Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge TikTok has launched many songs that have gone viral over the years‚ but now it’s testing a feature that lets more people exercise their songwriting skills… with some help from AI. AI Song generates songs from text prompts with help from the large language model Bloom. Users can write out lyrics on the text field when making a post. TikTok will then recommend AI Song to add sounds to the post‚ and they can toggle the song’s genre. The Verge reached out to TikTok for comment. The feature was first spotted last week. AI Song doesn’t seem to be available to everyone yet‚ but some TikTok users have already begun experimenting with it. The results so far are not great. Many are out of tune despite the availability of auto-tuning vocals. Take... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Arizona State University (ASU) and OpenAI announced a partnership to bring ChatGPT into ASU’s classrooms. In a press release‚ ASU stated that it wants to focus on “three key areas of concentration” where it can use ChatGPT Enterprise‚ like “enhancing student success‚ forging new avenues for innovative research‚ and streamlining organizational processes.” ASU deputy chief information officer Kyle Bowen told The Verge‚ “Our faculty and staff were already using ChatGPT‚ and after the launch of ChatGPT Enterprise‚ which for us addressed a lot of the security concerns we had‚ we believed it made sense to connect with OpenAI.” He added that ASU faculty members‚ some of whom have expertise in AI‚ will help guide the usage of generative AI on... Continue reading…

Mark Zuckerberg. Aside from Meta’s new focus on building artificial general intelligence‚ the biggest news inside the company this week is CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to move its AI research team‚ FAIR‚ to sit in its product organization. Going forward‚ Joelle Pineau‚ the VP who leads FAIR‚ and Yann LeCun‚ chief AI scientist‚ will report to Meta’s chief product officer‚ Chris Cox. They previously reported to CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth‚ who leads the Reality Labs division. “With this change‚ we elevate the importance of AI research as an essential ingredient to the long-term success of the company and our products‚” Cox wrote in an internal note to employees on Wednesday that I obtained. “Alongside the major infrastructure investments Mark mentioned... Continue reading…

We're only a day away from preorders going live for the Apple Vision Pro‚ and to give everyone a reason to buy the $3‚500 mixed reality headset‚ Apple has shared a look at an App Store classic that is coming to visionOS — and it's a great one. In a blog post on Apple's Developer website‚ the company shared a look at Super Fruit Ninja running on the Vision Pro. It looks like the game‚ which reached insane heights of popularity on the iPhone when they incorporated its multi-touch display that allowed people to swipe their finger in order to cut fruit‚ is taking things to the next level with the Vision Pro. Continue reading... The post App Store classic Fruit Ninja is coming to the Apple Vision Pro appeared first on BGR. Trending Right Now: Apple TV+ has 4 of the most popular shows on any streamer right now

A new study presents evidence showing that Homo sapiens (modern humans) arrived in China approximately 45‚000 years ago‚ or several thousand years earlier than previously suspected. Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsEvolution &; Human OriginsRead Later 

Defense attorney Alina Habba earned the ire of a federal judge for a second consecutive day in the civil defamation trial against her boss‚ former President Donald Trump.

Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March.The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108‚ with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative...

The House Oversight and Judiciary committees announced Thursday that Hunter Biden will appear for a closed-door deposition before the panels on Feb. 28. Oversight Chairman James Comer‚ R-Ky.‚ and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan‚ R-Ohio‚ made the joint announcement." ...

Mike Pompeo‚ secretary of state and CIA director in the Trump administration‚ said Thursday that President Joe Biden's soft stance with Iran has come back to "haunt" the U.S.

Turkey's first astronaut along with a Swede and Italian launched Thursday to the International Space Station on a chartered SpaceX flight. The Falcon rocket blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in late afternoon‚ carrying the three men‚ all with military pilot ...