Analysis-Musk dealt blow over Grok deepfakes, but regulatory fight far from over

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot is testing Europe's ability to clamp down on deepfakes and digital undressing of images online, even ...

Images of ousted Venezuelan president and wife arriving in New York are AI-generated

US forces captured former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in a bombing raid on January 3 and ...

Google connects Gemini to users’ emails and photos in push to build a personal assistant

Google's new Personal Intelligence feature connects Gemini with Gmail, photos, search, and YouTube history to deliver ...
IEEE

Exploiting Local Features and Range Images for Small Data Real-Time Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Abstract: Semantic segmentation of point clouds is an essential task for understanding the environment in autonomous driving and robotics. Recent range-based works achieve real-time efficiency, while ...
IEEE

Data Augmentation: Synthetic Image Generation for Medical Images Using Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoders

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized medical imaging, significantly improving diagnostic accuracy via the evaluation of X-rays, MRIs, and CT scans. However, the effectiveness of ...
The New York Times

As A.I. Companies Borrow Billions, Debt Investors Grow Wary

Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious. By Joe Rennison Investors in the A.I.-fueled stock market have ...
NPR

What AI data centers are doing to your electric bill

As a country, we are spending more to get data centers up and running than we spent to build the entire interstate highway system. (Yes, that's inflation-adjusted.) With tech companies spending ...
The New York Times

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.” By Lisa Friedman Brad Plumer and Jack Healy Lisa Friedman and Brad Plumer reported from ...