Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!
Third-party skills and smart speaker incarnations also discontinued Microsoft’s decided to restrict the roles its AI assistant Cortana is permitted…
US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years
Plus: Latest hardware results from MLPerf and why so-called text deepfakes are dangerous In brief Rite Aid, an American drugstore…
So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet
Don’t bother packing your bags for HSC J1631+4426 just yet, it’s 430 million light years away Astronomers have spied a…
Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected
A neural net takes to heart the old, silly saying: ‘On the internet, men are men, women are men, and…
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China’s)
Uncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what? Face masks worn to reduce the spread of…
New Zealand government to explain its algorithms to stop robo-bias warping policy
But won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is New Zealand has created what it…
Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m?
Plus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to… humans In brief An infosec biz has shared an audio…
Amazon’s auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers
Want your AI assistant to shout obscenities or hate speech at your child? There’s a program for that Amazon claims…
Sick of AI engines scraping your pics for facial recognition? Here’s a way to Fawkes them right up
Cloaking code contaminates snapshots so they’re useless for face matching Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Sand Lab have developed…
SEC drags Silicon Valley AI upstart to court over claims of made-up revenues, investors swindled out of $11m
No, surely not, no way, we’re utterly shocked America’s financial watchdog has taken a Silicon Valley AI startup and its…
World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong
Funny that! The World Health Organisation’s Facebook Messenger chatbot refuses to break out the latest numbers of COVID-19 cornavirus cases…
Germany bans Tesla from claiming its Autopilot software is potentially autonomous
Also: Create the killer AI Doom player on a workstation In brief A judge in Munich has ruled in favor…
51 years after humans first set foot on the Moon, a deepfaked Nixon mourns how Armstrong and Aldrin never made it home
I am not a …. {NASA nightmare brought to life by AI} On the 51st anniversary of the Apollo 11…
Nvidia watches Brit upstart Graphcore swing into rear-view mirror waving beastly second-gen AI chip hardware
Colossus Mk2 boasts of even more transistors than the top GPU Video British AI chipmaker Graphcore has announced a new…
Don’t want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It’s now easier to opt out of the slurp
And you’ve told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah? Did you know if…
You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
The only winning move is… not to play? Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its…
Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software
Plus: IB students kick up a stink over algorithm grading, and more In brief A man was charged after he…
Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest
Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service Microsoft has kicked a five-year-old out onto the cold, hard Chinese streets…
Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview
Investigation follows Canada’s decision to give image-scraping biz the boot Following Canada’s lead earlier this week, privacy watchdogs in Britain…
FYI: You do all know that America’s tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?
They’re more than happy to take Uncle Sam’s coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley Despite…