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Google using AI to come up with search answers in UK trial

Google using AI to come up with search answers in UK trial

Google began publishing artificial intelligence (AI) search results in the UK last year, following a trial in the US. Initially, only a small number of users entering the UK will see 'generic' AI-generated search results. While Google's AI search results are a significant technological advancement, they have raised concerns among publishers. Some worry that the comprehensive results provided by AI...

Google using AI to come up with search answers in UK trial

Google using AI to come up with search answers in UK trial

Google began publishing artificial intelligence (AI) search results in the UK last year, following a trial in the US. Initially, only a small number of users entering the UK will see 'generic' AI-generated search results. While Google's AI search results are a significant technological advancement, they have raised concerns among publishers. Some worry that the comprehensive results provided by AI...

Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI’s board after an investigation into sudden firing

Sam Altman Takes Control of OpenAI as He Rejoins Its Board

The nonprofit board hired an independent investigation committee which found out that CEO Sam Altman's conduct "wasn’t enough" to fire him. He not only survived a boardroom coup attempt in November, but he will also now rejoin the board. In a press release, Bret Taylor, the board chair of the WilmerHale law firm, said the law firm had interviewed board...

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets

Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI secrets

In the state of California Linwei Ding was charged with four counts and detained on Wednesday. The perpetrator is an alleged Chinese hacker who took more than 500 confidential files. The jail sentence may range from 0 to 10 years per offense and the fine can be up to $250,000 for each count. A lawyer for Mr Ding could not...

Facebook and Instagram services restored after global outage 

Facebook and Instagram restored after outages

Meta assures it has now fixed a "technical issue" that caused Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook to be unavailable. Roughly 297,000 people across the world were hampered to use them for around 2 hours on Tuesday. There were frustrating moments when people tried to access the websites and applications only to be presented with error messages and could only refresh...

Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families in fiery US Senate hearing

Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families in fiery US Senate hearing

Those who survived, Mr Zuckerberg, who runs Instagram and Facebook, turned to them and said, “No one should go through what you have”. Members of both parties grilled them for more than three and half hours in the course of questioning Senate leaders from both sides, including TikTok, Snap, X and Discord’s bosses. Lawmakers wanted to know what measures...

Zuckerberg wins on Wall Street after Washington hit

Zuckerberg wins on Wall Street after Washington hit

The social media firm updated investors with a slew of good news: triple-digit quarterly profits, users up 7.1%, lower costs and ad sales of $38.4bn in the first three months of this calendar year against $22.7bn in the same period last year. Its hugely lampooned, money-burning virtual reality emitted a beep as it crossed the $1bn revenue threshold. All...

Tech bosses, including Zuckerberg face Congressional hearing on child safety online

Tech bosses to testify on child safety

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Linda Yaccarino of X – joining tech bosses sharing concern about children’s mental health and online safety – appear in Washington today. The politicians argue that large tech corporations are not doing enough to ensure the safety of children and prevent their exploitation. Technology News reports that they have fought harder laws while calling on...

Zuckerberg wins on Wall Street after Washington hit

Zuckerberg wins on Wall Street after Washington hit

The social media firm updated investors with a slew of good news: triple-digit quarterly profits, users up 7.1%, lower costs and ad sales of $38.4bn in the first three months of this calendar year against $22.7bn in the same period last year. Its hugely lampooned, money-burning virtual reality emitted a beep as it crossed the $1bn revenue threshold. All...

New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for ‘billions’

NYT’s copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft

The American news organisation New York Times is suing OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, alleging that the company's copyright was violated when training the system. The lawsuit also names Microsoft as a defendant and says the companies should be liable for “billions of dollars” in damages. ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) “learn” by analysing large amounts of...