AI PCs might take off slowly, but battery life benefits is set to become Snapdragon X's real selling point
Adobe and other developers reportedly resisted requests to optimize AI applications for NPUs
Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service
53% say they would move to a competitor if a company was going to use AI for customer service
Transhumanist author predicts artificial super-intelligence, immortality, and the Singularity by 2045
Dystopian Kurzweil: As Big Tech continues frantically pushing AI development and funding, many users have become concerned about the outcome and dangers of the latest AI advancements. However, one man is more than sold on AI's ability to bring humanity to its next evolutionary level.
Intel Arrow Lake-S PCs may not get Microsoft's Copilot+ certification
Arrow Lake chips will arrive in time for the holidays
Experts warn of hacking risks as AI-powered vending machines that sell ammo expand across the US
Featuring the ever-reliable facial recognition technology
YouTube unveils AI-powered tool to cleanly remove copyrighted music
Less time fighting claims, more time creating fresh content
The Ultimate Upscaling Showdown: FSR 3.1 vs DLSS 3.7 vs XeSS 1.3
Upscaling technologies continue to improve every year, and today we'll be looking at five games updated to use AMD FSR 3.1 to compare against the latest in Nvidia DLSS 3.7 and Intel XeSS 1.3.
Big Tech needs to generate $600 billion in annual revenue to justify AI hardware expenditure
The big picture: The tech industry is riding a new high amid a frenzy fueled by AI. Big Tech companies have been plowing huge sums to build out the necessary infrastructure to meet what they perceive demand will be for these products in the coming years. One analyst warns however that the industry needs to stop and consider whether the actual revenue generated by AI will be enough to support these investments.
Nvidia's RTX Remix goes open source, giving classic games an AI-powered remastering renaissance
The floodgates have been opened to modders
OpenAI's internal discussion board about AI development was compromised by hackers
The company didn't care to inform any outside authority about the incident last year
Apple AI home device could merge the HomePod and Apple TV
Competing with Amazon and Google
Cloudflare offers one-click solution to block AI bots
Why it matters: There is a growing consensus that generative AI has the potential to make the open web much worse than it was before. Currently all big tech corporations and AI startups rely on scraping all the original content they can off the web to train their AI models. The problem is that an overwhelming majority of websites isn't cool with that, nor have they given permission for such. But hey, just ask Microsoft AI CEO, who believes content on the open web is "freeware."
New technology enables GPUs to use PCIe-attached memory for expanded capacity
It could be a game changer for AI and HPC applications
AI and Ukraine drone warfare are bringing us one step closer to killer robots
Weapons are being deployed with minimal human involvement
Even staunch fans are calling out Apple's less-than-transparent AI training data harvesting
It claims most training samples are Apple-owned, but what about the rest?
Almost half of all web traffic is bots, and they are mostly malicious in nature
AI algorithms are making everything worse for companies, content creators, and users
Google's greenhouse emissions are growing because of AI, and AI could help with that
Generative algorithms need a lot of energy
Pixel 9 phones could ship with a Microsoft Recall-like feature called "Google AI"
It will be a lot less creepy, though
Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training
The BS claim stirs a hornet's nest of copyright concerns
Is there a sustainable model for AI factories?
Navigating the heavy freight of AI data processing
Editor's take: Investors usually hate airlines – they're capital-intensive, have high operating expenses, limited suppliers, and no way to differentiate with customers. How are AI factories any different?
Bill Gates says we don't have to worry about AI energy use
"Let's not go overboard on this"
Move over GPUs, with 1,536 cores the Thunderbird RISC-V CPU is ready to eat your lunch
Open source enables small industries to participate in the accelerator boom
Google Gemini is not as good at analysis as its hype says, other AI models also struggle
The big picture: If there's one thing that generative AI is supposed to be good at, it's analyzing the written word. However, two studies suggest that this ability may have been overhyped. One study demonstrates that Gen AI struggles with understanding long-form books, while another shows that these models find answering questions about videos challenging. This is something companies should consider as they augment their workforce with Gen AI.
Audi is adding ChatGPT into existing cars going back to 2021, more going forward
Use ChatGPT to control your car with your voice
Intel says its optical interconnect chiplet technology is a milestone in high-speed data transmission
It can already support 4 terabits per second bidirectional data transfer across 100 meters