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OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today announced that he was withdrawing the free-tier rollout of the new image-generation tool trained partly by the renowned Japanese animation school Studio Ghibli after images flooded the internet just a day after its release. Altman explained …
New York judge allows New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed
A federal judge in New York today rejected OpenAI‘s bid to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times accusing the company of scraping data from its content to train its products. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein narrowed the scope …
NSA warned about vulnerabilities in Signal prior to White House group chat fiasco
The National Security Agency issued an operational security special bulletin to its staff at the end of February 2024, carrying the warning that the encrypted messaging application Signal might not be secure, according to a report published by CBS News today. Such …
Security sloppiness at the White House: Yemen war plans shared with Atlantic editor over Signal
The National Security Council today said it’s reviewing an incident in which The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal chat in which top White House officials discussed operational war plans against the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg, who described …
Court rules copyrighting AI-generated art is a no-go – even if you invented the software
A U.S. federal appeals court today ruled that art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be granted copyright protection. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimous in saying there must be initial human …
FTC commissioners claim they were ‘illegally fired’ by Trump
In an effort to establish more control over regulators, President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission today. Historically, the FTC’s five members have comprised three people from the same party as the president and two from the …
Meta says it’s almost ready to start testing Community Notes
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, announced today that it will begin testing its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. The old system of third-party fact-checking has been with the company since 2016. Chief Executive …
After confusion, FTC says it will go ahead with Amazon deceptive practices case
Following a short delay over what may or may not have been staffing shortages, the Federal Trade Commission now says it will now continue with its consumer protection trial against Amazon.com Inc. “We have lost employees in the agency, in our division …
Sam Altman says OpenAI has trained a fiction writing AI model that’s actually decent
So far, generative artificial intelligence models have been able to pull off only crude assimilations of fiction writing, but OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman today said his firm has trained a model for that particular purpose, and he claims it’s “really good.” …
Digital Fort Knox: Trump signs executive order for US strategic bitcoin reserve
President Donald Trump today signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and other digital currencies, an account whose value is currently worth billions of dollars. It’s estimated that there is close to 200,000 bitcoin held by the U.S. government, although …