Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney For Copyright Infringement Summary Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a copyright lawsuit in a California federal court accusing Midjourney of training its image model on…
Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s India arm has begun offering rideshare and delivery drivers short digital gigs via its app…
UK Government Trial of M365 Copilot Finds No Clear Productivity Boost Summary The UK Department for Business and Trade ran a pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot between October and December…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth in the…
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary This WIRED piece introduces “model welfare,” an emerging area of research that asks whether advanced AI systems could be conscious and, if so, what…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has started an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) supplied by Facewatch at two UK stores (Sydenham and Bath)…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary A UK government department ran a three‑month trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot (October–December 2024) using 1,000 licences to…
Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger Summary Atlassian has agreed an all-cash $610m purchase of New York startup The Browser Company. The Browser Company will remain an independent…
No chips for you! Senator wants Americans to get first dibs on GPUs, restrict sales to others Summary Senator Jim Banks has introduced the ‘Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National…
Boffins detail new method to make neural nets forget private and copyrighted info Summary Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have proposed a new, computationally efficient technique called “source…
