Author: Art Ryan

A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training its Llama AI models on e-books without permission. The brief, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division, calls Meta’s fair use defense “a breathtaking request for greater legal privileges than courts have ever granted human authors.” “The use of copyrighted works to train generative models is not ‘transformative,’ because using works for that purpose is not relevantly different from using them to educate human authors, which is a principal original…

A group of ex-OpenAI employees on Friday filed a proposed amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, opposing OpenAI’s planned conversion from a nonprofit to a for-profit corporation. The brief, filed by Harvard law professor and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig, names 12 former OpenAI employees: Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chowdhury, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Kokotajlo, Gretchen Krueger, Todor Markov, Richard Ngo, Girish Sastry, William Saunders, Carrol Wainwright, and Jeffrey Wu. It makes the case that, if OpenAI’s non-profit ceded control of the organization’s business operations, it would “fundamentally violate its mission.” Several of the ex-staffers have…

OpenAI will soon retire GPT-4, an AI model it launched over two years ago, from ChatGPT, according to a changelog posted on Thursday. Effective April 30, GPT-4 will be “fully replaced” by GPT-4o, the current default model in ChatGPT, OpenAI said. GPT-4 will remain available for use via OpenAI’s API. “In head‑to‑head evaluations, [GPT-4o] consistently surpasses GPT‑4 in writing, coding, STEM, and more,” wrote OpenAI in the changelog. “Recent upgrades have further improved GPT‑4o’s instruction following, problem solving, and conversational flow, making it a natural successor to GPT‑4.” GPT-4 was rolled out in March 2023 for ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot on the…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – GenQE, an emerging leader in AI-driven Quality Assurance (QA) automation, is set to exhibit at the Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place on April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. With a mission to redefine software quality engineering, GenQE empowers development teams with intelligent testing solutions that accelerate time to market, eliminate bottlenecks, and enhance product reliability. Smarter, Faster, and More Intelligent Testing Traditional QA methods often lag behind the rapid pace of modern software development. GenQE solves this challenge by introducing a cutting-edge platform that brings AI automation to every stage of the QA…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – Ragworks AI, a pioneering force in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise intelligence, is set to exhibit at the prestigious Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place on April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. With a mission to turn data into dialogue, Ragworks AI empowers organizations to extract precise, context-rich insights from both structured and unstructured sources, transforming the way businesses interact with information. Redefining Information Discovery with Generative AI Ragworks AI brings together the best of two worlds: powerful data retrieval engines and generative AI models to create a seamless, conversational interface between users and…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – Axra.ai, an emerging leader in conversational AI and natural language processing (NLP), will be one of the standout exhibitors at the highly anticipated Dubai AI Festival 2025, scheduled for April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. With its proprietary ChatGPT-powered platform, Axra.ai is redefining how businesses and individuals engage with artificial intelligence—through natural, intelligent, and contextually aware conversations. Conversational AI That Thinks, Understands, and Responds Like a Human At the core of Axra.ai’s innovation lies a robust, scalable conversational AI engine built to simulate human-like dialogue with remarkable fluency and contextual depth. Leveraging the power…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – Voicecomm Technology, a leading innovator in AI-driven communication platforms and enterprise solutions, is set to exhibit at the prestigious Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place on April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. With a proven track record in enhancing operational efficiency, customer engagement, and digital transformation, Voicecomm is transforming how businesses connect, collaborate, and serve. Revolutionizing Enterprise Communication with AI Voicecomm Technology delivers intelligent communication ecosystems that go far beyond voice. Its solutions leverage natural language processing, conversational AI, and smart analytics to empower businesses with seamless internal collaboration, automated customer support, and intelligent…

Dubai, UAE – April 2025 – GRAG AI Factory, a pioneer in advanced, purpose-driven AI solutions, is set to exhibit at the upcoming Dubai AI Festival 2025, taking place on April 23–24 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. Known for building transformative technologies that solve real-world problems, GRAG AI Factory is leading a new wave of AI innovation that is deeply human-centric, socially responsive, and globally scalable. Engineering AI for Real-World Impact At GRAG AI Factory, artificial intelligence is more than a tool—it’s a force for change. The company designs and deploys cutting-edge AI systems that address complex challenges in healthcare, climate…

🚀 Africa’s Digital Leap is Here From April 14 to 16, 2025, all eyes will be on Marrakech, Morocco, as GITEX Africa returns—bigger, bolder, and more influential than ever. As Africa’s largest tech and startup event, it marks a turning point in the continent’s digital journey, bringing together the most powerful voices in tech, innovation, and policy. Once labeled an emerging player, Africa is now a global tech force, with vibrant startup ecosystems rising in Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, and more. Backed by surging venture capital and youth-led innovation, Africa is set to shape the next chapter of the global tech…

