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More and more big names in international publishing are approaching artificial intelligence. Renowned powerhouses in the field have recently proposed a fair number of agreements with various companies, as to gain access to various information-rich archives, an extremely valuable resource for the development of AI syste...

OpenAI officially became a ‘for-profit’ company. Although the company also ran a for-profit division, it was always overseen by a non-profit board of directors whose mission focused on potential benefit to humanity - recently, however, OpenAI opted for a conventional corporate structure. In addition to this notabl...

We recently published a blurb regarding a reference article in which Niantic, the company responsible for the Pokémon Go phenomenon, shared a project called the ‘Large Geospatial Model’: a kind of highly detailed, technologically interacting map of the world, built from data collected by users of the application o...

Following an impressive series of questionable choices made by US entrepreneur Elon Musk, a large number of X (formerly known as Twitter) users decided to remove themselves from the platform, in favour of a new social media still in its infancy. BlueSky, an application born out of a previous internal Twitter project, t...

Today's reference article takes the form of a brief, albeit comprehensive, exposition of some of the key elements of online security. Based on a presentation given by Sebastian Zdrojewski at this year's GDPR Day, it revolves around the topic of hacking, VPNs, NIS2 and the supply chain. Any ‘IP address’ in the vast...

The article we offer you today is quite different from what has been proposed in the past. The article on the MagIA.news website presents itself as a careful and meticulous analysis of the anti-piracy law 93/2023- containing ‘provisions for the prevention and repression of the unlawful dissemination of copyright-prot...

Artificial intelligence has always been regarded solely and exclusively as a tool, a valuable resource with enormous potential, unfortunately used too often out of proportion. Its ‘mechanical’ aspect has never been questioned: it is a machine, a technology under development, nothing more. Considering recent develo...

Within the medical-scientific sector, it is of paramount importance to pay attention to the information that is communicated, especially from the point of view of veracity and accuracy. What is communicated within hospitals, clinics and similar environments has the potential to change patients' lives - it is therefore ...

The era of Large Language Models (LLMs) seems to have just reached its zenith, with the constant updates of ChatGPT and similar services demonstrating the constant use of these innovations - however, a rather eye-catching novelty seems ready to emerge from around the corner: Large Geospatial Models (LGMs), recently int...

As mentioned in a recent article in this section, several companies specialised in artificial intelligence have begun to approach the literary environment. The aim is to gain access to countless published titles and, consequently, consent to use what they write as material to feed to AI models undergoing ‘training’...

The english speaking world has, for years now, boasted a group of publishing houses called ‘The Big 5’. Consisting of HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster, the group is responsible for publishing English-language texts for the British-American market. HarperCollins recentl...

The ability to remember what has been learned and build connections has always been regarded as exclusively human - however, the development of artificial intelligence seems determined to change this idea. In the past year, several tech companies have implemented some kind of ‘intelligent memory’ within their AI mo...

Perhaps artificial intelligence really is trying to kill us - perhaps not in general, but this peculiar chatbot added by Meta within a Facebook group dedicated to mushroom picking almost certainly desires human suffering. Let's leave light-hearted jokes aside, however, as the consumption of dangerous mushrooms often ha...

The winter holidays are approaching and, with them, comes the long-awaited commercial from the giant Coca-Cola company. Every year, the world huddles around the TV set as winter rages outside, hoping to feel some of the familiar warmth that characterises the company's Christmas commercials - heart-warming stories that ...

One of the giants of the gaming industry has recently come under the spotlight due to a peculiar incident. The Japanese company Nintendo is notorious within the industry for being rather punitive when it comes to the illicit dissemination of products not yet officially released - many content creators specialising in g...

Some people, unfortunately, cannot find rest even in death. This is the case of Brianna Ghey, a young transgender girl victim of a hate crime in September 2023, and Molly Russell, a 14-year-old victim of the dangerous influence of social media on the psyche of young people. Both have returned to the centre of media att...