Artificial intelligence

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Apple event in Cupertino, Calif., Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Key new features coming to Apple’s iOS 18 this fall

Apple announced a slew of new features for iOS 18 at Monday’s developers conference event, many of which are designed to enhance the Siri assistant and bring artificial intelligence tools to iPhone users.

Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during an announcement of new products at the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Apple leaps into AI with an array of upcoming iPhone features and a ChatGPT deal to smarten up

FILE - The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI

FILE - Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center on Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT could soon run out of what keeps making them smarter — the tens of trillions of words that people have written and shared online. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text

Former OpenAI employees lead push to protect whistleblowers flagging artificial intelligence risks

Apple enters AI race with ambitions to overtake early leaders

Apple jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses during its World Wide Developers Conference, previewing an onslaught of features designed to soup up the iPhone and other popular products with technology already available on rival devices.

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German dying of cancer creates digital AI twin of himself to be with family after his death

South Korea prepares to host global forum on artificial intelligence safety - AP Explains

Google incorporates AI into its search engine

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Anett Bommer holds the arm of her husband Michael Bommer, who is terminally ill with colon cancer, during a meeting with The Associated Press at his home in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. Bommer, who has only a few more weeks to live, teamed up with friend who runs the AI-powered legacy platform Eternos to "create a comprehensive, interactive AI version of himself, allowing relatives to engage with his life experiences and insights," after he has passed away. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

AI is imitating the dead and dying, raising new questions about grieving

Several companies have emerged in the last few years to develop grief-related technology, where users can interact with an AI version of the deceased.

FILE - President Joe Biden is photographed by participants after delivering a speech commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Democrats wanted an agreement on using artificial intelligence. It went nowhere

As campaigns nationwide experimented with artificial intelligence earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee approached their committees with a request that they sign on to guidelines to use the technology in a “responsible” way.

FILE - Liz Reid, Google head of Search, speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024. Google said on Friday, May 31, 2024, it has made "more than a dozen technical improvements" to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google makes fixes to AI-generated search summaries after outlandish answers went viral

Google said Friday it has made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to its artificial intelligence systems after its retooled search engine was found spitting out erroneous information.

FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks in the ballroom of Muenster Town Hall, in Muenster, Germany, May 28, 2024. A group that monitors for misinformation found deep problems when it tested the most popular artificial intelligence voice-cloning tools and asked them to create audio of some of the world's leading political figures. (Jana Rodenbusch/Pool Photo via AP)

Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders

A new report from a digital civil rights group has found that publicly available artificial intelligence tools can be easily weaponized to churn out convincing election lies in the voices of top American and European politicians.

One Tech Tip: Want to turn off Meta AI? You can’t — but there are some workarounds

If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram. you probably noticed a new character pop up — answering search queries, entering your group chats and eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds.

FILE — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman participates in a discussion during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit, Nov. 16, 2023, in San Francisco. The U.N. telecommunications agency has kicked off its annual AI for Good conference in hopes of guiding business, consumers and governments on ways to tap the promise of the new technology but avoid its potential perils. OpenAI chief Sam Altman whose company created ChatGPT is among the tech leaders set to join the Geneva event Thursday, May 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

OpenAI’s Altman sidesteps questions about governance, Johansson at UN AI summit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was a star speaker at the annual AI for Good conference Thursday, addressing the U.N. telecommunications agency’s annual gathering about how to tap the societal promise of artificial intelligence technology.

California advances measures targeting AI discrimination and deepfakes

California lawmakers have advanced a host of artificial intelligence proposals that would protect jobs, build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination, and outlaw deepfakes involving elections or pornography.

FILE - Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 14, 2024. Bloopers — some funny, others disturbing — have been shared on social media since Google unleashed a makeover of its search page that frequently puts AI-generated summaries on top of search results. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Cats on the moon? Google’s AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried

Google’s search engine used to spit out a ranked list of websites that might help you figure out an answer to your question.

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 16, 2024. China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine, in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

China’s latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s political ideology

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by.

Arati Prabhakar, left photo, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Jennifer Klein, Director of the White House Gender Policy Council, are shown in 2023 file photos. Klein and Prabhakar are co-authors of a Thursday announcement calling on the tech industry and financial institutions to commit to new measures to curb the creation of AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery. (AP Photo, file)

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes

President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market of abusive sexual images made with artificial intelligence technology.

Takeaways: How intelligence agencies’ are cautiously embracing generative AI

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, convinced they’ll otherwise be smothered in data as sensor-generated surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

(AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn)

US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent

U.S. intelligence agencies are scrambling to embrace the AI revolution, believing they’ll otherwise be smothered by an avalanche of data as surveillance tech further blankets the planet.

Attempts to regulate AI’s hidden hand in Americans’ lives flounder in US statehouses

State lawmakers first attempts at regulating discrimination from artificial intelligence have floundered in states across the country.

