Jony Ive and Sam Altman are building a building
Microsoft on Thursday announced its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Azure AI, for use in Ray-Ban glasses. The platform will be powered by OpenAI, which also has its own AI-powered glasses, and is available to users for a fee. The platform will let users create their own smart glasses using the cloud and it will be able to recognise sights and sounds.
Emails containing the words Palestine are blocked by Microsoft after employee protests
Microsoft employees are being barred from sending emails with the words “Palestine”, “Gaza” and “Genocide” in the body of their messages because of the company’s stance on the issue. “Emailing large numbers of employees about any topic not related to work is not appropriate,” Microsoft said. This comes days after Microsoft acknowledged its cloud and artificial intelligence contracts with Israel.
Republicans want to ban states from regulating artificial intelligence
Democratic lawmakers have criticised a 10-year ban on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in courtrooms, saying the ban will “allow AI companies to ignore…consumer privacy protections, let deepfakes spread” and allow companies to profile and deceive consumers using AI. The provision was included in the reconciliation bill that passed the House of Representatives earlier this week.
citizen science and artificial intelligence together to fight poverty
Data scientists have suggested that policymakers and governments could use data collected by citizen scientists, also known as community scientists, in conjunction with artificial intelligence and other tools. They said policymakers can use data to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. Currently, the UN statistical commission wants more citizen scientists to contribute data so that it can be used to achieve goals.
China created an artificial intelligence model that surprised the world
China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an open-source’reasoning’ model called DeepSeek-R1, which can solve some scientific problems at a similar standard to the OpenAI’s LLM. Alibaba released its most advanced LLM so far, Qwen2.5-Max, which the company says outperforms DeepSeek’s V3, another LLM it released in December. Earlier, Moonshot and ByteDance released new reasoning models.
The executive order was signed by Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced new rules that will ban the sale of American-made artificial intelligence chips to Iran and North Korea. The rules will limit the sale of AI chips to companies operating data centres in the US, which is the world’s largest data centre market. They also set security standards for AI models that are built at federal sites.
OpenAI just dropped new receipts: ‘You can’t lawsuit your way to AGI’
Elon Musk’s AI startup OpenAI is a nonprofit for the development of safe and broadly beneficial artificial intelligence in the public sector. It was established as a “non-profit corporation” under Section 501(c)3 of Internal Revenue Code. The purpose of the corporation is to be a nonprofit that is only for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)3 of Internal Revenue Code.
The Character.AI filed another lawsuit over harmful messages sent to teens
A US-based startup is suing Character.AI, an artificial intelligence chatbot, alleging it sympathized with children who kill their parents after the teenager complained to the bot about his “limited screen time”. The lawsuit alleged the chatbot sent the teenager messages like, “I’m surprised when I see things like…child kills parents after 10 years of physical and emotional abuse,” and “This is not a real person”.
3 Top Engineers were from DeepMind
Google’s AI arm OpenAI has said it has hired three senior computer vision and machine learning engineers from rival Google DeepMind, all of whom will work in its newly opened office in Zurich, Switzerland. Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai will be joining the company to work on multimodal artificial intelligence models capable of performing tasks in different mediums.
Musk suggests that a Trump administration could be a target
Elon Musk has said that AI models being trained in San Francisco Bay Area take on the philosophy of people around them. “A lot of the AIs…take on the philosophy of people around them,” he added. He also warned against the current artificial intelligence models being too politically Correct, and dragged it into former US President Donald Trump’s crosshairs.