Microsoft faces charges from the EU for abuses
The European Union (EU) has said it will impose a fine on Microsoft if it is found guilty of antitrust violations, if it cannot reach an agreement. In 2004, the EU had ordered Microsoft to offer a Windows operating system without Media Player bundled, which resulted in a Windows XP N version available only in EU markets.
Major record labels are suing the company behind ‘BSL Drizzy’
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed lawsuits against Suno, Udio and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement. RIAA said Suno’s technology generates soundalikes of artists like Mariah Carey without the permission of them. It claimed Suno’s training data contains copyrighted material that has been “misappropriated” and “misused”. Suno CEO Mikey Schulman said Suno doesn’t allow user prompts based on specific artists.
After the US banned its software, a cybersecurity firm denied it was a hazard
US Commerce Department said it’ll be working with other government agencies to “get this message out” and “ensure a smooth transition” after it banned Kaspersky Lab from operating in the country. The agency added it wouldn’t disrupt the business of any of the Americans. Kaspersky said the ban is based on “geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns” rather than independently verifying if there was a risk.
The neo-Nazis are all on the same page
Extremists in the US are using AI to produce video content as well as text, images and videos, according to a report by Tech Against terrorism. The report said that with the release of OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation or manipulation platforms, extremists have been using them as a means of producing video content.
We are still waiting for the next big leap in artificial intelligence
Anthropic has unveiled its latest AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which it claims to be twice as fast as its previous model Claude. The new model is the first to be introduced under Anthropic’s new lineup that includes Haiku, Sonnet and Opus. The company said it will turn Claude into a tool for companies to securely centralised their knowledge.
Europe must be relevant in the age of artificial intelligence
As per a study published in the journal Nature, there is no clarity on how many of the models will fit the EU’s definition of “open source”. “To our surprise, it was the small players, with relatively few resources, that go the extra mile,” the study’s authors said. However, the authors identified the most and least open models.
Scientists say how fish know where sounds come from is up to them
Researchers have used PIVlab80, originally developed to measure motion of flowing particles, to analyse the motion of inner structures of submerged fish using an external speaker in a DAQ card. The fish position has a pressure of approximately 1 Pa and particle motion of around 8 MM s1, which is in line with the expected amplitude relationship between pressure and motion.
The Amazon union workers have struck a deal
The Teamsters and Amazon Labor Union (ALU) will fight “fearlessly” to ensure Amazon workers secure jobs and safe working conditions they deserve in a union contract, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien said. “Amazon will have to answer to the Teamsters and ALU, standing together,” he added. This comes after ALU won elections in New York and Staten Island.
Fisker tried to outdo Musk and it went down in flames
Billionaire entrepreneur Henrik Fisker-led electric carmaker Fisker Automotive has filed for bankruptcy protection and said that it was working with creditors to “stabilise its operations”, according to reports. Fisker Automotive had filed for bankruptcy protection in 2017 after it went bankrupt due to unpaid bills. It was also forced to stop manufacturing its first-ever autonomous car, the ‘Ocean’.
Researchers can help to shepherd the new drugs to market
Sonam Ghosh and his collaborators, who were working 10-to-12-hour days, were working on a one-off treatment that would edit the DNA in the brain cells of 20-year-old Uditi Sarafs. The team genetically engineered the woman’s FENIB mutation into cells grown in the lab. Uditi had Neuroserpin clumps in some of her neurons and the team was designing a one-off treatment to stop them.