Artificial Intelligence

Could be a helpful way to for creators to more easily reply to comments from their audience. The test is small right now and available only on the mobile app, according to a post about the test.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is at Lenovo’s Tech World conference announcing a partnership with... AMD? We’ll hear more about the “x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group” that they’re founding, but for now he’s assuring us that rumors of the x86’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

After joking about “AI” being a drinking game trigger at MAX, Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky said the company is moving away from the “prompt era” of the tech — which “cheapened and undermined the craft of creative professionals” by generating anything from text descriptions.

Instead, the new “control era” aims to improve creative workflows with AI in more specific ways within Creative Cloud apps.

And its example is really something:

A live demonstration of Google’s Vertex AI was given in which it pretended to be an “expert archivist” and was asked questions about the John F. Kennedy assassination. ... These questions included “Who killed Kennedy?” and “What was the CIA’s involvement in the assassination of Kennedy?” 

I see no way this could go wrong!

According to Google, the deal will help “unlock the full potential of AI for everyone”:

The grid needs new electricity sources to support AI technologies that are powering major scientific advances, improving services for businesses and customers, and driving national competitiveness and economic growth. This agreement helps accelerate a new technology to meet energy needs cleanly and reliably, and unlock the full potential of AI for everyone.

Sebastien Bubeck, an AI VP and a distinguished scientist at Microsoft, was key to Microsoft’s work developing its small language models.

A Microsoft spokesperson tells The Information that Bubeck is leaving to continue his work developing AGI. The company also says it looks forward to “continuing our relationship through his work with OpenAI.”

If you like showing off dolls in their original packaging, you might soon be showcasing work from Adobe’s Firefly AI tools. Mattel and Adobe claim AI-generated (and human-refined) backdrops have “greatly shortened the time it takes to get toys into stores” by cutting out parts of the design process, and the results will hit stores soon.

A gadget maker used what sounds like an imperfect but passable AI imitation of Marques Brownlee to promote its products on Instagram. (We’ve reached out to the company but haven’t heard back.) Fake influencer endorsements seem like an inevitable use of AI tools — if you’ve seen anything similar, I’d love to hear about it.

In a long blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei considers the upside of artificial general intelligence (AGI, or as he prefers to call it, “powerful AI”). He pushed back on the idea that he’s a “pessimist” or “doomer” by outlining some grandiose claims for the future of AI:

I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be.

I’d like to point out that the company is reportedly in talks to raise money at a $40 billion valuation.

AMD says the MI325X, shipping Q4, will beat Nvidia’s H200. But Nvidia seems a step ahead; it’ll ship “several billion dollars” of its next-gen Blackwell B200 GPU in Q4, too. AMD says its Blackwell competitor, the MI355X, won’t arrive till 2H 2025.

AMD isn’t talking price, but told us it’ll undercut Nvidia when it comes to total cost of ownership.

OpenAI disrupted more than 20 foreign influence operations over the past year, according to its quarterly threat report. But there’s no “evidence of this leaning to meaningful breakthroughs in their ability to create substantially new malware or build viral audiences,” the report says.

AI has let foreign actors “more quickly and convincingly tailor synthetic content.” But so far, it isn’t reaching much of an audience.

With so many job applications now being reviewed by automated AI software, it’s little wonder some people have embraced using bots like AI Hawk to apply to thousands of roles on their behalf.

AI Hawk co-founder Federico Elia told 404 Media that he created the project to “balance the use of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process” and help re-level the playing field.

After announcing it last month, Google seems to have rolled out Google TV’s AI wallpapers, 9to5Google reports.

According to a Google TV support page, the option lives under Settings > System > Ambient Mode > Custom AI Art. Click on “Create new...” and then describe the image you want, use a template, or choose “Inspire me” and Google TV makes one for you.

It’ll roll out in more languages and to 21 additional countries by the end of the year, starting today with the UK, Brazil, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay, and the Philippines. The AI assistant currently has almost 500 million active monthly users.

Meta AI is also coming to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in Australia and the UK, though the latter is only voice support “to start.”

Reuters reports that Bentley Hensel, a “long-shot congressional challenger” in Virginia, made an AI chatbot of incumbent Don Beyer to stand in if Beyer doesn’t show up to a debate:

DonBot, as the AI is playfully known, is being trained on Beyer’s official websites, press releases, and data from the Federal Election Commission. The text-based AI is based on an API from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

David Pierce called out the lack of timers in his April review of the AI Pin, but now they’re here.

The AI Pin is getting a bunch of other new features, too, thanks to the CosmOS 1.2 update that Humane says is starting to roll out.

Hearst, which owns a substantial portion of the media landscape, has just signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate Hearst content into its products (The Verge’s parent company Vox Media also partners with OpenAI).

Hearst owns 24 daily newspapers and 52 weekly newspapers, 175 websites and more than 200 magazine editions worldwide, making this one of OpenAI’s biggest media partnerships.