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ChatGPT forces education startup Chegg to make massive job cuts
Chegg, the US-based education company, is cutting 22 percent of its workforce—about 250 jobs—as more students turn to free AI tools like ChatGPT, which are replacing traditional educational services.
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ChatGPT now lets users analyze company data through a SharePoint connector
ChatGPT can now access company data through a SharePoint connector. The beta feature is available for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. With the new integration, ChatGPT can analyze and summarize ...
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Lloyd’s insurers launch first AI chatbot error policies
For the first time, insurers in London’s Lloyd’s market are offering dedicated policies that cover damages caused by errors from AI chatbots. The product was developed by Armilla, a Y ...
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US Copyright Office says fair use does not cover AI trained on "vast troves of copyrighted works
The US Copyright Office has pushed back against one of the AI industry's most common legal arguments: that training AI models on copyrighted material generally ...
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OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says there is evidence that AI models discover novel insights
Jakub Pachocki, who leads advanced model development at OpenAI, says AI's ability to generate knowledge autonomously marks a turning point for business and research. According to Pachocki, so-called ...
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Bytedance launches Agent TARS, an open-source AI automation agent
Bytedance has introduced Agent TARS, an experimental open-source automation tool that visually processes web pages and interacts with the command line and file system, currently limited to macOS. The ...
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US think tank warns of "reverse brain drain" in China's AI sector
A new report highlights how Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is outperforming Western benchmarks with a research team that is almost entirely China-based—and what that means for the US’s position in global ...
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Google deploys AI in Chrome to detect and block online scams
Google is now using AI models to protect Chrome users from online scams. On desktop, the company has rolled out its local Gemini Nano language model to quickly spot fraudulent websites, including ones ...
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Confident user prompts make LLMs more likely to hallucinate
Many language models are more likely to generate incorrect information when users request concise answers, according to a new benchmark study. The findings suggest a clear pattern: many models are ...
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LegoGPT generates buildable Lego models from text descriptions
A team at Carnegie Mellon University has introduced LegoGPT, an AI system that generates Lego models from text descriptions. The models aren’t just visually accurate—they can actually be built, either ...
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OpenAI plans "cderGPT" for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
OpenAI is reportedly in discussions with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about using AI to help evaluate pharmaceuticals, according to a new report from Wired. At the center of the talks ...
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SoundCloud could train AI models on user data
SoundCloud changed its terms of use in February 2024 to allow uploaded music to be used for AI training. AI copyright activist Ed Newton-Rex spotted the change and ...