deep learning

  • Move Over OpenAI, Microsoft Has a New Darling Startup

    Move Over OpenAI, Microsoft Has a New Darling Startup

    Microsoft announced a new partnership with Mistral AI on Monday, a French startup whose advanced large language models rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Mistral also released Mistral Large, its most advanced language model to date, and “le Chat,” a chat interface built on top of Mistral’s models. The multi-year partnership marks a mainstream embrace…


  • Yikes: ‘Rat Dck’ Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal

    Yikes: ‘Rat Dck’ Among Gibberish AI Images Published in Science Journal

    This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators. The open-access paper explores the relationship between stem cells in mammalian testes and a signaling pathway responsible for mediating inflammation and cancer in cells. The paper’s written content…


  • Deepfake Video Call Scams Finance Bro Out of $25 Million

    Deepfake Video Call Scams Finance Bro Out of $25 Million

    A finance worker in Hong Kong hopped on a video call with, what appeared to be, multiple coworkers and his company’s Chief Financial Officer. Everyone looked and sounded real, but it turns out everyone on the call was a deepfake. The employee was scammed into paying out over $US25 million to unknown fraudsters, according to…