Future Tech & Ethical AI

Microsoft is a major provider of cloud services and artificial intelligence for the Israeli military, according to internal documents.

A group of Grammy-nominated songwriters including Jessi Alexander, Amy Allen, Jessie Jo Dillon, and RAYE will not attend or perform at Spotify’s Songwriter Of The Year Grammy party, which is currently scheduled for Jan. 28 ahead of the 2025 Grammy Awards on Feb. 2. According to Billboard, Allen (“Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Adore You” by Harry Styles, and “greedy” by Tate McRae) and Dillon (“10,000 Hours” by Dan + Shay, “Lies Lies Lies” by Morgan Wallen and “Am I Okay?” by Megan Moroney) are citing Spotify’s treatment of songwriters as the reason for their decision not to attend. This means that four out of the five Songwriter Of The Year-nominated artists will not be at the party. The fifth, Edgar Barrera, has not commented on the matter yet.

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Google finally released its new AI model, Gemini, a rival to OpenAI's GPT-4. In their demo, they used some editing magic to enhance the model's WOW factor that garnered criticism.

A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy

Google's latest version of its Gemini AI model (Exp-1114) has achieved top scores across most test categories in the Chatbot Arena, now sharing the leading position with OpenAI's GPT-4o, according to testing platform lmarena.ai.

Microsoft's latest Copilot update continues to brew controversy as AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman highlights plans to evolve it into a virtual companion that fosters lasting and meaningful relationships.

Compare generative AI productivity tools Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini in key areas like features, pricing, performance and integration abilities.

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News sparks speculation Microsoft will go multi-model with other AI products.

The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.

Meta has released several new AI models, including one designed to evaluate other AI models, as part of its ongoing efforts to AMI.

Microsoft announced a series of new health-care data and AI tools for clinicians on Thursday.

Copilot is getting its biggest redesign and new features.

The cases had established the European Union as the world’s leading tech watchdog, but have since raised questions about its protracted appeals process.

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An advertising partner of Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon admitted that your smartphones and other devices can listen to everything you say for ad targeting.

In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists are exploring living computers

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During the past year, the pace of AI adoption has accelerated significantly, ushering in groundbreaking advances, discoveries and solutions with the potential to help address humanity’s biggest problems. We see this as a massive platform shift, akin to the printing press, which was not just an invention, but a technology that shaped a new economy....

A study found ChatGPT's responses to health-related questions on Reddit’s r/AskDocs superior to physicians' 79% of the time, with higher quality and empathy ratings, though more research is needed for clinical applications.

CriticGPT is intended to help identify hallucinations as models grow more sophisticated

Further evidence that AGI is not imminent

Apple or Microsoft: How do the two leading desktop operating systems stack up on usability, security, hardware compatibility, and 16 other important factors? We break it down feature by feature.

(NEXSTAR) — Have you noticed this? As more and more technology companies roll out their own AI products and services, there's one thing that's been pretty common among many of the competitors: they all use the sparkle emoji in relation to the use of artificial intelligence. But why? These are the 10 worst U.S. cities for bed bugs, says new ranking Currently, you can see a sparkle emoji beside "AI Overview" Google suggestions, which appe…

The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it.

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Microsoft said its Azure OpenAI Service must not be used "by or for" U.S. police for facial recognition purposes

Insiders say he's Microsoft's secret weapon in the AI wars