Machine Learning Research
Meta updated its popular open-weights models, claiming performance superior to closed competitors in three size classes.
Tech & Society
Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.
Business
The United States Copyright Office determined that existing laws are sufficient to decide whether a given AI-generated work is protected by copyright, making additional legislation unnecessary.
Tech & Society
A United States court delivered a major ruling that begins to answer the question whether, and under what conditions, training an AI system on copyrighted material is considered fair use that doesn’t require permission.
Machine Learning Research
Most models that have learned to reason via reinforcement learning were huge models. A much smaller model now competes with them.
Tech & Society
Amazon announced Alexa+, a major upgrade to its long-running voice assistant.
Machine Learning Research
Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet implements a hybrid reasoning approach that lets users decide how much thinking they want the model to do before it renders a response.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI launched GPT-4.5, which may be its last non-reasoning model.
Business
Top AI companies announced plans to dramatically ramp up their spending on AI infrastructure.
Tech & Society
The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
Business
Elon Musk and a group of investors made an unsolicited bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating the AI powerhouse’s future plans.
Machine Learning Research
Replit, an AI-driven integrated development environment, updated its mobile app to generate further mobile apps to order.