Artificial Intelligence

The European Parliament today approved the AI Act, the first ever regulatory framework governing the use of AI systems. The legislation passed with an overwhelming majority of 523 votes in favour, 46 against and 49 abstentions. “This is a historic day,” said Italian lawmaker Brando Benifei, co-lead on the AI Act. “We have the first... Read more » The post EU approves controversial AI Act to mixed reactions appeared first on AI News.

OpenAI has hit back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit, deeming his claims “convoluted — often incoherent — factual premises.” Musk’s lawsuit accuses OpenAI of breaching its non-profit status and reneging on a founding agreement to keep the organisation non-profit and release its AI technology publicly. However, OpenAI has refuted these allegations, stating that there is no... Read more » The post OpenAI calls Elon Musk’s lawsuit claims ‘incoherent’ appeared first on AI News.

OpenAI has announced a refreshed board of directors and new governance structure following recent turmoil that saw CEO Sam Altman ousted, briefly recruited by Microsoft, and then quickly reinstated at the AI research company. In a statement, OpenAI said Altman will rejoin the board alongside three new independent directors: Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the... Read more » The post OpenAI announces new board lineup and governance structure appeared first on AI News.

Hugging Face, the startup behind the popular open source machine learning codebase and ChatGPT rival Hugging Chat, is venturing into new territory with the launch of an open robotics project. The ambitious expansion was announced by former Tesla staff scientist Remi Cadene in a post on X: In keeping with Hugging Face’s ethos of open... Read more » The post Hugging Face is launching an open robotics project appeared first on AI News.

The theme for this year’s International Women’s day, Count Her In: Invest in Women. Accelerate Progress establishes a poignant tone for fostering authentic change. It perfectly mirrors the dynamic landscape of today’s data-driven environment where change is the only constant. The last third-party cookie has finally crumbled, privacy laws are tightening and now, Generative AI... Read more » The post International Women’s Day: What it takes to innovate in the age of Gen AI  appeared first on AI News.

A former Google engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets related to the company’s AI technology and secretly working with two Chinese firms. Linwei Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national, was arrested on Wednesday in Newark, California, and faces four counts of federal trade secret theft, each punishable by up to 10 years in prison.... Read more » The post Google engineer stole AI tech for Chinese firms appeared first on AI News.

If a week is traditionally a long time in politics, it is a yawning chasm when it comes to AI. The pace of innovation from the leading providers is one thing; the ferocity of innovation as competition hots up is quite another. But are the ethical implications of AI technology being left behind by this... Read more » The post Pace of innovation in AI is fierce – but is ethics able to keep up? appeared first on AI News.

Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, allegedly wanted the AI research company OpenAI to either merge with Tesla or give him full control of the organisation. A blog post from OpenAI, in response to a lawsuit filed by Musk against the company, revealed email communications from 2015 to 2018 when Musk was... Read more » The post OpenAI: Musk wanted us to merge with Tesla or take ‘full control’ appeared first on AI News.

Anthropic’s latest cutting-edge language model, Claude 3, has surged ahead of competitors like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini to set new industry standards in performance and capability. According to Anthropic, Claude 3 has not only surpassed its predecessors but has also achieved “near-human” proficiency in various tasks. The company attributes this success to rigorous testing and... Read more » The post Anthropic’s latest AI model beats rivals and achieves industry first appeared first on AI News.

In an advisory issued by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) last Friday, it was declared that any AI technology still in development must acquire explicit government permission before being released to the public. Developers will also only be able to deploy these technologies after labelling the potential fallibility or unreliability of the... Read more » The post AIs in India will need government permission before launching appeared first on AI News.