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Microsoft is offering authors $5,000 per book to license their works for AI training through publisher HarperCollins, according to a detailed report by Alice Robb in Bloomberg. Authors would receive half of the licensing fee, amounting to $2,500 before agent commissions. The deal gives Microsoft permission to train its AI models on selected books from …
French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled plans for €109 billion ($113 billion) in artificial intelligence investments, with a significant portion dedicated to creating large-scale AI computing facilities powered by the country’s nuclear energy infrastructure. The announcement comes as France aims to establish itself as a major player in the global AI computing landscape, competing with …
A group of investors led by Elon Musk has made an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire control of the nonprofit organization behind OpenAI. According to Jessica Toonkel and Berber Jin of The Wall Street Journal, the bid challenges Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI into a for-profit company. Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Altman …
A group of 20 European research institutions and companies has announced OpenEuroLLM, a collaborative project to develop open-source multilingual language models. The initiative, coordinated by Charles University’s Jan Hajič and AMD Silo AI’s Peter Sarlin, will create AI models specifically designed for European commercial and public services. The project aims to strengthen Europe’s AI capabilities …
Google DeepMind has developed an AI system that surpasses the average performance of gold medalists in solving geometry problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). As reported by Kyle Wiggers, the new system called AlphaGeometry2 successfully solved 84% of geometry problems from the past 25 years of IMO competitions. The AI combines a Gemini language …
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), an AI startup focused on developing safe artificial general intelligence, is reportedly in discussions to raise funding at a $20 billion valuation. According to Reuters reporters Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu, and Anna Tong, this would represent a fourfold increase from the company’s $5 billion valuation last September. SSI was founded by former …
John Schulman, OpenAI cofounder and AI alignment expert, has joined a new startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. According to Fortune’s Sharon Goldman, Schulman made this move after spending just five months at Anthropic. The yet-unnamed startup has already secured several high-profile hires from leading AI companies, including OpenAI’s former head of special …
Google is implementing SynthID watermarks for photos modified with its Magic Editor AI feature. The system, developed by Google’s DeepMind team, embeds digital metadata tags to identify AI-altered images. According to Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge, the feature will roll out this week. While the watermark is invisible to the naked eye, it can …
Security researchers at NowSecure have identified multiple severe security and privacy vulnerabilities in the DeepSeek iOS mobile application, which has been among the top downloaded apps since January 2025. The investigation revealed that the app transmits unencrypted user data, employs weak encryption methods with hardcoded keys, and sends sensitive information to servers connected to Chinese …
European artificial intelligence startups raised €8 billion in venture capital funding during 2024, accounting for 20% of all VC investments in the region. According to a report published by Galion.exe, Revaia, and Chausson Partners, as reported by Romain Dillet for TechCrunch, the UK leads European AI investments, followed by France and Germany. The majority of …