Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models Summary Uber India is using its app to offer drivers short ‘digital tasks’ — paid micro‑gigs that…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Opinion piece by Simon Sharwood exploring the unsettling prospect that ageing autocrats such as Xi Jinping and Vladimir…
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe Summary Analyst firm Gartner predicts that by 2030 all IT work will involve AI — with…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Summary Originality.ai analysed 29,000 YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) Google queries and the AI Overviews…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Summary AI startup Anthropic has proposed a settlement creating a $1.5 billion fund to compensate authors…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is widening its access restrictions and will block its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from certain countries…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton told the Financial Times that AI is likely to concentrate wealth…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by Carnegie Mellon researchers, which pairs students with opposing views…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class action fund to settle litigation…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary San Francisco-based Anthropic has expanded restrictions to block its AI services from companies majority-owned by entities in countries it classifies…
