At least 11 engineers and two co-founders are departing xAI following SpaceX's acquisition announcement, with former employees citing the company's disregard for AI safety protocols. Sources report that Elon Musk is acti...
OpenAI's video-generating app Sora recorded approximately 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week in the U.S. and Canada, nearly matching ChatGPT's first-week performance of 606,000 U.S. downloads. Despite being invite-o...
OpenAI has released Sora, a TikTok-like social media app with advanced video generation capabilities that allow users to create realistic deepfakes through a "cameo" feature using biometric data. The app is already fille...
OpenAI released Sora 2, an advanced audio and video generation model with improved physics simulation, alongside a new social app called Sora. The platform features a "cameos" function allowing users to insert their own...
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder and engineering lead at Elon Musk's xAI, announced his departure to launch Babuschkin Ventures, a VC firm focused on AI safety research. His exit follows several scandals involving xAI's Grok...
ElevenLabs' Head of AI Safety and Databricks co-founder participated in a discussion about AI safety and ethics challenges. The conversation covered issues like deepfakes, responsible AI deployment, and the difficulty of...
TechCrunch Sessions: AI will feature discussions between Artemis Seaford (Head of AI Safety at ElevenLabs) and Ion Stoica (co-founder of Databricks) about the urgent ethical challenges posed by increasingly powerful and...
ByteDance researchers have unveiled OmniHuman-1, a new AI system capable of generating remarkably convincing deepfake videos from just a single reference image and audio input. The system, trained on 19,000 hours of vide...
