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Researchers tested AI chat models as they played virtual games of world-building. (Source: AI image Dall-E 3)

Researchers discover some AI hallucinate thoughts of the "Death Star" and "The Matrix" negotiating peace while others start wars in virtual games of "Risk"

Researchers have discovered differences in AI when presented with virtual nation-building scenarios. Some AI like Claude-2.0 are biased towards non-violent solutions while others like GPT-3.5 are biased towards violent solutions i...

David Chien, 13 Feb 2024 23:40

Audacity with Intel's free AI plugins allow music editors and podcasters to do more. (Source: Intel at Github)

Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins

Audacity has added AI audio editing capabilities thanks to Intel’s free OpenVINO plugins. These plugins add AI-powered noise suppression, speech transcription, music generation and remixing, and music separation to the freeware so...

David Chien, 13 Feb 2024 02:29

Microsoft hopes to improve the gaming performance of Windows PCs using AI. (Image: Microsoft)

Better gaming performance in Windows 11 24H2: Microsoft AI Super Resolution competes with DLSS and FSR

Microsoft may soon make choosing the right graphics card easier, as Windows 11 24H2, an AI-based alternative to Nvidia Deep Learning Super Sampling that is said to flexible in utilizing the hardware of various GPU manufacturers, w...

Hannes Brecher, 13 Feb 2024 00:03

OK-Robot's AI system only manages to pick up 58.5 % of objects in particularly untidy homes (symbolic image: DALL-E / AI)

Meta's OK-Robot can tidy up a room without any help

OK-Robot, a new AI system, enables robots to tidy up homes that are new to them. The system recognises objects and puts them in the right place. OK-Robot still struggles in very cluttered rooms, but Meta's project is much more suc...

Nicole Dominikowski, 12 Feb 2024 17:47

Google Clips launched for $249 in 2017, which was considered pricey for what it could do. (Image source: Google/Internet Archive)

Google Clips: Time for a relaunch?

CheckMag Google Clips wasn't a success, but with recent advancements, updated specs, and additional features, Google might want to bring this product back to the market.

Habeeb Onawole, 12 Feb 2024 16:10

Brilliant Labs unveils Frame AR smart glasses with multimodal AI for real-time visual search and translation

Frame is a newly launched pair of AI-enabled smart AR glasses from Brilliant Labs, featuring a discreet camera and a micro-OLED colour display projected onto the lens. Using a voice assistant and multimodal AI models, it can do a ...

Vishal Bhardwaj, 12 Feb 2024 11:11

Microsoft is testing a Copilot feature that may become as ubiquitous as the Clipboard. (Source: Microsoft)

Microsoft Copilot integrates more tightly with Windows 11

Per the latest Windows 11 Canary build, Copilot’s functionality now cuts across text and images copied from any window, and Notepad is on its way to becoming the first system app to directly integrate with Copilot. Clearly, Micros...

Sarfo Ashong-Listowell, 11 Feb 2024 16:56

The 10 from 10Beauty is a fully automated, AI-powered manicure machine. (Source: 10Beauty)

10Beauty launches The 10 - an AI-powered, manicure machine

10Beauty will launch an AI-powered manicure machine 'The 10' in late 2024 after pre-selling 1,000 units to Nordstrom, Ulta Beauty, and hair salons across the country. The groundbreaking machine has been in stealth development for ...

David Chien, 11 Feb 2024 07:27

GPTshop AI workstation PCs start at $43,500 (Image source: GPTshop)

Pre-built GPTshop AI workstation PC with Grace Hopper Nvidia CPU and GPU costs over $40K

GPTshop has announced a new AI workstation PC lineup with Nvidia Grace Hopper CPU and GPU. The first configuration available to purchase comes with a GH200 72-core Grace CPU and H100 Tensor Core GPU. It offers 576 GB of fast-acces...

Abid Ahsan Shanto, 11 Feb 2024 06:57

Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs (Image source: Nvidia Corp)

Nvidia builds a new unit to supply ChatGPT, Microsoft, Google and Meta with custom AI chips

Nvidia, the leading global designer and supplier of AI chips, is setting up a new business unit to focus on creating custom chips for cloud computing companies and other businesses. The move aims to carve out a piece of the rapidl...

Robert Gelo, 10 Feb 2024 21:46

The Google AI chatbot Bard is dead. Its AI successor is called Google Gemini.

Google Gemini: AI chatbot Bard is dead, Gemini Advanced (Ultra 1.0) as a subscription for 22 euros

Google has renamed its AI chatbot Bard to Google Gemini and also added new functions and improvements to its most powerful artificial intelligence: 40 languages supported, Gemini app for Android and iPhone (in the Google app for i...

