Tech News New AI models more likely to guess than admit they don't know answers According to a new study, the more advanced an AI large language model (LLM) becomes, the less likely it is to admit it can't answer a query. 01/10/2024
Tech News California governor vetoes the US' first of its kind AI safety bill The bill, which would have been the first AI law in the US, would have required tech companies to test models and provided whistleblower protections to workers. 30/09/2024
Tech News OpenAI could switch to for-profit company giving Sam Altman a stake Chief technology officer Mira Murati is also the latest senior staffer to step down in a leadership shake-up 26/09/2024
Tech News OpenAI's safety committee becomes 'independent' oversight board The move follows increasing scrutiny over OpenAI's safety policies which Altman has directly influenced as one of the leaders of its committee. 17/09/2024
Tech News OpenAI releases o1, which it says solves harder problems OpenAI said o1 uses a chain of thought when attempting to solve a problem. 13/09/2024
Tech News iPhone 16 and AI: Everything you missed from Apple's 'Glowtime' event Apple unveiled its much-anticipated plans for AI. But it won’t be coming to Europe anytime soon. 10/09/2024
Tech News iPhone 16 and AI: What to expect from Apple’s 'Glowtime' event While it’s expected to be rolled out to users as early as October, don’t expect to see Apple intelligence in Europe anytime soon. 09/09/2024
Tech News 5 of the most damaging ways AI could harm us, according to MIT experts Euronews Next has selected five critical risks of artificial intelligence (AI) out of more than 700 compiled in a new database from MIT FutureTech. 01/09/2024
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