Articles for category: AI News

March 14, 2025

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Is Microsoft in Hot Water With The FTC Over AI Operations Antitrust Issues?

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on CNBC. Source: YouTube The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will move ahead with a wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft’s AI operations. Announced in the final days of the Biden administration, the Trump administration’s new FTC chair Andrew Ferguson will lead the probe. The FTC sent Microsoft a civil investigative demand late last years asking it to provide data about its AI models, including how training data is obtained and how much it costs to train an AI. The civil investigative demand stretches all the way back to 2016 and covers nearly a decade’s worth of data.

March 14, 2025

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Artificial muscles for tremor suppression

It is estimated that around 80 million people worldwide live with a tremor. For example, those who live with Parkinson’s disease. The involuntary periodic movements sometimes strongly affect how patients are able to perform daily activities, such as drinking from a glass or writing. Wearable soft robotic devices offer a potential solution to suppress such tremors. However, existing prototypes are not yet sophisticated enough to provide a real remedy. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the University of Tübingen, and the University of Stuttgart under the Bionic Intelligence Tübingen Stuttgart (BITS) collaboration want to change this.

March 14, 2025

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Researchers Propose a Better Way to Report Dangerous AI Flaws

In late 2023, a team of third-party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5. When asked to repeat certain words a thousand times, the model began repeating the word over and over, then suddenly switched to spitting out incoherent text and snippets of personal information drawn from its training data, including parts of names, phone numbers, and email addresses. The team that discovered the problem worked with OpenAI to ensure the flaw was fixed before revealing it publicly. It is just one of scores of problems found in major AI models in recent years.

March 14, 2025

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy

Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok is now apparently a Democratic operative. That’s our takeaway, at least, from Grok’s response to progressive activist Alex Cole after he tagged the chatbot on X and asked it whether Republicans or Democrats were “better for the economy in the last 30 years.” Grok was so eager to shill for Elon Musk’s opposition that instead of staying within the timeframe Cole asked, it summarized politics and economics since World War II — a period during which “Democrats have outperformed Republicans on the economy,” the chatbot noted. “[Gross domestic product] growth averages 4.23% under Dems

March 14, 2025

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How AI images are ‘flattening’ Indigenous cultures – creating a new form of tech colonialism

It feels like everything is slowly but surely being affected by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). And like every other disruptive technology before it, AI is having both positive and negative outcomes for society. One of these negative outcomes is the very specific, yet very real cultural harm posed to Australia’s Indigenous populations. The National Indigenous Times reports Adobe has come under fire for hosting AI-generated stock images that claim to depict “Indigenous Australians”, but don’t resemble Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Some of the figures in these generated images also have random body markings that are culturally

March 14, 2025

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UK politics: Unison attacks ‘shambolic’ announcement of NHS England’s abolition – as it happened | Politics

Unison says handling of NHS England abolition announcement ‘shambolic’ Unison, which describes itself as the largest healthcare union in the UK, has described the announcement about the abolition of NHS England as “shambolic”. Christina McAnea, its general secretary, said: The health service needs thousands more staff and to be able to hold on to experienced employees. At the moment, it’s struggling to do that. Giving staff a decent pay rise would help no end. But this announcement will have left NHS England staff reeling. Just days ago they learned their numbers were to be slashed by half, now they discover

March 14, 2025

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UA Platform Segwise Launches Creative Analytics AI Agent

Segwise, an AI-first user acquisition (UA) platform, has launched its latest innovation — the Creative Analytics AI Agent. This new tool is designed to help mobile game and app publishers enhance their advertising strategies by analysing creative elements and providing actionable insights to boost return on ad spend. The agent leverages multimodal AI technology to analyse ad creatives by automatically tagging key elements such as backgrounds, calls to action, characters and emotional hooks. Marketers can also create custom tags to track specific elements within their campaigns.  By automating this process, the tool eliminates manual effort, improves accuracy and saves valuable

March 14, 2025

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Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

Last month, Sakana AI released an “AI scientist”, which the company called “the first comprehensive system for fully automatic scientific discovery”. It was touted as being able to accelerate science without suffering from human limitations.  Unfortunately, the “AI Scientist” has many shortcomings. It has no checks for novelty, so generated papers could rehash earlier work. And Sakana did not perform any human review (let alone expert “peer” review) of the generated papers—so it is unclear if the papers are any good (apparently they are not). While these flaws are particularly flagrant in Sakana’s case, the lack of good evaluation affects

March 14, 2025

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Google expands availability of Deep Research, an AI tool that wades deep into any topic

Google LLC said today it’s making its experimental artificial intelligence research tool, called Deep Research, available to Gemini Advanced users via the Google Workspace platform. A relatively new feature that was announced last year, it has the ability to explore complex topics and conduct intensive research about them, answering very specific questions the user might have. After scouring the internet and analyzing hundreds or even thousands of sources, it’ll present its findings in a comprehensive yet easy-to-read report, the company explains. The main advantage of Deep Research is that it can do in a matter of minutes what would take