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Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs

On Thursday, Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round of €189 million (about $215 million) on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.” CompactifAI is a quantum-computing inspired compression technology that is capable of reducing the size of LLMs by up to 95% without impacting model performance, the

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Wikipedia pauses AI-generated summaries pilot after editors protest

Wikipedia has reportedly paused an experiment that used AI to summarize articles on its platform after editors pushed back. Wikipedia announced earlier this month it was going to run the experiment for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed and chose to opt in, according to 404 Media. AI-generated summaries appeared at the top

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Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging AI-related copyright infringement

Disney and Universal have sued generative AI platform Midjourney for allegedly training its art-generating and -editing models on their content without permission. Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Midjourney ignored their earlier requests to cease violating their intellectual property rights, according to The Wall Street Journal. The suit, filed in the U.S.

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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model

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Apple executives say new AI-powered Siri wasn’t ‘demoware,’ it just wasn’t ready to ship

In a handful of interviews following Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple executives denied that last year’s demonstrations of a personalized, AI-powered Siri were vaporware, despite having yet to launch. Asked by The Wall Street Journal why Apple, with all its engineers and cash, couldn’t make the technology work well enough to ship, the

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