Why the world's militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink The reliable internet connections provided by Starlink offer a huge advantage on the battlefield. Starlink's satellite constellation provides a reliable internet connection to almost anywhere on Earth, conferring an advantage on the modern battlefield. But it is also run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, presenting a risk to militaries that could easily find themselves cut off. So, now countries are racing to build their own version. The Starlink network consists of almost 10,000 satellites that offer internet connections across most of the planet via small dishes on the ground.

If you've performed a Google search lately, you've undoubtedly come across an AI Overview in your search results. This tool, powered by Google's Gemini, tries to save you some clicks by aggregating information from the links populated in your search results and succinctly delivering what it believes to be the information you're looking for. The accuracy of these overviews, however, often leaves a lot to be desired, and the tool has been plagued with hallucinations since its launch (with varying degrees of hilarity). Now Google is bringing the tool to YouTube, testing a video version of AI overviews for a small number of YouTube Premium members in the US across limited English search queries. While Google search results show LLM-generated text summaries, YouTube's AI overviews will function as something of a highlight reel for certain videos.

OnePlus is the latest company to hop on the AI train. The phone manufacturer is rolling out a new photo editing tool called AI Eraser, which lets users remove extraneous objects from their photos. The new feature will be available on a range of OnePlus smartphones, including the OnePlus 12 and 12R, OnePlus 11 and OnePlus Open. To use the OnePlus AI Eraser, a person first has to highlight the parts of the image that need removing. These could be random people or a dirty trash can, but they can also be "imperfections" in the photo.

OpenAI's ChatGPT became a phenomenon thanks to its wide-ranging abilities, such as drafting college essays, writing working computer programs, and digging up information from across the web. Now the company aims to further widen the range of tricks up ChatGPT's sleeve by making it possible for anyone to build a custom chatbot powered by the technology--without any coding skills. OpenAI suggests people might want to build custom bots to help with specific problems or interests in their life, such as helping someone learn the rules of a board game, teach their kids math, or help design stickers using AI-generated art. To create one of these custom bots or AI agents, which OpenAI calls "GPTs," a user need only specify, by talking with ChatGPT, what they would like the bot to do. Behind the scenes, ChatGPT will write the code needed to create and run the new bot. The bots can plug into other sites and services to do things like access databases, search emails, and automate ecommerce orders, OpenAI says.

Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review's request for comment on how they might respond. Zhao's team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to "mask" their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. The team intends to integrate Nightshade into Glaze, and artists can choose whether they want to use the data-poisoning tool or not. The team is also making Nightshade open source, which would allow others to tinker with it and make their own versions.

The company, known for its video conferencing product, debuted Zoom Docs on Tuesday at its annual conference dubbed Zoomtopia. The product will be equipped with Zoom's artificial intelligence assistant, AI Companion, and other AI capabilities that will help users draft, edit, summarize and change tones as well as include items from meeting discussions. It also could answer questions about the content in the document. The shared documents will be integrated into Zoom's platform so that users can work on a document from its meetings, chat, desktop and mobile apps. The product will be generally available in the spring of 2024, and Zoom said it is still determining pricing.

The CIA is set to launch its own ChatGPT-style AI tool to help sift through mountains of data for clues in ongoing investigations. Intended to mirror the famed OpenAI tech, the Central Intelligence Agency's latest initiative will use artificial intelligence to help analysts better access open-source intelligence, agency officials said. The CIA's Open Source Enterprise division developed the tech, which is also intended to be rolled out across the US government's 18 intelligence agencies in an effort to rival China's growing intelligence capabilities. 'We've gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going,' said Randy Nixon, director of the CIA's AI division. Nixon noted that analyzing the level of data across the web is a significant challenge that the AI program would help handle, adding: 'We have to find the needles in the needle field.'

The popular Dall-E 2, created by OpenAI and named after painter Salvador Dali and Disney Pixar's WALL-E, shook the internet when it launched last July. In August, the start-up Stable Diffusion released its own version, essentially an anti-DALL-E with fewer restrictions on how it could be used. Research lab Midjourney debuted its own version during the summer, which created the picture that sparked a controversy in August when it won an art competition at the Colorado State Fair.

Sam Altman, OpenAI's boss said that there's a bug startling some ChatGPT users this week. The vulnerability has been reportedly showing the chat histories of other people. For others, it might spark some privacy concerns for users who want to use the AI chatbot in secrecy. When the AI-focused startup discovered that a new bug arose on ChatGPT on Tuesday, March 21, Altman immediately acknowledged the issue so the team could look for a quick remedy to patch it up. In a latest report by CNBC, Altman says that the vulnerability in the open-source library of ChatGPT is finally removed.

Elon Musk has indicated that he's interested in creating his own version of OpenAI's ChatGPT in order to rival the popular AI chatbot. A new report from The Information goes into detail about AI researchers being contacted by Musk's team to develop a new version of OpenAI's ChatGPT. According to the report, Musk's team has already reached out to several developers regarding the purported project, and one of those researchers was Igor Babuschkin, a former senior AI researcher at Google's Deepmind, who was contacted for the position of lead developer on Musk's vision for the AI. Details of Musk's new AI chatbot are scarce and hardly set in stone, but we can expect that it will be different from OpenAI's ChatGPT in certain aspects. Notably, Musk co-founded OpenAI back in 2015 but left the company in 2018.