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Music Publishers Sue Twitter for Up to $250 Million in Copyright Case
A group of 17 music publishers sued the social media company and said it was seeking as much as $250 million in damages.
Generative A.I. Can Add $4.4 Trillion in Value to Global Economy, Study Says
The report from McKinsey comes as a debate rages over the potential economic effects of A.I.-powered chatbots on labor and the economy.
E.U. Takes Major Step Toward Regulating A.I.
A draft law in the European Parliament has become the world’s most far-reaching attempt to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
Reddit Communities Go Dark to Protest New App Policy
Volunteer moderators closed off access to numerous subreddits and denounced the platform’s pricing plan for developers of popular outside apps used to navigate the site.
Diablo IV Breaks Blizzard Records, Surpassing ‘$666 Million’ in Sales
The latest entry in the franchise has seen strong early demand and a smooth launch, according to the company, which isn’t always the case for Blizzard’s popular titles.
Binance Spars With U.S. Regulators Over Asset Freeze
A judge urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to reach a compromise with Binance that would allow the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the United States.
OpenAI rolls out big chatbot API upgrades for developers
Enlarge / An AI-generated chatbot flying like a superhero. (credit: Stable Diffusion / OpenAI) On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a sizable update to its large language model API offerings (including GPT-4 and gpt-3.5-turbo), including a new function calling capability, significant cost reductions, and a 16,000 token context window option for the gpt-3.5-turbo model. In large language...
Paul McCartney: “Final” Beatles song out this year, thanks to AI
Enlarge / A portrait of The Beatles in 1966, as imagined by AI image synthesis. (credit: Stable Diffusion) On Tuesday, BBC Radio 4’s Today program aired an interview with Paul McCartney in which he announced that thanks to AI technology, a “final Beatles record” has been finished and will be released later this year. He...
Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs 60 feet away
Enlarge / Left: a smart card reader processing the encryption key of an inserted smart card. Right: a surveillance camera video records the reader’s power LED from 60 feet away. (credit: Nassi et al.) Researchers have devised a novel attack that recovers the secret encryption keys stored in smart cards and smartphones by using cameras...