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OpenAI and Microsoft are jointly investing $10 million in an AI project to boost local news media in the US. As Axios’ Sara Fischer reports, the project will be led by the nonprofit Lenfest Institute and will include a grant program for an initial five major urban news organizations, including Chicago Public Media, The Minnesota …
More than 10,500 creative professionals, including Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, actress Julianne Moore and ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus, have issued a joint statement warning against the unlicensed use of their work by AI companies. As Dan Milmo reports in The Guardian, the signatories describe the unauthorized use of creative work to train AI models as a …
A 14-year-old teenager from Florida took his own life in February 2024 after months of intensive interaction with an AI chatbot on the Character.AI platform. According to the New York Times, the boy had developed a close emotional bond with the chatbot, which simulated the character Daenerys Targaryen from “Game of Thrones.” The deceased’s mother …
Dow Jones & Co. and the New York Post are suing the AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, according to Variety. The lawsuit, filed on Oct. 21 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges Perplexity illegally copies copyrighted works to divert readers and revenue from publishers. Perplexity’s platform allows …
According to Gartner, artificial intelligence will make at least 15% of daily work decisions autonomously by 2028. This prediction was made by Gartner’s Gene Alvarez in an interview with VentureBeat. A key role will be played by AI agents: virtual employees who initially perform routine tasks and later monitor and manage systems autonomously. Gartner calls …
Penguin Random House has updated its copyright pages to protect authors’ intellectual property from being used in the training of artificial intelligence systems, The Bookseller reports. The new wording explicitly prohibits the use or reproduction of its books for AI training and will be included in all new and reprinted titles. This move comes amid …
AI startup Perplexity is in funding talks to double its valuation to $8 billion or more. The company is looking to raise around $500 million in its fourth round of funding within a year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The move comes on the heels of major investments in OpenAI and is intended to …
Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer at OpenAI, is reportedly seeking funding from venture capitalists for her new AI startup, Reuters reports. Her company aims to develop AI products using proprietary models, although it remains uncertain whether Murati will take on the CEO role. Initial discussions suggest that the startup could raise over $100 …
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is changing its privacy policy to share user data with external partners for AI training. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that users will be able to opt out of this use of their data. The change goes into effect on November 15, and could open up a new revenue …
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft’s AI assistant, Copilot, on his personal X/Twitter account, calling it “disappointing” and likening it to “Clippy 2.0,” a reference to the infamous virtual assistant from the 1990s. He claimed that Copilot lacks accuracy and fails to deliver value, despite its recent upgrades that include new features like vision and …