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OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT service is set to reach 700 million weekly active users this week, up from 500 million in March. According to an article by MacKenzie Sigalos for CNBC, this represents a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth. The company also stated that daily user messages have surpassed three billion. In …
Google has started negotiations with news publishers to pay for content used in its artificial intelligence products. Julia Love and Hannah Miller of Bloomberg report that this move follows competitors like OpenAI and Perplexity AI, who already have such licensing deals in place. According to the report, Google plans to launch a pilot program with …
Meta Platforms Inc. has purchased PlayAI, a startup specializing in artificial intelligence for voice generation. According to an article by Kurt Wagner for Bloomberg, the acquisition is part of Meta’s major investment in AI. The entire PlayAI team will join Meta to advance its work on voice technology. The company stated in an internal memo …
YouTube has updated its Partner Program policies on July 15 to better address “mass-produced” and “repetitive” videos. According to a TechCrunch article by Sarah Perez, the changes aim to clarify what the platform considers “inauthentic” content. The update is a response to the growing amount of low-quality media created with generative AI, often called “AI …
The European Commission has rejected calls from a coalition of major European companies to delay the implementation of its landmark AI Act. A commission spokesperson confirmed that the rules will be rolled out according to the established legal timeline, with no pause or grace period. The statement followed a letter from over 45 organizations, including …
Apple Inc. is in talks with Anthropic and OpenAI to potentially use their artificial intelligence technology for a future version of its voice assistant, Siri. This represents a major strategic shift for the company, which has historically relied on developing its own technology in-house. According to a report by Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, the move …
Denmark plans to become the first European country to give citizens copyright protection over their physical appearance and voice. The Danish government announced it will amend copyright law to combat AI-generated deepfakes, according to Miranda Bryant reporting for The Guardian. Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said the legislation sends an “unequivocal message” that everyone has rights …
Two federal judges ruled in favor of AI companies this week in closely watched copyright lawsuits over training data usage. Meta Platforms escaped a lawsuit from authors including Sarah Silverman and Andrew Sean Greer who claimed the company used millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Llama AI model. San Francisco Judge Vince …
A federal judge has delivered a landmark ruling in the ongoing legal battle between authors and AI companies over copyright infringement. Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California found that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models constitutes fair use under copyright law. The case began when authors Andrea …
The Wikimedia Foundation has paused its trial of AI-generated article summaries following fierce opposition from Wikipedia editors. The experiment would have shown machine-generated summaries at the top of articles on mobile devices for two weeks. Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 Media that editors called the plan a “very bad idea” and warned it would cause …