Is AI starting to hurt Google’s core search business? That’s the big lingering question following the company’s third-quarter earnings. Google came out of the gates on Wednesday boasting that its year-over-year query growth rate was the highest in the last five years. It also saw a 12% increase in search revenue compared to this time
Maybe it was the grey color, the slightly bulbous roofline, or the vaguely SUV-like proportions of the electric Porsche Macan, but as I shuttled kids and groceries around city and suburban streets, I never once noticed a longing stare from other drivers. Unlike with other cars I’ve tested, no enthusiasts stopped to ask me questions.
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: AI’s X-risk breaks into the mainstream Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for a coordinated industry safety effort Anthropic details attempts to misuse its AI models China’s top spy warns AI could pose a risk to the Communist Party OpenAI is violating California’s new AI safety
Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas and Hugh Bonneville are among the high-profile names backing a new campaign against AI voice cloning. Titled “Save Our Voices Now,” the initiative calls for greater protections against AI technology being used to replicate a person’s voice, according to The Guardian. The group of over 80 industry names — which also
Credit: David Goddard/Getty Can commercial funding fill a £42 million (US$56 million) a year hole in the finances of some of the UK’s most iconic laboratories and science facilities? That is the challenge facing sites run by the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which funds the Diamond Light Source (the national synchrotron facility
