Jony Ive and Sam Altman are in a building
Google-owned artificial intelligence startup OpenAI’s Co-founder Sam Altman told its employees that it plans to launch its first product with ex- Apple CEO Jony Ive’s design studio, LoveFrom, later this year. Altman added the product will be a portable speaker and it’ll be able to sit on a desk or be carried around. Ive is leaving Apple after over 15 years to set up OpenAI.
Brian Eno is the composer of Windows 95
Microsoft’s former employee Nasr Nasr in an Instagram post said Microsoft’s failure to show Israel’s “war crimes that are powered by Azure” is a “betrayal of the company’s values”. Nasr added he was fired when he participated in a protest against the company’s relationship with Israel’s IMOD, which deals with artificial intelligence technology. Microsoft had last week said its AI was used in Gaza war.
The DOJ still believes that the company should be broken up
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is proposing to require Google to give up its Chrome web search engine. The proposal would also require Apple to stop paying partners for preferential treatment of Google’s search engine. It further requires Google to notIFY federal and state officials before proceeding with investments in artificial intelligence (AI).
ThomsonReuters won an early court battle over fair use
A US judge has ruled that an artificial intelligence firm could not use copyright-protected content from law firm Westlaw’s website, a ruling that could have a major effect on AI firms. “We are pleased that the court granted summary judgment in our favour,” Westlaw said. It added that the copied content will not be used without the firm’s consent.
The models that OpenAI has have helped train are the ones that helped train China
US-based Meta Technologies, which has over 800 million downloads on its platform ‘Lam’, said it believes “open source” artificial intelligence (AI) models are driving a significant shift in the industry. “That’s going to bring benefits of AI to everyone faster,” a Meta spokesperson said. Earlier, a research paper by DeepSeek claimed its previous model cost only $5.6 million to build.
Amazon has a set of Nova models
Amazon unveiled its plans to build one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputers in collaboration with Anthropic. The company expects the supercomputer to feature hundreds of thousands of Amazon’s latest AI training chip, Trainium 2, to be the largest reported Artificial Intelligence machine in the world when finished. Amazon also unveiled new content generation models, Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel.
The Three mile Island nuclear plant is going to power Microsoft’s data centers
Microsoft has signed a deal with Constellation Energy to buy nuclear power for data centre operations in the US. The agreement will allow Microsoft to run its data centers on “clean, carbon-free energy”. The company’s data centres, which are used for cloud computing and artificial intelligence programs, will be able to run again after the restart of the Three Mile Island power plant.
These states are leading the way in passing Deepfake Porn Laws
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deepfake pornography are issues worth talking about, Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at WIRED said in a conversation. She also said the year of generative artificial intelligence was “the year of the WIRED politics team’s project”. “It seems like the hysteria around AI has waned, but deepfakes of politicians are still out there,” Feiger added.
Making it behave is the biggest artificial intelligence challenge Apple has
Apple has announced a new feature called ‘Genmoji’ that will allow users to have their own reactions created by Artificial Intelligence (AI) if they don’t like one. The ‘Genmoji’ feature can work in several apps, Apple said, but also has its own app by the same name. It added the feature will be available on the iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year.
Everything was announced in the Microsoft build 2024
Microsoft announced it’ll be working on developing a platform for developers to create artificial intelligence-based apps for Windows. The platform will enable developers to improve Windows’ new recall feature by adding contextual information to their apps that are fed into the database. It will also let developers integrate things like studios and filters into their apps.