artificial intelligence

Adobe Releases AI-Powered Generate Video in Public Beta, Redesigns Firefly Web App

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Adobe Releases AI-Powered Generate Video in Public Beta, Redesigns Firefly Web App

Adobe released its Generate Video tool in public beta on Wednesday, which is now available to all users. The artificial intelligence (AI) video generation tool is powered by the company’s Firefly Video Model, and was first teased in September 2024. The San Jose-based tech giant also redesigned the Firefly web app, and the new layout … Read more

South Korea Spy Agency Says DeepSeek ‘Excessively’ Collects Personal Data

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South Korea Spy Agency Says DeepSeek

South Korea’s spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of “excessively” collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app’s responses to questions relating to issues of national pride. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official notice to government agencies last week urging them to … Read more

Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report

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Malicious Machine Learning Models Discovered on Hugging Face: Report

Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hub, is said to contain malicious ML models. A cybersecurity research firm discovered two such models that contain code that can be used to package and distribute malware to those who download these files. As per the researchers, threat actors are using a hard-to-detect method, … Read more

Gemini With Imagen 3 Will Let Google Workspace Users Generate Images of People

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Gemini With Imagen 3 Will Let Google Workspace Users Generate Images of People

Google Workspace users will now be able to generate images of people using Gemini, the company announced on Friday. The new capability is part of the Mountain View-based tech giant’s recent Workspace update that also adds a couple of other artificial intelligence (AI) features. Interestingly, the tech giant rolled back Gemini’s ability to generate images … Read more

Apple’s ELEGNT AI Framework Can Help Non-Humanoid Robots Convey Intent Via Movement

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Apple’s ELEGNT AI Framework Can Help Non-Humanoid Robots Convey Intent Via Movement

Apple researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework that will allow non-humanoid robots to express their intentions and engage with humans. Dubbed ELEGNT, the framework focuses on non-verbal communication via movements, postures, and gestures. Alongside focusing on task completion, the framework specialises in allowing robots to express intention, attention, and emotions with movements. … Read more

European trip gives PM a chance to tout Canada’s AI efforts, strengthen ties: experts – National

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s five-day visit to Europe offers Canada an opportunity to shore up its relationship with the European Union and show Canadian leadership in artificial intelligence regulation, experts say. Trudeau will spend most of the trip in Paris for the AI Action Summit, the third major global meeting focused on the rapidly expanding … Read more

Google Photos to Add SynthID AI Watermark to Images Enhanced With Magic Editor

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Google Photos to Add SynthID AI Watermark to Images Enhanced With Magic Editor

Google Photos is getting a new functionality that will allow people to check whether an image was enhanced using artificial intelligence (AI) or not. Images edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor will be labelled using SynthID, a watermarking technology by the Mountain View-based tech giant. The label can be viewed within the “About this image” … Read more

Mistral Introduces Le Chat AI Assistant Apps on iOS and Android

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Mistral Introduces Le Chat AI Assistant Apps on iOS and Android

Mistral released iOS and Android apps for its Le Chat artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on Thursday. The Paris-based AI firm’s chatbot was earlier available only as a web client but is now being pushed across more platforms. Powered by Mistral’s large language models (LLMs), Le Chat can answer general queries, perform web searches, accept multimodal input, … Read more

Researchers Create a Low-Cost Open-Source AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons

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Researchers Create a Low-Cost Open-Source AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons

Researchers from Stanford University and Washington University have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is comparable in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model. The main objective of the researchers was not to create a powerful reasoning-focused model but to understand how the San Francisco-based AI firm instructed its o1 series models to perform test … Read more

Google Reportedly Internally Testing an AI Mode Feature for Search

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Google Reportedly Internally Testing an AI Mode Feature for Search

Google has reportedly started internally testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) feature for its Search platform. Dubbed AI Mode, the feature was first rumoured in December 2024. It is said to open a full-screen interface where users can ask complex and exploratory queries, and the AI responds in a conversational manner and displays URLs in … Read more

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