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'AI Valley' author worries there's 'so much power in the hands of few people'

12:59pm March 19, 2025

Author Gary Rivlin says regulation can help control how AI is used: "AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education ... as long as we're deliberate about it."

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Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art

5:00am February 17, 2025

by Chloe Veltman

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

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International regulators probe how DeepSeek is using data. Is the app safe to use?

2:22pm January 31, 2025

The Chinese chatbot took the world by storm and rattled stock markets. But lost in all the attention was a focus on how the company is collecting and storing data.

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U.S. stock markets tumble as investors worry about DeepSeek

11:43am January 27, 2025

The Chinese AI company may be about to burst Silicon Valley's bubble.

Major authors hope new AI licensing site will help them keep control of their books

4:11pm January 17, 2025

by Chloe Veltman

In the wake of several lawsuits involving authors suing AI companies for allegedly scraping their literary works to train models, some big-name writers are signing on to a new AI licensing platform.

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'The New York Times' takes OpenAI to court. ChatGPT's future could be on the line

5:00am January 14, 2025

In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.

President Biden Delivers Final Foreign Policy Speech Of His Administration At The State Department

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Biden puts AI and climate at the top of the list for Trump administration

4:11pm January 13, 2025

President Biden, 82, has focused on U.S. foreign policy for decades. As he leaves office, he said his team's work on artificial intelligence and climate was key for his successor to follow through on.

A phone company developed an AI 'granny' to beat scammers at their own game

5:03am December 10, 2024

The company behind the scam-baiting granny said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time, keeping them away from real people.

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Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

12:01am December 10, 2024

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content.

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Biden and Xi take a first step to limit AI and nuclear decisions at their last meeting

8:14pm November 16, 2024

The leaders agreed that humans should control decisions to use nuclear weapons — not AI. And they talked about the importance of stability during the transition to a new U.S. administration.