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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...

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...

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...

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...