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It's nothing new that the artificial intelligence environment has a tendency to take what it wants without asking for anyone's permission; we are, in fact, facing yet another, identical, situation. In the middle of the last week of June, the two giants OpenAI and Microsoft were sued in a class action lawsuit, claimin...

On Tuesday, July 15, Meta unveiled the first set of updates for Twitter's rival app, Threads, launched more than three weeks ago now. To maintain interest, the app now has a translation button and a tab on the feed dedicated to showing who has followed them. In addition, there is now the ability to subscribe to and re...

"Now, we have at our disposal a new lens on our own galaxy." A recent study in astronomy investigated the universe around us through the use of a huge detector buried under the ice of the South Pole. Indeed, a team of astronomers has discovered the existence of subjects called "neutrinos," ghostly particles that come ...

At the beginning of the last week of June 2023, Amazon Kindle Unlimited's bestseller list of young adult novels found itself full of books with nonsense titles, such as "Architecture of the Apricot Barcode" and "Jessica's Attention." By mid-week, Amazon had already scrambled to fix the situation, but this development ...

"If you create something that is even more aesthetically pleasing, what's wrong with that?" Nicolai Tangen, the chief investor of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund, does not seem to be concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence on his own collection of paintings, as well as part of his profession. "Becaus...

A new type of AI technology aimed at reducing the time cancer patients wait before starting radiation therapy will be offered to all National Health Service departments in England. Researchers at Addenbrooke's Hospital have been working on it for nearly a decade and trained the program using Microsoft. It helps doctor...

As is now well established, ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence platforms are "trained" on huge amounts of images from the vast world of the Internet. Sometimes some of this content may come from the public domain, and other times, it may be licensed. Unfortunately, it is now confirmed that most of the...

While the Writers Guild of America takes an empathetic and humane approach to its members' social media appearances, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers seems to prefer an impersonal and detached viewpoint. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which contracts on behalf of the st...

Marvel's latest series, "Secret Invasion," debuted a few days ago on the Disney+ streaming platform, sparking a series of controversies following the confirmation of the use of artificial intelligence for the introductory sequence. Ali Selim, director of the series in question, admitted that he did not know exactly ho...

Toronto mayoral candidate Anthony Furey says the problem of homelessness is real, although his campaign images are not. His conservative platform proposes increased policing of tent encampments, the dismantling of bike lanes, and the addition of 500 police officers. Furthermore, the candidate's campaign focuses on for...

Members of the Special Unit for the Protection of Privacy and Technological Fraud of the Guardia di Finanza in Rome recently investigated and charged 13 persons, living between Italy and Germany. The individuals in question were acting as administrators of social channels aimed at the abusive sale of subscriptions to T...

The potential of artificial intelligence within the most diverse fields has often been discussed, and the medical industry is no exception. The possibilities that advanced technology such as AI offers could prove to be extremely valuable: from computer vision tools that can detect skin lesions, to data-driven robots t...

Following the intense buzz concerning the recent developments of Artificial Intelligence in art and photography, Nikon Peru embarked on a project to address this situation, in collaboration with the company Grey Peru. Together, the two businesses worked to build an advertising campaign, entitled 'Natural Intelligence',...

Over the past few years, several US restaurant chains have devoted their attention to the Artificial Intelligence environment, and especially to its potential application within the food industry. Following a few attempts in the field, the reactions of the public (and the workers involved) have not been particularly p...

The National Music Publishers Association (NMPA) has sued the Twitter platform, alleging that the platform has allowed copyright infringement of around 1,700 songs and demanding damages in the sum of more than 250 million dollars. The NMPA, representing companies such as Sony Music Publishing, BMG Rights Management an...

Why pay insurmountable sums when you can simply exploit other people's accounts? Recently, a number of users started advertising on Reddit the presence of a Discord server dedicated to sharing API tokens stolen from the code of their respective account owners of the famous artificial intelligence platform: OpenAI. GP...