|
Navigation
Search
Top: eWeek
|
PC / Tech. > eWeek
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 10:23 AM
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, the company he co-founded alongside CEO Sam Altman and others, has been ongoing for a while. After recently agreeing to expedite the process, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has officially scheduled a jury trial to...
Monday April 7, 2025. 11:11 PM
A new report from a United Nations agency warns that AI is widening global income inequality and outlines a plan to harness its potential more equitably. In addition, the Technology and Innovation Report 2025 by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) predicts...
A 74-year-old man has apologized to a panel of appellate New York State judges after presenting an AI-generated digital avatar in a legal appeal — a move that has sparked concerns over transparency and ethics in the courtroom. At the March 26 hearing, plaintiff Jerome...
Meta recently faced accusations of training its AI models on pirated content; now, OpenAI finds itself entangled in a similar controversy. A new study claims that one of OpenAI’s latest large language models (LLMs) was trained on non-public, copyrighted-projected material...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 08:18 PM
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model has definitively beaten the Turing test, after it was found to be human 73% of the instances where it was prompted to adopt a human-like persona. The Turing test, named after British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, measures a machine’s...
AI experts are more likely to be optimistic about the technology than the general public, according to a study released April 3 by the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 5,410 U.S. adults and 1,013 AI experts throughout 2024. Despite their differences, both groups agreed on...
Friday April 4, 2025. 10:17 PM
Vana, a decentralized platform that started as an MIT project, offers an opportunity to those who want more say in how their data is utilized. Users can decide where they want their data to be allocated and receive a stake in the AI models that are trained on it. The fully...
The new Dreamer AI system, developed by Google’s DeepMind team, has successfully learned how to mine diamonds in Minecraft — without any direct instruction on how to play the game. Mining diamonds is a challenging, multi-phase task that the AI model mastered through a...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 10:49 PM
Although movement is underway to get AI to think more like humans, researchers at Elon University are exploring the reverse — how AI might reshape human thinking. A newly released university report, “Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI?” offers a...
Amazon’s rollout of Alexa+, the AI-focused upgrade to its popular virtual assistant, may have some users asking, “Alexa, where are the new features?” For example, Alexa+ can’t yet order takeout on Grubhub or identify family members from its camera to remind them to...
Artificial intelligence and satellites have been deployed to track extensive infrastructure damage caused by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake to help aid workers in Myanmar. At midday on March 28, an earthquake hit Southeast Asia, collapsing buildings, dams, roads, and bridges....
Anthropic introduced Claude for Education, a new mode and initiative for integrating generative AI into higher education. Claude for Education is available now. Anthropic has also inked partnerships with Northeastern University, London School of Economics and Political...
The U.S. and China remain locked in a race for dominance in AI, a competition that intensified following the January launch of DeepSeek, a Chinese rival to ChatGPT. Now, the race has elevated a notch higher, with both nations ramping up efforts to develop humanoid robots...
Famed director David Cronenberg weighed in on the controversy surrounding the use of AI in the Oscar-nominated film “The Brutalist.” He made these remarks during a wide-ranging conversation with longtime collaborator and composer Howard Shore, as well as Jon Burlingame, last...
This list of AI companies reflects the rapid growth and the shifts reshaping the tech industry. I’ve grouped the companies by type — generative AI pioneers, established tech giants, sector-specific specialists, and ambitious newcomers. It’s hard to say which of them...
AI drug design and development company Isomorphic Labs announced on Monday that it raised $600 million in its first external funding round. Thrive Capital led the financing round with participation from Google’s GV, and follow-on capital from Alphabet, its parent company...
Wednesday April 2, 2025. 10:02 PM
Google DeepMind has unveiled its new family of AI Gemini 2.0 models designed for multimodal robots. To prove just how far these robots have come, DeepMind put them to the test: One robot grabbed a ball, took aim, and performed a slam dunk into a basketball hoop —...
Artificial intelligence and robotics are rapidly transforming the landscape of modern home appliances, with tech giants Apple and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics leading the charge. Apple Home brings AI-powered vacuum control to iOS 18.4 With the release of iOS 18.4,...
AI video startup Runway has announced a new, more advanced AI video generation model, which the company is calling Gen-4. With this model, Runway hopes to solve several of the most difficult challenges that plague AI video generation. The company’s announcement describes...
Microsoft’s AI Skills Fest will be focused on helping newbies, business pros, and tech gurus strengthen their artificial intelligence skills across a number of areas. The AI training event is scheduled from April 8 – May 28, 2025. Per a recent study conducted by Coursera,...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Apr, Sun 20 - 16:29 CEST
|