Ronald Matta, 09 Feb 2024 15:51

Nvidia's market cap is growing so fast, already breathing down Amazon's and Alphabet's neck thanks to increasing AI demand

Team Green seems relentless, with more than 300% gains YoY and is now threatening to overtake Amazon's and Alphabet's market cap. Apple and Microsoft might be safe for a while, but with the ever increasing AI accelerator demand, t...

Bogdan Solca, 09 Feb 2024 15:31

An example of MGIE input and output. (Source: arXiv)

Apple MGIE released as open-source AI image-editing tool

Apple's latest AI model is hailed as "revolutionary" due to its ability to perform tasks such as "Photoshop-style modifications" based on prompts processed using multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Accordingly, it is called ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 08 Feb 2024 18:46

The AiSee headset describes objects to wearers with poor vision through AI image identification. (Source: AHL at NUS)

University of Singapore researchers showcase latest AiSee headset prototype enabling the blind to see the world through AI voice descriptions

National University of Singapore researchers have showcased the latest prototype of their AiSee headset for the blind. Initially a University of Auckland project, the headset utilizes a camera, bone conduction speakers, and AI to ...

David Chien, 07 Feb 2024 23:36

Vision Pro owners can now use ChatGPT (Image source: Apple)

ChatGPT app is now available for Apple Vision Pro

OpenAI has unveiled a new ChatGPT app for Vision Pro, which marks the advent of AI in AR. Users will able to download the ChatGPT app from the visionOS App Store for free.

Nitisha Upadhye, 06 Feb 2024 04:12

Pictory GPT for Videos available for ChatGPT Plus (Source: Own)

Pictory GPT for Videos brings AI-powered video creation to ChatGPT

With more than 2 million unique users last year, the AI-powered video creation service Pictory is now available as a powerful feature for ChatGPT users. Only available to Plus subscribers, it can quickly turn simple ideas into vid...

Codrut Nistor, 06 Feb 2024 01:01

False, true or half-true? Who knows for sure? (Source: pixabay/Elf-Moondance)

Recognizing deepfakes: Difficult, but not hopeless

False claims, misleading reports, lack of context: nothing new. Accompanied by AI-generated photos, videos and sound, however, the whole thing takes on unexpected credibility. But at least there are a few insights that can help wi...

Mario Petzold, 05 Feb 2024 21:33

'Bard' might soon become 'Gemini' (Image source: Google Blog)

Google to rebrand Bard as ‘Gemini’ and release an app

As per an Android app developer, Google is planning to rebrand ‘Bard’ as ‘Gemini,’ introduce major upgrades, and even launch an app that will be available to iOS users.

Nitisha Upadhye, 05 Feb 2024 08:11

OnePlus 12 and its predecessor gets three AI features in China (Image source: OnePlus)

OnePlus brings AI features to OnePlus 12 and OnePlus 11 in China

OnePlus 12 has made its global debut at the end of last month. While it runs on the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as some of the devices in the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, it didn’t introduce any fancy AI features at launch. But OnePlus ...

Abid Ahsan Shanto, 04 Feb 2024 07:50

Intel dreaming of an Xbox APU (Image Source: SDXL)

Microsoft allegedly reluctant to select AMD for next gen Xbox console contract, Intel trying to seize huge opportunity

Moore's Law Is Dead reports that Microsoft has always tried to shop around before turning to AMD just to obtain a better deal. For the next gen console contract, however, Microsoft sure seems to be taking its sweet time picking a ...

Bogdan Solca, 03 Feb 2024 15:38

Nvidia Voyager Building in Santa Clara, California (Image source: Nvidia Corp)

Nvidia shares skyrocket as they take on Huawei in China

Nvidia Corporation's market capitalization soared to record highs in January, marking the largest monthly increase in the company's history. The surge was driven by a combination of factors, including growing optimism surrounding ...

Robert Gelo, 03 Feb 2024 09:49

A "steampunk fashion" image created by Bard. (Source: Google)

Google Bard upgrades to image generation and chat in more languages

Google has announced that its chatbot is now able to work with text in many more languages besides English, and can also be made to double-check the results of its responses. Bard also now supports AI-generated images thanks to on...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 02 Feb 2024 22:12

Copilot for Sales in action (Source: Microsoft)

Microsoft Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service now generally available

Starting yesterday, Copilot for Sales and Copilot for Service are available to those in need of adding enterprise-grade AI capabilities to their Microsoft 365 applications. Copilot's power can also be seamlessly integrated into CR...

Codrut Nistor, 02 Feb 2024 14:24

The Dimensity 9400 leaks again. (Source: MediaTek)

Dimensity 9400 generative AI gains outlined in new leak

The MediaTek Dimensity 9300 is a flagship-grade chipset for mobile devices backed for impressive performance with models such as Stable Diffusion or Llama 2. However, its alleged successor the 9400 is now touted to be even more po...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 31 Jan 2024 18:43

Google unveils Lumiere - the latest in generative AI that creates realistic video clips from text. (Source: Google Research)

Google unveils Lumiere generative AI to create more realistic images and videos from text

Google has unveiled Lumiere - the latest in realistic text-to-image and text-to-video generation using machine learning. A key innovation is the ability to create realistic motion such as walking that current generative AIs have t...

