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Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

It is one thing to see funny deepfakes in Instagram Reels, and it is another to receive a message saying that your face has been reused for propaganda purpos...

Experts say the move was necessary to tackle the torrent of disinformation taking over the electoral race.

Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners.

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

A book on Amazon, published in 2023, with the same title as my 2019 book.The "sample" on Amazon reads like a ChatGPT summary of my book (with some small post-editing). Is this legal? Same author has published 2 dozen other books on Amazon in 2023 alone.😠😡 pic.twitter.com/JWnRYCj6Np— Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) January 4, 2024

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Issue 2: GenAI is mostly good for productivity, what does this mean?

Tech can spot fraud and analyse sentiment as further advances are set to transform the sector

An IPL-designed algorithm would help countries match refugees and asylum seekers to the location where they have the best chance at finding employment.

Antibiogo: Diagnosis aid to treat patients with the most appropriate antibiotics

TWB Chatbots Everyone deserves the information they need and want, when they want it, in their own language. Multilingual chatbot technology represents an innovative way to accomplish this vision. A chatbot is a computer program that simulates human conversations on messaging apps and devices. They are programmed to respond in realtime to users’ questions about […]

The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

Black in AI is a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.

Facebook artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created the world's most detailed population density maps of Africa to help humanitarian relief efforts...

Researchers are using satellite and ground data to forecast the risk of cholera in the country, which has consistently experienced cases since 2017.

Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths, billions of dollars in damages, and disruptions to

We've been supporting the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) build chatbots with Twilio to directly help those fleeing their homes in Ukraine.

An innovative floating offshore wind turbine prototype was launched in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Instead of a single anchor tower, the approach uses a pyramid base that can also passively orient itself in the direction of the blowing wind.

Yeah, you heard me: the 1993 video game Doom, which has been ported to every platform imaginable (an Apple Pippin, a jailbroken

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Jennifer DeStefano tells US Senate about dangers of artificial technology after receiving phone call from scammers sounding exactly like her daughter

Cohere’s non-profit research lab, C4AI, released the Aya model, a state-of-the-art, open source, massively multilingual, research LLM covering 101 languages – including more than 50 previously underserved languages.

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

Programming in English might not be all its cracked up to be.