Awkwafina, other celebs to voice Meta AI chatbot: report

Awkwafina will reportedly lend her voice to Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI. A source familiar with the matter told Reuter...

Resurfaced video shows creator of world’s 1st AI software engineer was math prodigy

A video of Scott Wu, the founder and CEO of Cognition Labs and creator of the AI software engineer Devin, showcasing his exceptional mathema...

Asian countries shine at inaugural international AI olympiad

Singapore, China and Vietnam won big at the inaugural International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) 2024, held in Burgas, Bulgari...

Awkwafina’s voice may soon power Meta’s AI assistant

Awkwafina’s distinctive voice could soon be integrated into various Meta platforms and products, as Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly ...

Hong Kong researchers say they can now detect autism in toddlers within a week

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a fecal test kit that can potentially detect autism in toddlers with 94% a...

Go legend defeated by AI warns of the tech’s harmful impacts

Lee Se-dol, renowned for his 18 world championships in the strategic board game Go, voiced concerns about the negative impacts of artificial...

Young Jackie Chan created with help of AI for new film splits fans

Chinese netizens are baffled over the apparent de-aging of Jackie Chan in his new film “A Legend.” The 70-year-old action star a...

Study finds anti-Asian racial bias in AI grading

A new study by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has raised concerns about potential racial bias in AI essay grading systems. In the stu...

Interview: ‘Atlas’ star Simu Liu reflects on AI technology and his ‘terrifying’ turn as a robot villain

After most famously playing a Marvel superhero and a Ken doll, actor Simu Liu now takes on the role of an AI robot in Netflix’s latest sci-f...

This Chinese woman has fallen for an AI chatbot and the internet is all for it

A Chinese woman living in California has fallen in love with Do Anything Now (DAN), a jailbroken mode of ChatGPT, showcasing their steamy an...

Filipina developer creates AI app to fight language extinction in the Philippines

A Filipina developer is promoting language appreciation and fighting language extinction with an artificial intelligence (AI) platform calle...

Japanese companies tap AI start-up to translate 50,000 manga into English

Japanese companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the translation of Japanese manga into English, aiming for...

Seventeen releases first compilation album, drops ‘Maestro’ MV

K-pop group Seventeen released their first compilation album, filled with their greatest hits, and a new music video for its single on the s...

Watch: Viral video showcases ease of becoming someone else via AI technology

A viral video on Chinese social media showcases the power of AI-driven deepfake technology, demonstrating how easily individuals can be tran...

Top Vietnamese tech firm partners with Nvidia to open $200M AI factory

FPT, Vietnam’s top tech firm, has partnered with Nvidia to open a $200 million artificial intelligence (AI) factory, aiming to help realize ...

‘Atlas’ trailer: Jennifer Lopez, Simu Liu star in Netflix sci-fi thriller

Jennifer Lopez is forced to abandon her mistrust and ally herself with robots run by artificial intelligence (AI) in the trailer for Netflix...

Korean woman loses $50,000 after falling for fake Elon Musk

A Korean fan of Elon Musk was duped into transferring thousands of dollars to a scammer who pretended to be the billionaire using artificial...

OpenAI arrives in Asia with inaugural Tokyo office

OpenAI has opened an office in Japan, marking a significant step in its global expansion efforts. Key points: ...

Meta’s AI finally imagines an Asian man and a white woman together

After drawing criticism over the past week, Meta’s AI image generation tool is finally able to spawn images of an Asian man and a white woma...

Meta’s AI image generator can’t put an Asian man and a white woman together

Significant limitations in Meta’s AI-powered image generator have been exposed, particularly in its inability to produce images of an ...

Big Ocean, first hearing-impaired K-pop group, set for debut

South Korea is set to unveil its first-ever hearing-impaired K-pop group, Big Ocean, this month. Key points: ...

AI beats humans in creative potential, study finds

A study has found that artificial intelligence — specifically ChatGPT-4 — surpasses humans in creative tasks, challenging the long-held noti...

Nvidia creates $9-an-hour AI ‘agents’ that outperform human nurses

Tech firm Nvidia has collaborated with Hippocratic AI to develop generative AI “agents” for healthcare that purportedly outperform human nur...

Watch: Robot dog plays with real dog in India

A video showing a robot dog created by an Indian tech company interacting with real dogs at a tech festival in India has gone viral on Insta...

Grieving Chinese families are paying to ‘resurrect’ dead loved ones using AI

Grieving families in China are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI) firms, seeking to create digital replicas of deceased lo...

Watch: China’s state TV debuts its first AI-generated cartoon series

China’s state TV recently debuted the country’s first animation series made with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Key points: ...

Chinese vlogger sparks outrage for using AI to ‘resurrect’ Coco Lee, Godfrey Gao

A Chinese vlogger has sparked outrage among Chinese social media users by posting videos featuring the late Chinese American singer Coco Lee...

This 16-year-old is building AI apps that could revolutionize healthcare

A 16-year-old high school student from Palo Alto, California, has gained widespread recognition for utilizing AI to build applications that ...

Taiwanese musician taps AI to bring back late daughter for her mom’s birthday

A Taiwanese musician harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) to digitally recreate his deceased daughter to deliver a message for her mother&...

Chinese engineer charged with stealing Google’s AI trade secrets

A former Google software engineer has been charged with stealing the tech giant’s trade secrets to benefit two China-based companies seeking...

Ukrainian woman gets deepfaked to find Chinese husbands, sell Russian goods

A Ukrainian YouTuber is exposing the horrors of deepfakes on Chinese social media after learning that her image has been extensively cloned ...

Uber Eats’ little green robots begin delivering food in Tokyo

Uber Eats Japan deployed its little green robot delivery service in Tokyo on Wednesday, making Japan the second country to receive the deliv...

China developing its own version of OpenAI’s text-to-video model

A group of researchers and artificial intelligence (AI) experts are collaborating to develop China’s response to Sora, OpenAI’s highly antic...

Google CEO slams AI diversity errors as ‘completely unacceptable’

In a leaked memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said recent errors made by the company’s Gemini image generator, which some critics alleged...

Mark Zuckerberg discusses AI risks with Japan PM Fumio Kishida

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed artificial intelligence (AI) with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday during a stop on his o...

How Japan is using AI to address population decline and boost marriage numbers

Japan is turning to artificial intelligence (AI) in a nationwide effort to reverse the trend of dwindling marriage numbers and bolster its p...