As scandals involving the use of artificial intelligence by professional authors pile up, a British startup has established a way for publishers to certify their…
Author: Joel Khalili
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete…
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
With the twirl of a thumbstick, squeeze of a trigger, and press of a few buttons, even an unskilled player can dance their way through…
The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
Recently, warnings from researchers inside the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that…
A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Academic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so damaged that their meaning is…
‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction
When Petra Ferraz de Novaes isn’t at work, she’s probably lost in a fantasy crafted with the help of artificial intelligence. Novaes, a 36-year-old software…
The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
As data center developers compete for a cut of the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the artificial intelligence industry, the queue to join…
The Single English County Saying No to Palantir
The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and…
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
Mistral is having a moment. With access to less funding and fewer compute resources than OpenAI and Anthropic, the French AI lab has lagged behind…