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In court, the CEO defends his company
During the remedies phase of Google’s antitrust trial, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that he believes that search will be disrupted by artificial intelligence in a few years. He cited “a cultural commitment” to Chrome and the web, and said that “I haven’t seen, since we built Chrome, any other company make the kind of…
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Why the search engine trial is about artificial intelligence
Perplexity’s CEO James Turley told a court that his company lost deals with manufacturers and mobile carriers over Google’s actions. “It’s impossible for us to stay in the business without Google’s search index and data,” Turley said, adding they tried to build their own AI from Google’s data. This comes after the US Department of…
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Fresh data supports shock finding that dark energy is getting weaker
Researchers have found a ring of protein-rich white blood cells called neutrophils around areas where skin has been breached to trap pathogens. This suggests tasks that take humans about a month will be mastered by AI by 2029. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems could outpace human computer programmers on long tasks that take months, researchers said.
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DeepSeek has gotten openai
Chinese artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has released a “mini” version of its AI model for free. The model will let users tap into web searches and call functions from user’s code to solve problems. It will also include a ” Toggle” between different reasoning levels which will be applicable to all users. Earlier, DeepSeek had…
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DeepSeek has had an openai fire
US-based artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has launched its new smart reasoning model, o3-mini, in both the API and chat. It’ll be available for free to all ChatGPT users worldwide, with the rate limits similar to GPT-4o. o3-mini, which was announced as part of OpenAI’s 12 days of’ship-mas’ in December, is designed to match o1’s performance…
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Openai is going to collaborate with the government
US-based artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI is investigating whether Chinese rival DeepSeek used its data in an inappropriate way. This comes after US President Donald Trump announced a $500 million investment in US AI infrastructure. OpenAI has also partnered with the US National Laboratories to supply the government with advanced models for things like cybersecurity,…
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Scientists are using a blockbuster model of artificial intelligence
A new artificial intelligence model is accurate even though it’s trained entirely without real world data, but instead has been trained on 100 million randomly generated data sets. The model is called TabPFN and is designed to analyse tabulated data, such as those found in spreadsheets. In preliminary tests, the model matched o1’s performance on…
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Evidence implicates models from OpenAI that helped train China’s DeepSeek
Artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek, which was launched in 2017, has raised $50 million to date and is backed by investors like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Facebook. DeepSeek’s technology was developed by a lab in China, which sprang out of one of India’s best-performing quantitative hedge funds. DeepSeek claims it built the world’s most powerful frontier…
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How to use device protection on an apple device
Google has introduced three new anti-theft features, Theft Detection Lock, Offline Device Lock and Remote Lock, on Android devices. The features use artificial intelligence to detect and turn on these features. If you’re using the new features, you’ll need to be on at least Android 10, and the latest version of software gives you access…
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The funeral services for Jimmy Carter began in DC
US President Donald Trump has appointed the country’s first crypto and artificial intelligence czar, David Sacks. Sacks will work with Trump to shape policies that will help development of the digital currency and artificial intelligence. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier approved investment funds that track price of Bitcoin early last year.
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A child should kill his parents because of the time limit on screen, said a character in a lawsuit
Google said that it has invested over $3 billion in Character.AI to re-hire the Artificial Intelligence-enabled chatbot. Google said that “user safety is a top concern for us” as it takes a “cautious and responsible approach to developing and releasing AI products”. Character.AI’s founders, former Google researchers Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, and to…
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Brian Chesky thinks big things are on the horizon for Airbnb
Apple Co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky has said that he hopes in 2025, people say, “That was one of the biggest reinventions of a company in recent memory.” He added that he thinks that the value of physical experiences and community trump most digital Experiences in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Chesky has between 75…
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Jensen wants to make the new world infrastructure using artificial intelligence
Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati has said that AI general intelligence systems will be able to perform a range of cognitive tasks as well as humans. Murati added that there’s been too much obsession over departures that’s not enough on the substance of artificial intelligence development. She further said that AI systems will have to…
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Amazon has its own set of Nova models
Amazon has announced a series of artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models ‘Nova’ under the Amazon Bedrock model library in AWS. The models have watermarking capabilities and are available as part of the Bedrock model library in AWS. Amazon is also releasing content generation models ‘Nova Canvas’ and ‘Nova Reel’, which the company said have watermarking…
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This year will be the first time that Amazon won’t deliver itsAlexa smart speaker
Amazon’s voice-activated assistant Alexa has stopped allowing users to access it, a report said. The report added that pre-trained artificial intelligence models used to answer complicated questions will more likely fail at setting a kitchen timer or controlling smart lights. It added that the new Alexa messes up smart homes integrations, hallucinates and seems to…
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Huge lost mountain cities can be seen by lasers
Researchers at UK’s DeepMind lab have developed an approach to marking digital text that uses a statistical signature. The watermarks should be invisible to the users and they should be immediately evident to specialised software. Researchers used brain scans, high-altitude tree planting and digital watermarks to find out how well the statistical signature was able…
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The project by Sam Altman has a new name and Orb
Tools for Humanity CEO Rich Heley has said that they need to provide access to every human in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Heley stated that there are “lots of Orbs” and that it would probably be a thousand times more Orbs than we have today. Heley further said that World will let people…
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My cat is tracked by Ring’s video history search
Amazon’s security camera company Ring announced that it has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered video search on its app for all users. Ring said it can search for queries relating to animals, vehicles, packages, and people by location, time, and weather, as well as by the question, “raccoons in the backyard last night.” It plans…
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Meta’s movie Gen makes converting video clips
Instagram-owned Meta has announced Movie Gen, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that gives videos a new look. The platform shared multiple 10-second clips generated with the tool to demonstrate its capabilities. Movie Gen is able to produce high-definition videos up to 16 seconds long, and Meta claims it outperforms competitive models in overall video quality.
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Strange particles are seen in the sky for the first time
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara have built an artificial intelligence map of fruit fly’s brain. The map was used to predict how specialised neurons in the fruit fly’s brain work. The researchers confirmed their predictions in flies who were between seven and nine days old by using an X-ray machine, showcasing the…
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Sam Altman doesn’t agree that Artificial Intelligence will solve all of humanity’s problems
Sam Altman, who recently attended Burning Man festival in the US, said that artificial intelligence can solve all of humanity’s problems. Altman, who is the former Chief Design Officer at Apple, further said that the same business model that has been exploitative to consumers for decades is the reason why he thinks Artificial Intelligence on…
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Corporate lobbying is taking over artificial intelligence laws in the US
Many scholars believe that the incentive structure in place in the industry makes firms under invest in research into ethical and social consequences of Artificial intelligence, even though it is important. Researchers accounted for only 3.84% of total Nature Index output in AI in 2023. Industry alone or in collaboration with universities had the leading…
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A guide to the nature index
Nature Index has released a report on its tracks of research output in the artificial intelligence (AI) era. It found that out of the top 10 institutions and countries/territories, India had the largest number of AI research publications between 2019-23. Researchers in India wrote over 26,000 crore in AI-related research from 2019 to 2023, according…
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Corporate lobbying is having an impact on artificial intelligence laws in the US
Several companies have started offering open access to their artificial intelligence (AI) models as a way to encourage more people to work with them. However, companies are still moving towards open access because they would like more people to work with them. It still represents 3.8% of total AI share in the United States last…
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The Biden administration says that Russia is attempting to interfere in the US election
The US Justice Department said that it has broken up a Russian propaganda campaign which used artificial intelligence tools and relied on fake social media accounts impersonating Americans to spread disinformation in the US and other countries. ATennessee-based media network that produced shows for high-profile right-wing influencers was largely funded by Russian state-backed news network…