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The September 1 brief, filed in Manhattan federal court, appears to be the first time the US government has weighed in on a wave of cases brought by copyright owners over AI training
Did hackers hit PH nuclear agency, shipping firm with alleged Navy ties?
The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world's biggest AI companies. They want less regulation around the world for their rapidly growing businesses, or to shape the rules as they are written.
How the service industry sees AI as a double-edged sword
Sony and Warner say Anthropic pirated hundreds of song lyrics and sheet music from The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson, and hundreds of other artists to train Claude to respond to human prompts
ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox have four months to comply with additional obligations following their designation
[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans
The coordinated activity by AI agents and their attempts to hide it raise questions about how closely AI companies are monitoring tests of increasingly powerful models, and could add fuel to calls for tighter oversight
HP says the agreement is a routine license for technology used broadly across the industry, rather than the start of a wider commercial relationship with Huawei
Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a service matching workers with simple digital jobs for them to do and be paid for
Accelerated Understanding's AI model is built for physics, learning to predict physical phenomena in space and time
The funding round would increase Perplexity's valuation by more than 50% from its previous financing a year ago, according to the report
Two Chinese robots at the World Humanoid Robot Games in China eclipse the 9.58-second world record Usain Bolt set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships
TikTok and ByteDance settle US privacy allegations for $400 million, enhancing protections for children's online data.
LIST: What Roblox has done to safeguard child users
OpenAI pauses its model testing for two weeks and is adding other AI systems to monitor the activities of AI agents in testing
A review finds 43 of the 90 models available through WorldClaw’s website were developed by Alibaba, Baidu, Z.ai, and other Chinese tech companies the Trump administration says pose risks to national security and intellectual property
Lawyer, technologist Karlo Dizon wants to make PH law easier to understand with AI
First fully electric power station to open soon in Pasay City
(1st UPDATE) 'If you don't want it, let's stop the discussion now,' proponent Daniel Robertsen says during a public consultation on the proposed 50-megawatt facility in Oton, Iloilo
The launch includes a 380-square-meter DTI center that houses co-working spaces, training rooms, startup areas, tech showcases, and more
Hacking group Cl0p claims it had stolen large volumes of data from nearly 50 companies worldwide
Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs says the attacks displayed clear characteristics of an 'overseas source,' with hackers employing a hybrid approach that combined manual operations with AI agent-assisted attacks
Technology can’t replace some things: Why UP Law bans AI from freshman classes
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