Better AI Stock: Alphabet vs. Meta Platforms

Better AI Stock: Alphabet vs. Meta Platforms

Two similar businesses have different AI implications. Technology giants Alphabet (GOOGL 1.08%) (GOOG 1.06%) and Meta Platforms (META -0.28%) are pretty similar at their core. Both companies dominate their respective fields by offering superior products for free. Both companies make tons of money by selling advertising that users see as they browse the two companies’ …

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AI deepfake Putin film sells big at Cannes

AI deepfake Putin film sells big at Cannes

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin talks to journalists during a state visit to Harbin, China, May 17. Yonhap When Russian President Vladimir Putin was unavailable to star in his biopic, Polish director Patryk Vega turned to artificial intelligence. The groundbreaking film, whose trailer starts with the leader cowering on a floor in diapers, uses a deepfake …

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Japan cram school creates AI detection system for university applications

Japan cram school creates AI detection system for university applications

A Japanese cram school has developed a system to detect whether generative artificial intelligence has been employed in the composition of personal statements by high school students applying for university, amid growing concern over the improper use of such tools. The system developed by Kawaijuku Educational Institution combs through statements submitted for admissions processes that …

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Utility stocks an AI play? (NYSEARCA:XLU)

Utility stocks an AI play? (NYSEARCA:XLU)

shulz Utilities has put in the third-best showing this year among the eleven S&P 500 (SP500) sectors, having advanced 13.6%. Its accompanying Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund ETF (NYSEARCA:XLU) has done even better, gaining 14.2%. The sector has already recouped all of its losses from 2023, while having risen nearly 8% in May alone. This …

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China’s ‘AI-in-a-box’ products threaten Big Tech’s cloud growth strategies

China’s ‘AI-in-a-box’ products threaten Big Tech’s cloud growth strategies

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China’s artificial intelligence groups are selling “AI-in-a-box” products for companies to run on their own premises, in a threat to the AI cloud computing services offered by the country’s big tech groups such as Alibaba, …

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Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?

Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?

Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was …

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Rights Advocates Demand Probe Into Reports That Israel Uses WhatsApp to Target Palestinians

Rights Advocates Demand Probe Into Reports That Israel Uses WhatsApp to Target Palestinians

The Palestinian digital rights group Sada Social on Saturday called for an investigation into Israel’s alleged use of WhatsApp user data to target Palestinians with its AI system, Lavender. The group, which is affiliated with the Al Jazeera Media Institute and Access Now, accused Meta, which owns WhatsApp, of fueling “the ‘Lavender’ artificial intelligence system …

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Artificial intelligence charm is obviously evil

Artificial intelligence charm is obviously evil

Human civilization is about 6,000 years old. The internet is about 40 years old and it’s already chewing up human civilization and human nature and spewing them back out. Maybe electricity, and everything that inevitably followed, was a mistake, letting information move at an accelerating pace that people aren’t made to handle. A decade ago, …

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