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DeepSeek and AI Energy Efficiency: A Genuine Step Towards Sustainability?

Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek unveiled its new chatbot in January 2025, which, they claim, operates at a considerably lower cost and energy consumption than competitors. This could represent a significant breakthrough in reducing the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, as current data centres consume 1-2% of global electricity, according

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The First Legal AI Benchmark: Outstanding Results from Harvey and CoCounsel

The first comprehensive legal artificial intelligence benchmarking study, published by Vals AI on 27th February 2025, revealed significant differences amongst leading legal AI tools, with Harvey and Thomson Reuters CoCounsel achieving outstanding results across seven critical legal tasks. The study compared four AI tools—Harvey, CoCounsel, Vincent AI (vLex) and

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Elon Musk and Governmental Artificial Intelligence: Radical Transformation or Dangerous Experiment?

According to Elon Musk, artificial intelligence could soon assume portions of governmental functions, whilst he actively shapes the future of American public administration. As head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the tech billionaire has begun transforming several agencies in recent months, including the General Services Administration (GSA). The

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Can an AI-created work be copyrighted? The US Copyright Office's stance

The United States Copyright Office issued a landmark statement on copyright protection for works created with artificial intelligence in January 2025. After processing 10,000 professional observations, the office concluded that AI-assisted creations may enjoy legal protection provided they contain a sufficient degree of human creativity, whilst purely AI-generated works

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Thought-Controlled Typing? Meta's New Brain-to-Text Decoding Tool Directly Converts Brain Signals into Text

Meta researchers have achieved a breakthrough in the brain-computer interface field: they have developed a new tool capable of converting brain signals into text. In the research published in February 2025, they examined the brain's language production using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG) with the participation of 35

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