker feature – the functionality has been available since at least last month, but only now has 9to5Google noticed it, and Google itself warns that “grammar checker accuracy is not guaranteed, especially for incomplete sentences.” And yes, “artificial intelligence systems” are responsible for this function (which ones […]
The US Air Force Research Laboratory has tested the XQ-58A Valkyrie drone. During the test flight, the unmanned aerial vehicle was controlled by artificial intelligence. Flight tests took place on July 25, 2023 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. During the three-hour flight, the artificial intelligence successfully controlled the XQ-58A Valkyrie drone manufactured by Kratos […]
Meta has released AudioCraft, an open-source AI tool that allows generating music and sounds based on text prompts. AudioCraft consists of three AI models, each of which solves different sound generation tasks: MusicGen creates music. It was trained on 20,000 hours of music owned by Meta or licensed specifically for this purpose; AudioGen generates sounds […]
The YouTube team continues to experiment with new AI-powered features, most recently the ability to create short video annotations on the platform, which is currently being tested with a small number of users in a limited number of English-language videos. The administration announced the start of testing on a special page of the support website. […]
LinkedIn is developing an artificial intelligence-based tool that automates the task of searching for jobs and applying for jobs. According to a new leak, the Microsoft-owned company is testing a new assistant, LinkedIn Coach. It can guide users through the application process, teach new skills, and help them build connections on LinkedIn. The feature was […]
OpenAI’s AI classifier has stopped working since July 20, the company reports in a blog post. “We are studying feedback and researching more effective methods of text classification,” OpenAI said. OpenAI admitted that the classifier did not work very efficiently from the very beginning and often gave false answers, marking the text as written by […]
According to Bloomberg, today representatives of the leading US artificial intelligence companies will publicly commit to the White House on the security of their technologies. Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and others are expected to commit themselves to the responsible development and implementation of AI. Although the commitments are voluntary, they are the result of efforts by […]