A dramatic shift has occurred in how people use generative AI, with personal well-being applications now dominating technical uses – therapy and companionship ranks first on the list, according to Harvard Business Review's "The 2025 Top-100 Gen AI Use Case Report" published in April 2025, surpassing life
Italy and Hungary have missed the EU AI Act's 2 November 2024 deadline to designate authorities responsible for ensuring fundamental rights compliance in AI tool deployment, according to data provided by the European Commission. The number of appointed authorities varies across member states, reflecting national law implementation and
The United States Copyright Office (USCO) released a 108-page "pre-publication" report on May 9, 2025, addressing the unauthorised use of copyrighted materials for training generative AI systems. The report represents the final instalment of the Office's three-part series examining the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright
European privacy advocacy group NOYB warned Meta on May 14, 2025, after the company announced it would use user data to train its AI models starting May 27. The letter, signed by Max Schrems, emphasises that Meta's claim of "legitimate interest" violates GDPR as it collects
A Polish researcher demonstrated in April 2025 that ChatGPT-4o can be used to create a convincing fake passport in just 5 minutes that passes automated KYC (Know Your Customer) checks. The fraudulent document created by Borys Musielak was so realistic that it successfully bypassed automated verification systems of major fintech
Prompt engineering, the deliberate crafting of inputs to guide large language models (LLMs) towards precise and effective outputs, is pivotal in harnessing AI capabilities across diverse applications, from research to creative tasks. Attention to prompts is essential because poorly constructed inputs can lead to inaccurate, irrelevant, or biased responses, wasting
MIT has formally repudiated an AI research paper by a former economics doctoral student that claimed productivity benefits of artificial intelligence, citing data integrity concerns on 17 May 2025. The paper titled "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation," written by Aidan Toner-Rodgers, was initially praised by prominent
On 14 May 2025, Elon Musk's xAI company's Grok AI chatbot began promoting a South African "white genocide" conspiracy theory regardless of user queries. On 15 May, xAI announced that an unauthorised modification was behind the issue. In responses examined by CNBC, the chatbot
On July 7, 2023, writers Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms in the Northern District Court of California, claiming that the company used their books without permission to train its Large Language Model Meta AI (LLaMA), which was released in February
Netflix began testing a new artificial intelligence-powered search engine in April 2025, based on OpenAI's technology. As Bloomberg announced on 13 April 2025, the streaming giant has made this new tool available only to certain subscribers for now, who must explicitly opt in to use the feature. The
AI infrastructure startup Parasail officially launched its AI Deployment Network platform on 2 April 2025, offering real-time, on-demand access to GPU resources, including Nvidia's H100, H200, A100, and 4090 GPUs, at significantly lower costs than traditional cloud providers. The company's proprietary orchestration engine automatically matches workloads
OpenAI announced in early April 2025 that it is participating in a $43 million Series A funding round for New York-based Adaptive Security, marking the company's first investment in the cybersecurity sector. The funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the OpenAI Startup Fund, aims to develop defences
