AI & Robotics

Nightshade, a new, free downloadable tool created by computer science researchers at the University of Chicago designed to be used by artists to disrupt AI models scraping and training on their artworks without consent, has received 250,000 downloads in the first five days of its release. “Nightshade hit 250K downloads in 5 days since release,” wrote the leader of the project, Ben Zhao, a…

AI was a major theme at Davos 2024. As reported by Fortune, more than two dozen sessions at the event focused directly on AI, covering everything from AI in education to AI regulation. A who’s who of AI was in attendance, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and many others. Whereas…

Boston-based Wasabi Technologies, a data storage startup taking on the likes of AWS, GCP and other cloud vendors, today announced it has acquired machine learning platform Curio AI from GrayMeta, the known provider of metadata solutions based in California. While the companies did not disclose the exact financial terms of the deal, Wasabi did note in a press release that the deal will help enable…

Google’s popular web browser, Chrome, is getting a makeover with the latest release of Chrome M121, which introduces three new generative AI features that aim to make browsing easier, more efficient and more personalized. The new features, which are available as experimental options for Chrome users in the U.S. on Macs and Windows PCs, leverage Google’s advanced machine learning and AI…