Machine Learning Research
Literary works are challenging to translate. Their relative length, cultural nuances, idiomatic expressions...
Business
OpenAI may be spending roughly twice as much money as it’s bringing in, a sign of the financial pressures of blazing the trail in commercial applications of AI.
Generative AI
A new company with deep roots in generative AI made an eye-catching debut.
Business
Prices for access to large language models are falling as providers exploit new efficiencies and compete for new customers.
Business
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Machine Learning Research
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Tech & Society
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.
Machine Learning Research
Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.
Tech & Society
Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.
Tech & Society
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing.
Tech & Society
Meta raised the bar for large language models with open weights and published details about how it built one that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet by some measures.
Machine Learning Research
Previous systems that produce a talking-head video from a photo and a spoken-word audio clip animate the lips and other parts of the face separately.