The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reportedly reopened its antitrust investigation into OpenAI, focusing on the company’s partnership with Microsoft and its competitive practices in the rapidly growing AI sector.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Amazon Web Services (AWS), accusing the tech giant of illegally marketing and selling powerful surveillance technologies, including facial recognition, to government agencies.
Apple has announced a new standalone “Passwords” app for iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and Windows, positioning its integrated iCloud Keychain feature as a direct competitor to popular services like 1Password and LastPass.
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Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is partnering with Nvidia to build a global network of “AI factories,” marking a major strategic shift to provide solutions for AI model training and industrial automation.
Data and AI giant Databricks has announced a $100 million deal to acquire Arcion, a startup specializing in real-time data replication. The acquisition is set to enhance the Databricks Intelligence Platform by simplifying the process of ingesting data from various enterprise sources for AI and analytics workloads.
Elon Musk has abruptly dropped his high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI, which alleged the company had abandoned its founding non-profit mission in pursuit of profits, ending a significant legal challenge just before a key court hearing.
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OpenAI has postponed the alpha release of its highly anticipated advanced Voice Mode for ChatGPT, initially slated for Plus users, to address safety and technical issues needed to ensure a secure user experience.
Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI, founded by former Google researchers including a Transformer paper co-author, has released its first open-source AI models created through a novel ‘evolutionary model merging’ technique, challenging the industry’s reliance on massive-scale training.
France’s competition authority has fined Google €250 million for failing to comply with commitments regarding copyright payments to news publishers for using their content to train its AI models. The decision marks a significant escalation in the ongoing global battle over how AI companies compensate content creators.
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