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Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides

Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-related ...
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Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time

AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of ...
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Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook

That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that they were alone with an African, Indian, or Pakistani.
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Instagram admits users often can't tell AI profiles from real people

Instagram is replacing its "AI creator" tag with a new "AI-generated profile" label because users can't tell AI profiles from real people. Singularity, defined by Instagram user competence. Profiles ...
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Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis

Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks from frontier AI models. Cross-investments between AI companies and ...
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OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate

OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company.
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China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap

China's top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is producing HBM3E for the first time in small quantities, a fast memory found in many current AI processors.