In a recent appearance on Possible, a podcast co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google plans to eventually combine its Gemini AI models with its Veo video-generating models to improve the former’s understanding of the physical world. “We’ve always built Gemini, our foundation model, to be multimodal from the beginning,” Hassabis said, “and the reason we did that [is because] we have a vision for this idea of a universal digital assistant, an assistant that … actually helps you in the real world.” The AI industry is moving gradually toward “omni” models, if you will — models that can understand…

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed ambitions to widely deploy AI coding models within the social media giant. Yet even some of the best models today struggle to resolve software bugs that wouldn’t trip up experienced devs. A new study from Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s R&D division, reveals that models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, fail to debug many issues in a software development benchmark called SWE-bench Lite. The…

OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations. The company says the feature, which appears in ChatGPT’s settings as “reference saved memories,” aims to make conversations with ChatGPT more relevant to users. The update will add conversational context to ChatGPT’s text, voice, and image-generation features, the company added. The new memory feature will roll out first to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, except for those based in the U.K., EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and…

A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video — to users in real time without interruptions. Some firms build solutions in-house, but these often require a lot of upkeep and maintenance. To ease the burden, Russ d’Sa and David Zhao created LiveKit, an open source software package for building apps that can transmit real-time audio and video. They launched the project in 2021 and soon suspected it had business potential. It was a good hunch. LiveKit now has “more than 500 paying customers and over 100,000 developers across its cloud platform and…

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy thinks companies should invest “aggressively” in AI now to reap the full financial rewards in the future. In his annual letter to Amazon shareholders published Thursday, Jassy said “substantial capital” is required to keep up with the pace of AI innovation and customer demand for AI products. He added that Amazon, too, needs to spend this money now if it hopes to see strong returns on its investment years down the line. Jassy’s comments come after Amazon announced plans during its fourth-quarter earnings call in February to spend more than $100 billion on capital expenditures in 2025. The “vast…

In the world of tech, some might argue that the term of the decade is AI, but in the bigger scheme of things, beyond this single sector, the most important word may well be “resilience.” How well prepared are people, organizations, and countries for unforeseen, negative economic, geopolitical, social, and environmental developments? It’s a question that’s triggering a lot of scrambling in search of answers. This existential crisis is also playing out in the world of tech. We’re more reliant than ever before on services working — on uptime, in other words — and downtime may speak to bigger crises…

AI labs like OpenAI claim that their so-called “reasoning” AI models, which can “think” through problems step by step, are more capable than their non-reasoning counterparts in specific domains, such as physics. But while this generally appears to be the case, reasoning models are also much more expensive to benchmark, making it difficult to independently verify these claims. According to data from Artificial Analysis, a third-party AI testing outfit, it costs $2,767.05 to evaluate OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model across a suite of seven popular AI benchmarks: MMLU-Pro, GPQA Diamond, Humanity’s Last Exam, LiveCodeBench, SciCode, AIME 2024, and MATH-500. Benchmarking Anthropic’s recent Claude 3.7 Sonnet,…

How do you get talented engineers to work for a startup in a mundane field at a time when more exciting companies are paying well and hiring aggressively? Here’s an answer from one insurance startup out of Poland called Ominimo: make pay competitive, but more importantly, give those engineers the license to apply their talent and reinvent how the field works. Launched on a bootstrapped budget just 12 months ago, Ominimo believes it’s found a different and better approach to understanding and pricing risk. The company says it’s already profitable and growing fast, with 300,000 policies signed up in its first…

Billionaire Elon Musk has just been countersued by OpenAI, but that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API. It has been several months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the company’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini. Grok 3 can analyze images and respond to questions, and it powers a number of features on Musk’s social network X, which not so coincidentally was acquired by xAI in March. xAI is offering two flavors of its flagship model via its API: Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with “reasoning” capabilities. Grok 3 is priced at $3…

The European Commission this week announced an AI Continent Action plan that calls for investments in AI and HPC accompanied by multiple AI factories across Europe. The EC said 13 of these factories are being deployed in conjunction with the continent’s supercomputing resources and are intended to support EU AI startups, industry and researchers in developing AI models and applications. The commission said its AI Gigafactories “will be large-scale facilities equipped with approximately 100,000 state-of-the-art AI chips, four times more than current AI factories.” While the EC said its intent is to become a global leader in AI, they also…

The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota is introducing a new graduate program: the Master of Arts in Artificial Intelligence Leadership (MAIL). Classes will begin in fall 2025. This interdisciplinary program targets non-technical professionals seeking to understand and strategically manage the increasing integration of artificial intelligence in their workplaces. Focusing on ethical considerations, strategic implementation, and effective communication, MAIL aims to empower leaders to collaborate effectively with AI developers and technical experts. As organizations across business, non-profit, and government sectors adopt AI technologies, many leaders find themselves needing more knowledge to manage these powerful tools responsibly. The Master of Arts in AI…