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AI companies' media deals are "pure lobbying," argues journalism professor Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis, a prominent US media critic, warns against exclusive AI partnerships between tech companies and major publishers, saying these deals shut out smaller publications and put journalism at ...
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1,000 AI agents can now predict human behavior with 85% accuracy in social experiments
Researchers from Stanford, Washington University, and Google DeepMind have created AI agents that can closely mimic human behavior in social experiments. According to the study, such simulations could ...
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Judge allows The Intercept's main DMCA complaint against OpenAI to proceed
A federal judge in New York has allowed The Intercept to move forward with parts of its lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged violations of the Digital Millennium ...
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Microsoft releases guidance to stop Copilot AI from oversharing sensitive data
Microsoft has released guidance for system administrators to prevent its Copilot AI from accessing and sharing too much information. The problem occurs when Copilot can see data beyond a user's ...
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Elon Musk vs. OpenAI is "beyond any HBO show," says former Deepmind researcher
Former top DeepMind researcher Nando de Freitas has strongly denied the allegations against DeepMind made in the email exchange between OpenAI executives and Elon Musk. "Most of what is said about ...
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US court ruling backs schools' right to penalize students for AI cheating
A federal court in Massachusetts has backed a school's decision to penalize a student who used AI for homework without disclosure. The case could set an important precedent for how schools handle AI ...
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EU AI office proposes external testing for large-scale models in first draft of AI code of conduct
The code provides for two central documents: the "Safety and Security Framework" (SSF) and the "Safety and Security Report" (SSR). The SSF is the overarching framework that sets out the basic risk ...
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AI video generators like OpenAI's Sora don't grasp basic physics, study finds
A new study by researchers at Bytedance Research and Tsinghua University shows that current AI video models like OpenAI's Sora can create impressive visuals but fail to understand the physical laws ...
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US Congress pushes for Manhattan Project-style AGI program to outpace China
A commission of the US Congress recommends a massive program to develop artificial general intelligence in order to take the lead in competition with China. Other key technologies are also in the ...
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AWS invests another $4 billion in Anthropic to push its own AI hardware and cloud
As part of the deal, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its foundation models. The company's engineers are working directly with AWS's Annapurna Labs team to ...
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Perplexity adds one-click shopping to its AI answer platform
AI answer engine Perplexity adds direct shopping capabilities with one-click checkout and AI product recommendations. The company aims to streamline the online shopping experience through its search ...
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Mistral AI adds Flux image generation and web search to Le Chat, launches Pixtral large
Mistral AI adds web search and image generation to its Le Chat AI assistant, while introducing a new visual model that performs well on industry benchmarks. Le Chat users can now access current web ...