Facebook owner claims Movie Gen can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips that rival competitors’Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, announced on Friday it had built a new artificial intelligence model called Movie Gen that can create realistic-seeming video and audio clips in response to user prompts, claiming it can rival tools from...

Universities are pivoting to incorporate generative AI into academic life – without the plagiarism – in the belief it will become an intrinsic part of life and workGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThird-year student Jack Quinlan was confident he knew what I was going to ask before we conducted our interview. He wasn’t psychic,...

Sea levels along the US coastline could rise as much as 12in from 2020 to 2050 due to climate crisis, scientists warnFloods affecting much of the south-east US show the destructive force of higher sea levels and warmer temperatures. Now, researchers at the non-profit Climate Central are using artificial intelligence to predict how climate-related flooding...

Some California police departments are already using AI tools to help draft reports – and experts are concernedOfficer Wendy Venegas spoke softly in Spanish to the 14-year-old standing on the side of a narrow residential road in East Palo Alto. The girl’s face was puffy from crying as she quietly explained what had happened.The girl said her father...

The startup behind ChatGP, which is reportedly planning to become a for-profit business, is now valued on par with UberOpenAI has raised $6.6bn (£5bn) in a funding round that values the artificial intelligence business at $157bn, with chipmaker Nvidia and Japanese group SoftBank among its investors.The San Francisco-based startup, responsible for the...

Event will push for greater transparency and aims to rank AI firms in terms of ability to meet climate goalsWorld leaders at the next AI summit will focus on the impact on the environment and jobs, including the possibility of ranking the greenest AI companies, it has been announced.Rating artificial intelligence companies in terms of their ecological...