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Google said Tuesday that it plans to tweak Google Search to make it clearer to users which images in search results were generated by AI or edited by AI tools. Over the next few months, Google will mark AI-generated and edited images in the "About this image" window of Search, Google Lens and the Circle to Search feature on Android, the company said, adding that similar alerts could appear on other Google platforms such as YouTube. Similar prompts may appear on other Google platforms, such as YouTube. Google says it will share more information about this later this year. Notably ......

Magnit, a San Francisco-based global HR and talent provider founded through multiple acquisitions over the years, has launched an AI recruiting assistant called "Maggi" (pronounced like "Maggie") that aims to help hiring managers find the right talent easier and faster. (pronounced like "Maggie"), an AI recruiting assistant designed to help hiring managers find the right talent easier and faster. Maggi is part of Magnit's newly integrated workforce management platform, a tool that Magnit hopes will change the way hiring is done today. Vidhya Sr, Magnit's Chief Product and Marketing Officer ......

French AI startup Mistral AI has launched a new free package that lets developers fine-tune and build test applications using the startup's AI models, the company announced in a blog post on Tuesday. The startup has also dramatically slashed the price for developers to access its AI models via API endpoints and added image processing capabilities to its free consumer AI chatbot, Le Chat. Mistral has launched a free package through its API services platform, la Plateforme, which allows developers to experiment without cost, review ......

California has approved a landmark AI bill to protect actors' digital likenesses. Assembly Bill 2602, which will take effect on January 1, 2025, was signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. The bill requires studios and other employers to obtain consent authorization before using "digital replicas" of performers, and Newsom also signed AB 1836, which grants similar rights to deceased performers and requires studios to obtain estate permission before using their AI likenesses. ......

Aramco Digital and artificial intelligence startup Groq have announced plans to build the world's largest artificial intelligence inference data center in Saudi Arabia. The partnership, announced at the Global AI Summit 2024, marks a significant step forward in Saudi Arabia's efforts to become a global AI hub. The facility, which will be operational by the end of the year, will initially house 19,000 Groq language processing units and will eventually expand to 200,000. Tare, CEO of Aramco Digital......

At a meeting with analysts last week, billionaire Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison told the audience that he and Elon Musk, the world's richest man, took NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Nobu Palo Alto for dinner and "begged" Huang to give them more GPUs. "I would describe the dinner as Oracle - Elon and I begging Jensen for GPUs," Ellison recalls. "Please take our money. Please take our money. By the way, I'm having dinner. No, no, no, eat more. We need you more ......

Hong Kong is preparing to issue its first-ever guidance framework on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector, covering the ethical use of AI and general principles for its application in the financial sector, to promote its use in areas such as trading, investment banking and cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. Still drafting and consulting the industry Staff are still drafting the document while consulting the industry, and the framework is expected to consolidate various detailed guidelines from banking and securities regulators, as well as be announced at the Hong Kong FinTech Week, which will be held from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, the report noted. A spokesman for the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, on the other hand, said in a ......

We recently got a glimpse of the $1 billion AI GPU when Elon Musk shared a short video presentation of Cortex, X's AI training supercomputer currently being built at Tesla's Giga factory in Texas. Musk announced on his social media platforms that Colossus, the new 100k H100 training cluster, is now up and running. Musk claims Colossus is "the world's most powerful AI training ......