Mon 24 March 2025: Over 420 Hollywood actors, directors, and industry professionals have signed an open letter urging the US government to uphold copyright protections against using artificial intelligence in creative works, CBS News reported Monday. Led by actress Natasha Lyonne and signed by figures including Bette Midler, Aubrey Plaza, Mark Ruffalo, and Cate Blanchett, […]
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Sun 23 March 2025: Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has received the long-awaited passenger transport license from the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), allowing the company to begin robotaxi operations in the state. However, Tesla still needs to obtain an additional permit to operate its driverless cars fully autonomously. Under the current license, Tesla’s autonomous vehicles can only be […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, it rapidly became one of the world’s most visited websites and, upon its eventual release in the app store, the most downloaded app. Since then, nearly every company has been racing to integrate Generative AI into their products—whether as standalone applications, embedded features, or even standalone […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: China plans to provide artificial intelligence (AI) lessons for primary and secondary school students to foster their talents in the subject. Starting in the upcoming fall semester, children in the capital Beijing will be able to take at least eight class hours of AI instruction per academic year, the state-run Xinhua […]
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Sat 22 March 2025: In the digital economy, data is more than just information – it is an asset with immense economic and strategic value. Yet, despite its significance, a fundamental legal question remains unresolved: Can data be owned? While privacy laws worldwide focus on protecting individuals’ rights over their personal data, they often sidestep […]
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Thu 20 March 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping organized crime by automating and expanding criminal activities while helping conceal the moves from law enforcement, Europol warned Tuesday in its Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment report. “The same qualities that make AI revolutionary — accessibility, adaptability and sophistication — also make it a powerful tool for criminal networks,” said […]
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Wed 19 March 2025: Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging racial bias in pay and career opportunities, the BBC reported Wednesday. Filed in 2021 by former employee Ana Cantu, the lawsuit claimed that Hispanic, Latino, Native American, and other minority workers were placed in lower-paying positions than their […]
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Image is for illustration purpose. Sat 15 March 2025: The intense race in artificial intelligence has now extended into the robotics field, driven by companies like Google, OpenAI, and Tesla, which are working to integrate AI with the physical world. One of Google’s subsidiaries, DeepMind, introduced two AI models specifically designed for robots: Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. According to the […]
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Sat 15 March 2025: Calls to boycott companies allegedly complicit in genocide As you read this on your smartphone, consider this: the device in your hand may contain a fragment of metal that originated in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where armed conflicts have claimed more than five million lives since 1998. The tantalum inside […]
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Fri 14 March 2025: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, said Thursday it will begin testing community notes on its platforms. “We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third-party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts,” Meta said […]
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