David Chien, 31 Jan 2024 09:52

Samsung AI stands for 'Advanced Intelligence'. (Image: Notebookcheck)

Samsung AI stands for "Advanced Intelligence", gives users option run features on-device only

Unlike most companies implying 'Artificial Intelligence' when using the common abbreviation ‘AI’, Samsung is using it to mean ‘Advanced Intelligence’. Although the company hasn't made its reasons public, it is apparent it wants to...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 30 Jan 2024 01:32

RTX Remix can fundamentally change the look of a game. (Image: Cycu1)

RTX Remix: Videos show impressive "AI remakes" of Tomb Raider and Need for Speed Underground 2

Using RTX Remix, Nvidia is making it possible to add features such as ray tracing, DLSS and Nvidia Reflex to retro games with minimal effort, while AI is able to generate higher-resolution versions of existing textures. Comparison...

Hannes Brecher, 29 Jan 2024 22:25

Tesla Dojo AI supercomputer 15 kW tile (Source: Steve Jurvetson)

Tesla to buy Nvidia and AMD hardware worth billions to fuel its AI efforts

Last year's first Dojo supercomputer will not remain single for long, reveals Elon Musk. According to Tesla's founder and CEO, the company will spend well above the $1 billion threshold on both Nvidia (H100) and AMD (Instinct MI30...

Codrut Nistor, 28 Jan 2024 22:22

Opera One is coming to iOS. (Source: Opera)

Opera One for iOS hyped to bring more AI search options to more open Apple ecosystem

Opera has announced that it will celebrate its wider, DMA-mandated access to the Apple ecosystem by unleashing a version of the "AI-centric" One browser for iPhones. The company asserts that its app will stand out in the coming in...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 27 Jan 2024 18:32

Apple is going hard to catch up on generative AI. (Image: Dall-E 3)

Apple pushing to catch up on AI suggest acquisitions, job postings

Apple is working hard to catch up to the competition in adding generative AI features to its devices, including its flagship iPhones. The company is busy acquiring start-ups and hiring AI specialists, but the new features aren’t l...

Sanjiv Sathiah, 26 Jan 2024 10:54

OpenAI could design its own AI accelerators in the near future. (Image Source: SDXL)

OpenAI looking to reduce reliance on Nvidia's GPUs, plans to make its own AI chips at TSMC

CEO Sam Altman is reportedly discussing funding with UAE investors regarding a proprietary AI accelerator venture that is meant to eliminate the need for Nvidia GPUs. TSMC is also considered as production partner.

Bogdan Solca, 25 Jan 2024 16:41

Microsoft's headquarters. (Image: Microsoft)

Microsoft cracks $3 trillion market cap as investors back AI push

Microsoft has joined Apple in the $3 trillion market valuation club after cracking the milestone on Wednesday. The share price surge has coincided with the company’s aggressive adoption of generative AI technologies.

Sanjiv Sathiah, 25 Jan 2024 12:23

The Blade 14 2024 is here. (Source: Razer)

Razer Blade 14 2024 goes up for pre-order with new Ryzen platform and RTX 4000-series graphics

Razer has now outlined the specs with which the Blade 14 2024 is available from today (January 23, 2024), the first day of its pre-order phase. They include the new Ryzen 9 8945HS silicon touted to confer "advanced AI" on this ite...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 23 Jan 2024 19:24

Top 4 innovations from CES 2024 (Source: CSEED)

Best of CES 2024: From Rabbit R1 to LG transparent TV

CheckMag CES 2024 featured a range of innovative products that are shaping the future of consumer technology. Below are the top 4 standout products from the event. While these innovations might not be immediately available for purchase, th...

Triet Le, 21 Jan 2024 21:40

The Sony ZV-E10 II is apparently well on the way to refresh Sony's conpact APS-C mirrorless line-up. (Image source Sony)

Sony ZV-E10 II leak confirms launch date for new E-Mount APS-C hybrid camera with A6700 power

A new Sony ZV-E10 II leak claims that the Japanese camera maker will update its compact, video-centric APS-C mirrorless camera in Spring 2024 with similar specifications and capabilities to the Sony A6700 and a very affordable pri...

Julian van der Merwe, 21 Jan 2024 02:01

BMW is experimenting with humanoid robots inspired by Tesla's Optimus (Image: Figure)

Following Tesla's lead, BMW will use humanoid robots in car production: 10 million jobs could be replaced

After Tesla caused a sensation with its humanoid robot Optimus and Hyundai teamed up with Boston Dynamics, which became famous for its robot dog Spot, BMW is now following suit: Robots with artificial intelligence are to be used i...

