The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Government and private sector researchers worry U.S. adversaries could use the models, which mine vast amounts of text and images to summarize information and generate content, to wage aggressive cyber attacks or even create potent biological weapons. Deepfakes - realistic yet fabricated videos created by AI algorithms trained on copious online footage - are surfacing on social media, blurring fact and fiction in the polarized world of U.S. politics...

OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a search product to potentially compete with Alphabet's Google and with Perplexity, a well-funded AI search startup. The announcement could be timed a day before the Tuesday start of Google's annual I/O conference, where the tech giant is expected to unveil a slew of AI-related products...

Google stock, Meta and Microsoft are vying for investor dollars as each promotes a different path to generative AI. "Will they be able to sell (generative AI) software to businesses and consumers well enough to cover what they're paying for all the infrastructure — and make some money for investors on the other end?" said Jeremy C. Owens, tech editor at MarketWatch, on Investor's Business Daily's "Investing with IBD" podcast. Owens says each of these companies has laid out a distinctive approach to generative AI: Microsoft hopes to rise on pitching AI to its enterprise clients...