But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI ...

The video agent demoed as part of Google Beam is an experiment, and it's shockingly realistic. Is this a helper, or a ...

Japan’s bizarre “Monster Wolf” robot deterrents are seeing soaring demand as the country struggles with record bear sightings ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. It seems Google has decided that your PC needs a hefty dose of AI, whether you asked for it or not. Security researcher ...

Yesterday we reported on an issue wherein Google’s browser Chrome was found downloading and installing AI models that can occupy a hefty 4GB of space. This was being done automatically without the ...

Google Chrome is currently at the centre of viral claims suggesting it is silently downloading a 4GB AI model onto users’ devices. Some posts on social media sites have also warned that the file could ...

Google’s Chrome browser is already a notorious storage hog, but now comes word that it’s crowding our PC drives in a new way: with a local AI model. That model ...

Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5x more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app intelligence provider Appfigures. For ...

Plus: China has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

Tokens are the basic unit of AI usage, but the consumption is becoming a distorted metric. Incentivizing maximum use of tokens only measures what an engineer spends on AI instead of what they produce ...

Nvidia has unveiled DLSS 5, a new PC gaming that uses AI to re-render video games in real time. It’s basically a make-it-realistic filter, affecting characters, foliage, textures, and lighting. It’s ...

The potential to create personalised digital “twins” of your brain and body is a hot topic in neuroscience and medicine today. These computer models are designed to simulate how parts of your brain ...