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Generative AI Needs to Respect Artists

Both the US and UK governments are considering the use of copyrighted material from the creative industries in training data for AIs, particularly Generative AI. The tech companies want to do this with few restrictions and without cost, citing "fair use". As it stands at the moment, the UK Government looks to be leaning towards the tech companies but judges

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Search With Shopping Features

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announce Monday, TechCrunch reported. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to webpages where users can buy the products. OpenAI says

Musk’s xAI Holdings Is Reportedly Raising The Second-Largest Private Funding Round Ever

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” TechCrunch reported. If successful, the deal would be the second-largest startup funding round ever, behind only OpenAI’s $40 billion raise

Sam Altman Says “Open AI Is Not For Sale”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees in a memo on Tuesday that the company hasn’t received “anything official” from Elon Musk regarding a potential purchase of the artificial intelligence startup, CNBC reported. “Our structure exists to ensure that no individual can take control of OpenAI,” Altman wrote, in the memo that was obtained by CNBC. “Elon runs a competitive AI

OpenAI Unveils A New ChatGPT Agent For “Deep Research”

OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform, TechCrunch reported. Appropriately enough, it’s called deep research. OpenAI said in a blog post published Sunday that this new capability was designed for “people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, policy, and engineering and

Joe Biden Signs Executive Order To Speed Up AI Data Center Construction

President Biden issued an executive order today aimed at speeding the development of AI data centers in the U.S, The Verge reported. It directs the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) to lease federal sites to private companies building gigawatt-scale AI data centers and clean power facilities. It also tells federal agencies to “prioritize” and speed up

OpenAI Unveils o3 and o3-Mini Trained To “Think” Before Responding

OpenAI saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day “shipmas” event, TechCrunch reported. On Friday, the company unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 “reasoning” model it released earlier in the year. O3 is a model family, to be more precise — as was the case with o1. There’s o3 and o3-mini, a smaller, distilled model fine-tuned