Artificial Intelligence news

CMA says tie-up does not qualify for an official investigation under Britain’s merger control regimeThe UK’s competition watchdog will not hold a formal investigation into Microsoft’s partnership with the startup behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, stating that while the $2.9tn (£2.3tn) tech company has “material influence” over OpenAI it does not control it.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest fina

A day after launch of contentious feature, its bias meter said some accounts see Klan as ‘responding to societal changes’The Los Angeles Times has reportedly removed its new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from one of its articles, just a day after launching the feature.The publication unveiled a new AI-driven feature called “Insights” this week, designed to accompany articles that express a particular viewpoint or are “written from a personal perspective”,

The judge rejected Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction but fast-tracked the dispute for a trialA US judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction to pause OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit model but agreed to hear a trial in the fall of this year, the latest turn in the high-stakes legal fight.The tech billionaire does not have “the high burden required for a preliminary injunction” to block the conversion of OpenAI, said Yvonne

How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cultYears before she became the peculiar central thread linking a double homicide in Pennsylvania, the fatal shooting of a federal agent in Vermont and the murder of an elderly landlord in California, a computer programmer bought a sailboat.The programmer was known to friends, foes and followers as Ziz. She had come to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2016 as part of an influx of you

Survey of bosses and staff finds that more than half of executives feel their organisation has no official AI planSome companies are “stuck in neutral” in their approach to artificial intelligence, according to Microsoft’s UK boss, who said a significant number of private and public sector organisations lack any formal AI strategy.A Microsoft survey of nearly 1,500 UK senior leaders across public and private sectors, as well as 1,440 employees, found that more than half of exec

Georgia-based group used deepfake videos and false news featuring Martin Lewis, Zoe Ball and Ben Fogle to promote fraudulent crypto schemesHow call centre scammers duped 6,000 peopleWhat is investment fraud and what help is there?An organised network operating from the former Soviet state of Georgia has scammed thousands of savers from the UK, Europe and Canada out of $35m (£27m) after they fell for fake celebrity adverts on Facebook and Google that the government promised to outlaw three