Tech News Mayoral candidate who wanted to govern with AI bot loses election The electorate is not ready for an AI bot making political decisions but a US librarian says a ‘revolution’ is sprouting. 22/08/2024
Tech News Elon Musk sues OpenAI for putting profits ahead of public good Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, renewing claims that the ChatGPT-maker put profits before 'the benefit of humanity'. 06/08/2024
Tech News Is basic income an answer to the threat of AI-fuelled job losses? Prominent figures working in AI are saying a basic income could be needed to weather massive job losses linked to the technology. 04/08/2024
Tech News OpenAI starts rolling out its ChatGPT voice mode to some Plus users OpenAI has recently released its advanced voice mode to a small number of ChatGPT Plus users. 31/07/2024
Tech News AI models may collapse due to rising AI-generated content, study finds A new study warns that AI models could collapse as they start increasingly relying on AI-generated content for training. 31/07/2024
Tech News China censors testing AI models so they conform to 'socialist values' The GenAI models must answer questions on sensitive political topics and President Xi Jinping. 18/07/2024
Business Microsoft faces UK competition investigation over AI start-up hires Microsoft faces UK competition investigation over hiring of AI startup's founder and key staff 16/07/2024
Business Microsoft drops OpenAI board observer seat amid regulator scrutiny Microsoft, ChatGPT’s most prominent financial supporter, announced it is withdrawing its observer seat on the OpenAI board as the collaboration received scrutiny from antitrust regulators. 11/07/2024
Tech News OpenAI and Microsoft accused of breaching US copyright law An American non-profit is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly breaching copyright law by using its material to train their AI models. 28/06/2024
Work Euroviews. Publishers are signing big-ticket deals with OpenAI, but at what cost? Let’s hope, for the good of the press and all the things that rely on it — civic life, democracy, and so on — that the media execs signing big deals with OpenAI are indeed making the right bet with Big Tech this time around, Jonah Prousky writes. 27/06/2024
Tech News OpenAI pauses the release of AI voice assistant over safety testing The advanced voice mode technology was first demoed in May but its launch has now been pushed back by a month. 26/06/2024
Tech News Anthropic launches new AI model, says it’s the ‘most powerful’ yet Generative AI companies are racing to get one step ahead of the other. 20/06/2024
Tech News OpenAI’s former chief scientist launches rival AI company The start-up is called Safe Superintelligence. 20/06/2024
Tech News Apolitical receives Google.org funding to train governments in AI “It has made me think of ethical issues; AI is not just a technological innovation but it is about the people, services, and data that sits behind it,” a British civil servant said. 19/06/2024
Tech News Leading AI chatbots are spewing Russian misinformation, study finds “This unvirtuous cycle means falsehoods are generated, repeated, and validated by AI platforms,” the study said. 18/06/2024
Tech News Microsoft pauses new controversial AI feature over security concerns The Recall feature is supposed to sort through your emails but it does so by making a screenshot of everything you do. 14/06/2024
Tech News Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman Elon Musk alleged that the ChatGPT maker had abandoned its original mission to create artificial intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humanity. 12/06/2024
Tech News Musk calls Apple ChatGPT integration 'unacceptable security violation' The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and social media platform X criticised Apple's announcement of a new partnership with OpenAI. 11/06/2024
Tech News US regulators to look into AI companies Microsoft, OpenAI, and Nvidia US antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI. 07/06/2024
Tech News Why do AI chatbots sometimes give false or misleading answers? We take a look at why artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots show false or misleading information to users. 31/05/2024