The latest around generative AI as a whole. Stay up-to-date about current discussions and trends, new findings, and more.
A federal judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose books were obtained from pirate websites. The deal resolves a major copyright class action over material connected to the training of Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The settlement is the largest known recovery in a US …
Microsoft is making a multibillion-dollar commitment to expand Mistral’s AI computing infrastructure in Europe, as the two companies broaden their partnership for enterprises and regulated industries. The agreement gives Microsoft additional European capacity for its cloud and AI services. It also gives customers more ways to use Mistral’s models while keeping workloads, data and operations …
Elon Musk has reportedly acquired APR Energy, a supplier of mobile gas and diesel power equipment, as his AI company xAI seeks fast ways to supply electricity to its expanding data center operations. Fred Lambert reports for Electrek that the transaction surfaced in a Federal Trade Commission early termination notice, rather than through a public …
New York has become the first state to halt new data center construction, and the tech industry worries it will not be the last. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing permits for hyperscale data centers larger than 50 megawatts, giving regulators up to a year to draft rules on energy prices …
Meta has shut down an AI image feature that let users manipulate photos of people by simply tagging their public Instagram account, just days after launching it. Corbin Bolies reports for Variety that the company faced immediate backlash over the tool’s design. The feature was part of Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced on Tuesday. …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …
Google will soon let users see whether an ad was created or edited with artificial intelligence. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature expands to all ads on Search, YouTube and Discover, not just political ones. Businesses increasingly use AI to generate product images, place items in different settings, and cut costs on traditional …
Amazon is developing a new Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, designed to let its voice assistant complete several tasks from a single request. Eugene Kim reports for Business Insider that internal planning documents describe the project as enabling “multi-request” engagements, such as booking a ride and texting a friend in one interaction. Moonraker builds on Alexa+, …
Midjourney is pushing to expose how Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. use artificial intelligence internally, as the AI image generator fights a major copyright lawsuit filed by the studios. Gene Maddaus reports for Variety. The studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has responded with a fair use defense, …
Microsoft is launching a new business unit called Microsoft Frontier Company, backing it with $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers who will work directly inside client organizations. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, writes on the Official Microsoft Blog that the initiative goes beyond so-called forward-deployed engineering, aiming to be the largest outcome-driven engineering organization …