Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the UN's global advocate for human-centric digital governance, has spoken out about the growing impact of artificial intelligence. He urges the public to consult experts and read works on AI safety and policy.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents arrested an executive from a Canadian cybersecurity firm on Thursday in Pennsylvania, as part of an ongoing investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. This group is reportedly responsible for a recent data breach…
Approximately 150 journalists, researchers, and technologists convened at The New York Times Building late last month for a forum focused on the evolving role of artificial intelligence in investigative journalism.
Internal documents from OpenAI and Microsoft, made public on September 17 as part of The New York Times' lawsuit, indicate that executives at both companies were aware of the controversial nature of using copyrighted content to train large language models.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang articulated a stark perspective on the intersection of artificial intelligence and climate change, suggesting that significant technological advancement in AI, capable of addressing the climate crisis, will necessitate a period of "enormous pain and suffering."
Google is preparing to launch a satellite equipped with its advanced artificial intelligence processors into space next week, a move that has been detailed by The New York Times. This mission is a pivotal element of Google's ambitious experimental initiative…
Unsealed court documents from The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal acknowledgments that the companies' data scraping practices could initiate a "doom loop" detrimental to the internet.
Newly unsealed court documents have revealed internal concerns from a Microsoft executive regarding the training of artificial intelligence models on copyrighted human-created content. In a legal brief unsealed this week, Brent Hecht, Microsoft's Director of Applied Science, described OpenAI's practice…
Internal communications from Microsoft and OpenAI executives, unredacted in a court filing for the New York Times v. OpenAI/Microsoft case, reveal significant concerns about the ethical and legal implications of training large language models (LLMs) on vast amounts of internet…
Internal documents unsealed on Thursday in a lawsuit brought by news organizations, including The New York Times, reveal that a Microsoft executive described the practice of scraping news content for AI training as "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions"…
Newly unsealed court filings have revealed that Microsoft executives privately described the practice of artificial intelligence companies scraping data as "the largest theft of labor in human history." These filings emerged in the context of ongoing legal disputes involving…
OpenAI staff were aware of the "existential threat" that generative artificial intelligence posed to the publishing industry, according to a report by The New York Times. The report cites internal communications and legal filings that suggest employees understood the potential…
The Trump administration has intensified its efforts to embed artificial intelligence (AI) into the fabric of medical care across the United States. This initiative, reported by The New York Times, signifies a federal commitment to leveraging AI technologies to improve…
A poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena University, with data released on Tuesday, indicates that a significant majority of likely voters express opposition to the construction of data centers necessary for powering artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
Greg Jensen, managing chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates and an early investor in OpenAI and Anthropic, has articulated significant concerns regarding the trajectory of artificial intelligence, encompassing both its economic implications and existential risks.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have initiated legal action against OpenAI and its primary investor, Microsoft, asserting claims of copyright infringement. These two prominent news organizations allege that their journalistic content was utilized as training data for OpenAI's artificial intelligence…
The Seattle Times and Newsday have become the latest prominent news organizations to file lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the technology giants of unlawfully using their copyrighted journalistic content to train artificial intelligence models.
Microsoft stated in new legal filings that its Copilot AI chatbot "virtually nobody" was grabbing full sentences or substantive chunks from news articles and books, a claim made as the company defends itself against copyright infringement lawsuits filed by publishers…
The Trump administration has publicly supported OpenAI in its ongoing copyright lawsuit with The New York Times, filing a statement of interest (SOI) with the Manhattan judge overseeing the case.
The Trump administration has filed a legal brief supporting OpenAI in its ongoing copyright dispute with The New York Times. This intervention by the former presidential administration urges a federal court to reject The New York Times' claim that it…