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The United States and United Kingdom have declined to sign an international declaration on AI safety at the Paris AI Action Summit, while the European Union has withdrawn its planned AI liability directive. These developments signal a significant shift in the global approach to AI regulation. At the Paris summit, US Vice President JD Vance …
Thomson Reuters has won a significant copyright lawsuit against legal AI startup Ross Intelligence. The ruling, reported by Kate Knibbs in WIRED, found that Ross Intelligence infringed on Thomson Reuters’ copyright by using content from its Westlaw legal research platform. US Circuit Court Judge Stephanos Bibas rejected all of Ross’s fair use defenses, particularly emphasizing …
OpenAI has announced significant changes to its product lineup, acknowledging customer confusion over its multiple AI models and features. CEO Sam Altman revealed plans to streamline the company’s offerings and integrate various technologies into a unified system. Current Challenges and Planned Changes The company currently offers multiple models and subscription tiers, including GPT-4o, o1, o3, …
Christie’s auction house has announced its first dedicated AI art exhibition, sparking significant controversy in the art community. As reported by Kyle Wiggers, the “Augmented Intelligence” show will open on February 20 at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries in New York. The exhibition features works from artists including Mat Dryhurst and showcases a live-painting robot. Critics …
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 …