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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 …
Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has recruited three senior researchers from Google DeepMind, according to a Financial Times report by Melissa Heikkilä. Marco Tagliasacchi and Zalán Borsos, who developed DeepMind’s podcast-generating “Audio Overviews” feature, will join Microsoft’s new AI lab in Zurich. The third hire, Matthias Minderer, will focus on AI vision capabilities. The researchers …
Google has revised its AI ethics guidelines, eliminating previous restrictions on using AI for weapons and surveillance applications. According to reporting by Nitasha Tiku and Gerrit De Vynck in The Washington Post, the company removed the “Applications we will not pursue” section that had been in place since 2018. Google’s AI chief Demis Hassabis and …
The European Union has implemented its first compliance deadline for the AI Act, allowing regulators to ban AI systems that pose unacceptable risks to individuals. As reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch, the regulations that took effect on February 2 establish four risk categories for AI applications, with the highest risk category facing complete prohibition. …
OpenAI is in early discussions to raise up to $40 billion in a funding round that could value the company at $300 billion, with SoftBank leading the investment. According to reporting by Berber Jin and Deepa Seetharaman in The Wall Street Journal, SoftBank is considering an investment of $15-25 billion. Part of the funding would …
OpenAI has formed a partnership with U.S. National Laboratories to apply its AI models to scientific research and nuclear security initiatives. According to Hayden Field at CNBC, the collaboration will give up to 15,000 scientists access to OpenAI’s o1 series models. The partnership aims to enhance power grid cybersecurity, advance disease treatment research, and deepen …
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued new guidelines confirming that AI-generated content can receive copyright protection when humans make substantial contributions or modifications. This clarification came in a document titled “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability,” as reported by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. The guidelines outline three scenarios where AI-generated material qualifies for copyright …