The Makers of Stable Diffusion Now Have Their Own AI Language Model
It seems like everybody and their mother has a large language model these days. Stability AI, one of the companies that made a name for itself early in the AI…
Giant Underground Pools of Water Are Batteries of the Future
In an energy-efficient future, homes may be heated and cooled by pumping from giant pools of water stored underground. A study published this month in Applied Energy looks at how…
Reddit Will Start Charging Big Companies for API Access
Image: Ink Drop (Shutterstock) Reddit execs have noticed that everyone is getting rich off of AI but them. The company announced on Tuesday that it will start charging businesses for…
Fox News and Dominion Settle Defamation Dispute for $787.5 Million
Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News have reached a settlement in the companies’ two-year-long defamation dispute. The agreement was announced by the case’s presiding judge in court on Tuesday afternoon,…
Microsoft Reportedly Pinning its AI Hopes on In-House ‘Athena’ Chip
Microsoft has a lot riding on AI, so much that it’s reportedly developing its own superpowered chip designed specifically for training and running its sophisticated chatbot systems. This chip, code-named…
Chinese Satellite Goes on Inexplicable Sightseeing Tour After Researchers Put AI in Control
There’s been plenty of conversation around using AI in writing and art, but researchers in China have evidently brought machine intelligence to spaceflight. An AI was allowed to control a…
World Leaders Agree to Boost Nuclear Power, While Germany Shuts Its Plants
Some of the world’s largest most influential nations have formed an alliance to create new supply chains for nuclear energy—the same weekend that another country announced it had completely weaned…
The Biggest Killers of Americans: Heart Disease, Cancer—and Being Poor
Being poor is a major leading cause of death in America, new research suggests. The study’s authors estimate that there were roughly 180,000 poverty-related deaths among people over the age…
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Says There’s No Chat GPT-5 to Worry About…Yet
Sam Altman has squashed rumors that OpenAI is already working on ChatGPT-5, just a month after the company’s release of its GPT-4. Currently, there is no GPT-5 in training, Altman…
Stability AI’s New ‘XL’ Is a Super Powered Deepfake Generator for Businesses
As more companies realize it costs quite a bit to create generative AI content, we may be coming to the end of free, open source AI models. One of the…