FILE - Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel speaks from the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Feb. 14, 2022. The nation’s top telecommunications regulator is introducing a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use content generated by artificial intelligence in broadcast TV and radio ads. The proposal announced Wednesday by Rosenworcel would add a layer of transparency that many lawmakers and AI experts have requested, as rapidly advancing AI technology threatens to mislead voters. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

FCC will consider rules for AI-generated political ads on TV and radio, but can’t touch streaming

The nation’s top telecommunications regulator is introducing a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use content generated by artificial intelligence in broadcast TV and radio ads.

FILE - A sign indicating MasterCard credit cards are accepted is posted at a New York business, Jan. 21, 2015. Mastercard said Wednesday, May 21, 2024, that it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Using AI, Mastercard expects to find compromised cards quicker, before they get used by criminals

Mastercard says it expects to be able to discover that your credit or debit card number has been compromised well before it ends up in the hands of a cybercriminal.

A screen shows an announcement of the AI Seoul Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

AI companies make fresh safety promise at Seoul summit, nations agree to align work on risks

Leading artificial intelligence companies made a fresh pledge at a mini-summit Tuesday to develop AI safely, while world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to advance research and testing of the technology.

Brett Ostrum, Microsoft corporate vice president of Surface, holds up the new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro with built-in AI hardware during a showcase event of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, at Microsoft headquarters, Monday, May 20, 2024, in Redmond, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Microsoft’s AI chatbot will ‘recall’ everything you do on a PC

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.

FILE - Scarlett Johansson poses for photographers at the photo call for the film "Asteroid City" at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 24, 2023. OpenAI plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices after some drew similarities to Johansson, who famously portrayed a fictional AI assistant in the (perhaps no longer so futuristic) film “Her.” (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Scarlett Johansson says a ChatGPT voice is ‘eerily similar’ to hers and OpenAI is halting its use

OpenAI says it plans to halt the use of one of its ChatGPT voices that “Her” actor Scarlett Johansson says sounds “eerily similar” to her own.

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Insider Q&A: CIA’s chief technologist’s cautious embrace of generative AI

The CIA’s first chief technology officer Nand Mulchandani is marshaling generative AI tools to the intelligence agency.

FILE - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunk, center, speaks during a plenary session at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England, on Nov. 2, 2023. South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain in 2023 that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool, File)

Things to know about an AI safety summit in Seoul

South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence.

FILE -President Joe Biden, right, greets China's President President Xi Jinping, left, at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, USA, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva. NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the countries exchanged perspectives on AI safety and risk management in “candid and constructive” discussions a day earlier. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

In first AI dialogue, US cites ‘misuse’ of AI by China, Beijing protests Washington’s restrictions

The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Senators urge $32 billion in emergency spending on AI after finishing yearlong review

A bipartisan group of four senators led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is recommending that Congress spend at least $32 billion over the next three years to develop artificial intelligence and put safeguards around it.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Google unleashes AI in search, raising hopes for better results and fears about less web traffic

Google has rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links.

Dr. Laurie Margolies demonstrates the Koios DS Smart Ultrasound software, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, at Mount Sinai hospital in New York. The breast imaging AI is used to get a second opinion on mammography ultrasounds. “I will tell patients, ‘I looked at it, and the computer looked at it, and we both agree,’” Margolies said. “Hearing me say that we both agree, I think that gives the patient an even greater level of confidence.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better than ever?

As AI moves into medicine, perhaps no one has more to gain or lose than radiologists, the doctors who review medical scans for signs of cancer and other diseases.

OpenAI launches GPTo, improving ChatGPT’s text, visual and audio capabilities

OpenAI has introduced a new artificial intelligence model. It says it works faster than previous versions and can reason across text, audio and video in real time.

FILE -President Joe Biden, right, greets China's President President Xi Jinping, left, at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, USA, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva. NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the countries exchanged perspectives on AI safety and risk management in “candid and constructive” discussions a day earlier. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

China and US envoys will hold the first top-level dialogue on artificial intelligence in Geneva

High-level envoys from the United States and China are set to meet in Geneva for talks about artificial intelligence.

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Intel exec on bringing artificial intelligence into the workplace

Artificial intelligence is just about everywhere you look these days — including the workplace. That means training staff on the technology and using it responsibly is critical.

Alexis Bogan, whose speech was impaired by a brain tumor, uses an AI powered smartphone app to create a audible drink order at a Starbucks drive-thru on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Lincoln, R.I. The app converts her typed entries into a verbal message created using her original voice. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone

Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it.

An AI-enabled Air Force F-16 fighter jet, left, flies next to an adversary F-16, as both aircraft race within 1,000 feet of each other, trying to force their opponent into vulnerable positions, on Thursday, May 2, 2024, above Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The flight is serving as a public statement of confidence in the future role of AI in air combat. The military is planning to use the technology to operate an unmanned fleet of 1,000 aircraft. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

US aims to stay ahead of China in using AI to fly fighter jets, navigate without GPS and more

When two U.S. fighter jets recently faced off in a dogfight in California, only one was piloted by a human.

FILE - California Gov. Gavin Newsom during a news conference, March 21, 2024, in Los Angeles. California announced Thursday, May 9, 2024, it is partnering with five companies to develop generative AI tools to help deliver public services. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

California is testing new generative AI tools. Here’s what to know

California is partnering with five companies to develop generative AI tools to help the state deliver public services.