Tech companies are quietly paying for content locked behind paywalls and login screens, giving rise to a hidden trade in everything from chat logs to long forgotten personal photos from faded social media apps
After more than a decade of leaving Big Tech largely to itself, US antitrust enforcers have cranked up the heat, with several high-profile cases underway that could radically change the way the industry's giants do business.Launched under both the Trump and Biden administrations, five major cases from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are moving forward against major US technology companies -- including two against Google that could see the company split...
In late 2021, OpenAI faced a supply problem. The artificial intelligence lab had exhausted every reservoir of reputable English-language text on the internet as it developed its latest AI system. It needed more data to train the next version of its technology -- lots more. So OpenAI researchers created a speech recognition tool called Whisper. It could transcribe the audio from YouTube videos, yielding new conversational text that would make an AI system smarter. Some OpenAI employees discussed...
The UK’s competition regulator has warned that a small number of powerful tech firms have the potential to use their size to dominate the AI market. Speaking at a conference in Washington DC, Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), noted the growing presence in the AI foundation model market of […]
Microsoft is ramping up its AI efforts with a new London research and development office. The company's AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, promises to attract "exceptional individuals" with upcoming job postings. Regrettably, the top executive did not reveal how many jobs will be created.This London hub announcement follows Microsoft's recent formation of Microsoft AI, a dedicated organisation focusing on consumer AI advancement, including products like Copilot. The hub will focus on developing...
Researchers at Microsoft have revealed a new artificial tool that can create deeply realistic human avatars -- but offered no timetable to make it available to the public, citing concerns about facilitating deep fake content.The AI model known as VASA-1, for visual affective skills, can create an animated video of a person talking, with synchronized lip movements, using just a single image and a speech audio clip. Disinformation researchers fear rampant misuse of AI-powered applications to...
CMA points to "interconnected web" involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon.
Backed by state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Italy is committing €1bn to AI development over the course of the next five years. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni first announced the plan for a dedicated AI fund last month. “The purpose of this mechanism is clearly to act as a multiplier and serve to attract further investment,” Meloni said in a video message. CDP’s venture capital arm will provide the capital, divided into three areas. Some €580mn will be invested in startups, while...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania recently analyzed 100 non-federal acute care hospitals (those with an emergency room) across the country and found that a whopping 96 percent transmitted user information to third parties. If that weren't bad enough, the team was only able to find publicly accessible privacy policiesRead Entire Article
During a Meta event, Nick Clegg also revealed that Llama 3, Meta's newest large language model (LLM), will be released within a month.
In the NBA’s Western Conference Play-In Tournament game on Tuesday, April 16, the Golden State Warriors lost to the Sacramento Kings by a score of 118-94 in what many people believe will be the final game played by the trio of Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green. For a decade or so, the Warriors […]
AI stocks extend well beyond Nvidia. Data software players like MongoDB,