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UK opens antitrust investigation into Amazon over its ties to AI startup Anthropic
UK opens antitrust investigation into Amazon over its ties to AI startup Anthropic. This comes after the retail giant invested $4 billion.
People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than the company can sell them
Everyone’s returning their Humane AI pins and nobody is buying any. This is according to leaked internal sales documents.
Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits
Reddit just wrapped up its second earnings call as a public company and CEO Steve Huffman hinted at some significant changes that could be coming to the platform. 3
NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
In the latest example of a troubling pattern in the tech industry, Nvidia appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. The $2.4 trillion company reportedly asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to develop commercial AI projects.
NVIDIA’s Blackwell AI chips have reportedly hit a snag and may arrive months late
NVIDIA has discovered 'design flaws' in its upcoming series of AI chips that may push their release back at least three months, The Information reports. The company has reportedly started notifying customers of the delay, including Microsoft.
Google will no longer air an Olympics ad that showed a child using AI to write a fan letter
The backlash reflects the broader debates around the role of AI in creative processes and its potential impact on the quality of human expression.
AI startup argues scraping every song on the internet is 'fair use'
Udio and Suno were sued in June, with major labels claiming they trained AI models by scraping copyrighted music from the Internet. In a court filing today, Suno acknowledged doing just that.
Google will let you search your Chrome browsing history by asking questions like a human
Google said that it won't directly use your browsing history or tabs to train its large language models, and the feature also doesn't work with pages you browsed in Incognito mode.
US Copyright Office calls for better legal protections against AI-generated deepfakes
The US Copyright Office has published a report recommending new and improved protections against digital replicas.
Reddit CEO wants Microsoft to pay for its content
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Microsoft won't even negotiate a deal with them to use their data for its AI searches.
Senators introduce bill to protect individuals against AI-generated deepfakes
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that would make it illegal to create digital recreations of a person's voice or likeness without consent.
OpenAI rolls out advanced Voice Mode and no, it won't sound like ScarJo
OpenAI is bringing the alpha version of its advanced Voice Mode to a limited number of ChatGPT Plus users today.
What to read this weekend: Keanu Reeves wrote a book with ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville
New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.
Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards
Apple has joined more than a dozen other tech companies in signing up for the Biden administration's voluntary AI code of practice.
X's Grok chatbot is misleading voters about the presidential election
Grok's AI chatbot claims that President Biden's name must stay on the ballot in nine states, a claim that is categorically false.
Video game performers will strike over AI concerns
SAG-AFTRA has called for a strike against ten video game publishers. The union has been negotiating with the group about use of AI.