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What did Australias Productivity Commission, a government-backed independent agency, propose with respect to training AI systems with copyrighted content? How have authors, artists, trade unions, and media organisations responded to the proposal? What is the Copyright and AI Reference Group?
Indias State governments have in the past employed private companies to seed clouds, when their regions faced drought; the results have been hit-and-miss.
Enshittification is a term increasingly being used to describe how your digital experiences, services, and transactions have become worse over time. However, the words creator says this is a deliberate process, and that pushing back is possible
Microsoft and OpenAI inked a deal enhancing the ChatGPT makers fundraising ability and OpenAI promptly started laying groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at $1 trillion
Virkkunen said Nexperia has been invited to the Chips Act Task Force, which is collecting information on the potential economic impacts of the supply crunch
U.S. national security concerns that the Chinese military could use U.S. technology did not make sense, he added, because Chinas own domestically produced AI chips were good enough for their military applications
The passkeys will allow users to encrypt their chat backups with fingerprint, face or screen lock code now instead of having to remember a password or a 64-digit encryption key
Netflix has hired Moelis & Co, the investment bank that advised Skydance Media on its successful bid for Paramount Global, to evaluate a prospective offer, two of the sources said
The EU uses the term hybrid threats to refer to coordinated attacks using a combination of economic, technological or other measures that fall short of formal warfare
The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court claims that Radha Jain and Joanna Cohen were entrusted with Palantirs crown jewels, including its source code and customer information, and breached agreements they signed with the company to safeguard that information
Poolside is in discussions to raise $2 billion at a pre-money $12 billion valuation, adding that Nvidia's investment in the round would start at $500 million, with the potential to reach $1 billion if the startup meets its fundraising targets
Any deal would likely value SambaNova at below the $5 billion it fetched in a 2021 funding round, and deliberations are in the early stages and there's no certainty the companies will reach an agreement
Apple delivered financial results during its summertime quarter that exceeded analyst projections
Despite low awareness, Indians expressed the most confidence in government regulation
Researchers using near-infrared brain imaging found that rhythmic sounds activate both auditory and motor regions in premature infants, indicating that rhythm processing begins before full-term birth and helps wire early pathways for learning and coordination
Canva is pitching the consolidation of old and new Generative AI features as a Creative Operating System for visual design
YouTube confirmed in a blog post that it would use artificial intelligence (AI) in order to enhance the resolution of creators videos
Grammarly announced that its product would still exist, but that its company name would change to Superhuman as it launches a suite of AI products aimed at enhancing professional emails, meetings, and workflows
Adam Mosseri, head of the platform announced the update saying it will later be expanded to the Explore section too
The percentage of Galaxy S25 users engaging with Galaxy AI is around 91 percent in India
Ribbon Communications is a prime example of this trend, Renals said, given its relationships with U.S. military and major organisations in the telecommunications and energy sectors in multiple countries
The tech giant had started Project Rainier last year to build an AI compute cluster spread across multiple data centers in the U.S. The computer incorporates nearly half-a-million of Amazon's in-house Trainium2 chips
Samsung's latest earnings report marks a sharp turnaround for the company, which saw its profits plunge more than 50 percent on-year in the second quarter
Nadella will address two AI-related conferences in Bengaluru and Mumbai during his visit, which also includes meetings in New Delhi, said one of the sources
Britain's Heathrow Airport's website was back online after issues had affected it earlier in the day. Vodafone had also been impacted due to the outage.
Beyond the laboratory, researchers are exploring more ways to ease HD symptoms and improve quality of life. Multiple studies have shown that structured movement through dance forms like the Argentine tango have helped patients with Parkinsons disease regain some motor control
When cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero, helium becomes a superfluid: it can flow without any friction or viscosity. This means an ultra-shallow film of superfluid helium just a few nanometres thick can move freely without getting stuck. This is impossible for any normal fluid
On platform X, Mr. Vembu re-posted a controversial study that claimed vaccination was a significant, preventable driver of autismbut such a link is unproven
Melissa achieved whats called extreme rapid intensification
Cameo said in the complaint that OpenAI's Cameo, which allows users to create and share their virtual likenesses on Sora, is likely to cause consumer confusion and dilute its brand
Two U.S. senators have asked Amazon to explain why it is the nations largest employer of foreign workers using H-1B visas while also cutting jobs
In 2023, Adobe rolled out Firefly, a service for generating images and other content with text prompts
Using the supercomputer, scientists at Lilly will be able to train AI models on millions of experiments to test potential medicines, expanding the scope of drug discovery efforts, the company said
OpenAI estimated that approximately 0.15 percent of users have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent
Commercial data sharing agreements mean researchers intellectual property is being monetised twice: first through subscriptions, then through AI partnerships, while they continue to not be compensated and being denied control of their work
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, has been stepping up its investments in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure as it seeks new growth drivers beyond smartphones and traditional electronics manufacturing
The business, BlueVerse, launched in June, uses ready-made digital assistants to solve problems for firms
Existing Go subscribers will also get 12 months for free, the company said, with redemption details to be shared later
The company said Workspace and Financial Analytics will be accessible through Anthropic's expanded Claude for Financial Services offering, allowing customers to automate financial analysis
The appeal comes ahead of the November 6 annual meeting, with Tesla's board having faced repeated criticism for not acting in shareholders' best interests and governance experts and advocacy groups questioning its independence and oversight of Musk's influence
The labour-intensive cultivation of the crabs begins with farmers growing their larvae in ponds for about a year before they are moved to fenced farms
Scientists work is often evaluated by the number of citations their papers have garnered. However, there has been a nave assumption that scientists always only cite good-quality papers, which in turn has fed the notion that a papers citation number is indicative of its impact. But this neednt always be true
The authority said it had filed a suit in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its parent Microsoft
Scientists are the best judges of excellence in science
For engineering, a new finding could open a path towards bio-inspired drones that hover stably without complex control algorithms or too many sensors
How does quantum information become hidden in complex systems? How can a quantum computer retrieve it? What real-world applications does this ability have? What are the challenges of establishing quantum advantage?
The glitch took down more than 2,000 companies with it, Downdetector noted, with several apps and services impacted like Amazon, Snapchat, Signal, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Canva, Roblox, Duolingo, Fortnite, Coinbase and Epic Games online services

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