AI think tank calls GPT-4 a risk to public safety

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11.09.2025

An AI think tank has filed a complaint with the FTC in a bid to stop OpenAI from further commercial deployments of GPT-4. The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy (CAIDP) claims OpenAI has violated section five of the FTC Act—alleging the company of deceptive and unfair practices. Marc...

CDEI: Public believes tech isn’t being fully utilised to tackle pandemic, greater use depends on governance trust

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29.08.2025

Research from the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) has found the public believes technology isn’t being fully utilised to tackle the pandemic, but greater use requires trust in how it is...

New AI training techniques aim to overcome current challenges

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21.08.2025

OpenAI and other leading AI companies are developing new training techniques to overcome limitations of current methods. Addressing unexpected delays and complications in the development of larger, more powerful language models, these fresh techniques focus...

MIT researchers develop AI to calculate material stress using images

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20.08.2025

Researchers from MIT have developed an AI tool for determining the stress a material is under through analysing images. The pesky laws of physics have been used by engineers for centuries to work out –...

AI learns how to play Minecraft by watching videos

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14.08.2025

Open AI has trained a neural network to play Minecraft by Video PreTraining (VPT) on a massive unlabeled video dataset of human Minecraft play, while using just a small amount of labeled contractor data. With...

Paul O’Sullivan, Salesforce: Transforming work in the GenAI era

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10.08.2025

In the wake of the generative AI (GenAI) revolution, UK businesses find themselves at a crossroads between unprecedented opportunities and inherent challenges. Paul O’Sullivan, Senior Vice President of Solution Engineering (UKI) at Salesforce, sheds light...

NIST: VisionLabs, IDEMIA, and CloudWalk lead in facial recognition accuracy

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08.08.2025

A report from the US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reveals the accuracy of various facial recognition algorithms. The latest edition of the report currently has VisionLabs, IDEMIA, and CloudWalk in the...

IBM and Hugging Face release AI foundation model for climate science

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07.08.2025

In a bid to democratise access to AI technology for climate science, IBM and Hugging Face have announced the release of the watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model. The geospatial model, built from NASA’s satellite data, will...

McDonald’s drive-thru AI bot may have broken privacy law

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01.08.2025

McDonald’s announced earlier this month that it was deploying an AI chatbot to handle its drive-thru orders, but it turns out it might break privacy law. The chatbot is the product of a voice recognition...

Language Processing Units (LPUs): Paving the way for advanced voice AI in contact centres

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23.07.2025

Have you heard about Language Processing Units (LPUs) yet? If you haven’t, prepare to be wowed! LPUs are specialised processors engineered specifically for language-related tasks. They differ from other processors that handle multiple tasks simultaneously....