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Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward

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A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta, authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have alleged that Meta has violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI models, and […]

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SXSW 2025 live coverage: Jay Graber’s keynote, plus more AI, Wooly Mammoths and Death Stranding 2

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Disney highlights links between movies, parks, and tech Disney’s SXSW session on “The Future of World-Building” lived up to its promise of special guests, with appearances from “The Mandalorian” creator Jon Favreau, Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, Marvel Entertainment president Kevin Feige, and “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr. They appeared alongside the Imagineers

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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

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Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing —

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Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model

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Google on Friday added a new, experimental “embedding” model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API. Embedding models translate text inputs like words and phrases into numerical representations, known as embeddings, that capture the semantic meaning of the text. Embeddings are used in a range of applications, such as document retrieval and classification,

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Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires 1 million-square-foot property in Memphis

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xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has acquired a 1 million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI data center footprint, according to a press release from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The new land will host infrastructure to complement xAI’s existing Memphis data center. “xAI’s acquisition of this property ensures we’ll remain at the

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Health expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connections

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With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. According to Kasley Killam, author of the social health-focused book “The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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