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Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta over copyright infringement in AI training
Comedian and writer Sarah Silverman has filed copyright infringement lawsuits against the makers of ChatGPT as well as Facebook parent company Meta, saying that their AI system's use of her copyright works for training violates her intellectual property rights.The...
UK regulator refers cloud infrastructure market for investigation
UK communications regulator Ofcom has published an interim report that proposes the cloud infrastructure market be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) due to concerns around a decline in competition.The report said that existing cloud...
Apple’s cutting-edge Vision Pro doesn’t need iPhone sales to succeed
Let’s get something out of the way right at the beginning: We already know Apple’s Vision Pro device consists of a bundle of bleeding-edge technologies competitors can’t easily emulate.How do we know this? Because supply chain reports claim the lenses used in these...
Q&A: How AI can help enterprise HR automate employee experiences
Sterlite Technologies. (STL), a global fiber optics provider, has been increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the company's employee recruitment and hiring, conduct staff pulse checks, and gamify worker rewards.The India-based company employs...
Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars
Global revenue generated by public cloud services topped the $500 billion mark in 2022, according to new data released this week by research firm IDC.The actual figure was $545.8 billion, IDC’s research found, a sum that represents a 22.9% increase over the previous...
Apple was right not to run a social network
Witnessing the madness of "King twit" and the data-munching journey of that monarch’s latest competitor in the race to commoditize communication, I’m glad Apple at least put some priority on privacy when no one else in Big Tech chose to.To read this article in full,...
OpenAI launches new alignment division to tackle risks of superintelligent AI
OpenAI is opening a new alignment research division, focused on developing training techniques to stop superintelligent AI — artificial intelligence that could outthink humans and become misaligned with humans ethics — from causing serious harm.“Currently, we don't...
Lawyers and Incident Response can be a dangerous combo
Lawyers and C-suite leaders have the same basic mission: protect the enterprise from bad actors who want to do harm. But they often often approach the job in such polar opposite ways that they wind up fighting each other instead of working together. A new academic...
Shutterstock offers customers legal indemnity for AI-created image use
Stock content provider and creative suite Shutterstock is the latest company in its field to offer customers a legal indemnity against suits related to AI-generated images created and licensed on its platform.In its announcement, issued Thursday, Shutterstock said...
Digital transformation, AI, and the productivity problem
The age of generative AI comes with the promise that it will significantly increase productivity. I can certainly see the potential given I’m using a form of it writing this column and it is doing a decent job of anticipating the next word I intend to write. But I’m...
Apple’s new 15-in. M2 MacBook Air is a consumer workhorse
Can you run your business on a 15-in. MacBook Air? I’ve used one for about a week, and I think most people can. It provides everything that's good in the existing M2 MacBook Air, but with a bigger screen and an approachable price.Out of the box Out of the box you can...
NYC law governing AI-based hiring tools goes live
After several delays, a New York City law requiring companies to vet their automated employee hiring or promotion tools went into effect Wednesday in an attempt to thwart biases baked into software used by HR offices.New York City Local Law 144, also known as the Bias...