Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Is the end of the predominantly human-staffed call center nigh? Controversial San Francisco startup Bland AI, which seeks to automate enterprise phone calls with realistic-sounding AI agents that sometimes pretend... Read more

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person shooter game Doom in real time using AI image generation techniques borrowed from Stable Diffusion. It’s a neural network system that... Read more

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Malicious hackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in a widely used security camera to spread Mirai, a family of malware that wrangles infected Internet of Things devices into large networks for use in attacks that take down websites and other Internet-connected devices. The attacks target the AVM1203, a surveillance... Read more

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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is forbidden from leaving French territory after being charged for complicity in running an online platform that allegedly enabled the spread of sexual images of children, creating an uncertain future for the messaging app that has become one of the world’s biggest social media platforms.... Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google researchers have reached a major milestone in artificial intelligence by creating a neural network that can generate real-time gameplay for the classic shooter Doom—without using a traditional game engine. This system,... Read more

Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? Getty Images Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework that brought its .NET platform to non-Windows systems, to the Wine community. WineHQ will be the steward... Read more

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