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Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.

Remember that selfie you posted last week? There’s currently nothing stopping someone taking it and editing it using powerful generative AI systems. Even worse, thanks to the sophistication of these systems, it might be impossible to prove that the resulting image is fake.  The good news is that a new […]

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:London-based AutogenAI, which offers a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, raised $22.3M; source: the valuation was in the “hundreds of millions”  —  Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal.  Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI …

Mous moves out of the rugged phone case market and into protective, durable backpacks for keeping your devices protected and effectively stored. It’s pricey, but premium.

“Zenbleed” bug affects all Zen 2-based Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC CPUs.

Many people think of generative AI as a tool that allows them to use their own words to ask questions or generate copy and images—both of which it does remarkably well. However, it also has incredible potential to transform our personal and professional work—helping us access, consume, and utilize the […]

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Berkeley CS professor Stuart Russell warn Congress that AI could cause serious harms in a few years  —  Two AI researchers and the CEO of AI startup Anthropic testified about the long-term risks of AI and […]

The Xreal Air AR glasses offer a surprisingly immersive pocket cinema but cost a bit too much to fully justify your purchase.

Beta feature allows ChatGPT to remember key details with less prompt repetition.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s next for the moon It’s been more than 50 years since humans last walked on the moon. But starting this year, an array of missions from private […]