Nicole Dominikowski, 20 Jan 2024 20:36

Insta360 AI Warp roll-out to X3, GO 3 and ONE RS line begins

Insta360's AI Warp is a feature rated to "transform your footage into something extraordinary" based on the prompts it receives. It was exclusive to the latest Ace and Ace Pro action cameras from their launch - however, it is now ...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 19 Jan 2024 19:17

Note Assist is one of many 'Galaxy AI' features that Samsung has showcased in dedicated videos. (Image source: Samsung)

Samsung shows new Galaxy AI features shipping with Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24 Plus and Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones in hands-on videos

Samsung has now detailed the countless AI features that it plans to begin shipping next with the Galaxy S24 series under its 'Galaxy AI' banner in a new set of videos. Functionality with dedicated videos includes Live Translate, a...

Alex Alderson, 19 Jan 2024 16:15

DermaSensor is a compact handheld device for detecting skin cancer using light. (Source: DermaSensor)

DermaSensor announces FDA clearance for AI-powered, skin cancer detection device for primary care physicians

DermaSensor has announced FDA clearance for its skin cancer detection device targeting use by primary care physicians. AI reflected-light analysis improves detection rates so even primary care physicians can more accurately diagno...

David Chien, 19 Jan 2024 09:33

According to a leak, Amazon hopes to earn a lot of money with a new super Alexa in its subscription model.

Leak: Amazon is planning a super Alexa and hopes to earn good money with Alexa Plus

Amazon's AI and voice assistant Alexa is still in financial difficulties. As leaked information from internal Amazon documents suggests, Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant into super Alexa, while Alexa Plus is set to la...

Ronald Matta, 18 Jan 2024 23:09

The MSI Claw is Intel's first Meteor Lake gaming handheld, and it shows some serious promise. (Image source: MSI - edited)

MSI Claw A1M: 4 epic features that turn the latest gaming handheld into a Steam Deck killer

CheckMag The Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU and its Arc iGPU in the MSI Claw A1M are set to break AMD's apparent monopoly on gaming handhelds, but hall-effect joysticks and a Thunderbolt 4 port are also strengths that cannot be ignored with this p...

Julian van der Merwe, 18 Jan 2024 22:04

Tesla Optimus folds shirts - but not autonomously (Image: Elon Musk on X)

Tesla Optimus: Elon Musk busted cheating in latest humanoid robot demonstration

Tesla Optimus appears to have evolved considerably, as Elon Musk shows in a recent video on X (formerly Twitter). However, an eagle-eyed viewer noticed that the demonstration of the humanoid robot's latest skills appeared to be ch...

Nicole Dominikowski, 17 Jan 2024 21:11

The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2's specs. (Source: Qualcomm)

Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3 SoC tipped to launch as mini-8 Gen 3 with premium main core

Qualcomm is now said to have an upcoming chipset in the works that might mimic the new top-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC linked to top-end Android smartphones such as the new Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in one or a number of ways. Howev...

Deirdre O'Donnell, 17 Jan 2024 19:06

The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has finally been launched (image via Daniel Schmidt, Notebookcheck)

Galaxy Unpacked | Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: Flagship smartphone unveiled with an improved telephoto camera, Wi-Fi 7 and tons of AI

Samsung has finally launched the Galaxy S24 Ultra alongside the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+. Most of its improvements are marginal, except for a more powerful telephoto camera and minor QoL upgrades.

Anil Ganti, 17 Jan 2024 19:00

Microsoft introduces Copilot Pro subscription for 22 euros per month

Microsoft has attracted various customers with the free Copilot app and now is launching a paid version of the AI assistant that has more functions. Copilot Pro is aimed at consumers and small to medium-sized companies.

Christian Hintze, 16 Jan 2024 18:19

The Tack GPS Plus can track loved ones worldwide using GPS, Wi-Fi, and LTE networks. (Source: Tack One)

CES 2024 | Tack One unveils Tack GPS Plus to track people and objects worldwide over LTE-M networks

Tack One has unveiled the Tack GPS Plus location tracker. This latest model transmits location information continuously over LTE-M networks worldwide to track people and objects worldwide. The Tack GPS Plus adds Indoor Elevation F...

David Chien, 16 Jan 2024 10:24

The Maxi-Cosi See Pro 360° Baby Monitor understands baby cries using AI technology. (Source: Maxi-Cosi)

Maxi-Cosi launches See Pro 360° Baby Monitor that interprets the meaning of baby cries with AI CryAssist to simplify parenting

Maxi-Cosi has launched the See Pro 360° Baby Monitor. The remote camera allows parents to monitor babies on smartphones while the innovative AI CryAssist technology interprets baby cries for simplified parenting. Now parents know ...

David Chien, 16 Jan 2024 08:48