The FTC released a statement this week on open-source software, outlining its goal to reduce anti-competitive practices in artificial intelligence.  

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Meta’s oversight board is reviewing the company’s handling of two sexually explicit AI-generated images of female celebrities that circulated on Facebook and Instagram.

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The Biden administration is wading into the debate about whether the most powerful artificial intelligence systems should be “open source” or closed. Tech companies are divided on how open to make AI models.

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The New York Times sent Perplexity a "cease and desist" notice demanding the company stop using its content for generative AI purposes.

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Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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The owner of Tumblr and WordPress.com, Automattic, is reportedly in talks with major AI companies to provide training data from users’ posts. Following the news, both sites now have a policy allowing users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties.

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Frank Pasquale, professor at Cornell Tech, is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms and machine learning. He said New York City is good to be engaging with AI responsibility on this level.

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Apple is set to begin taking orders for the Vision Pro on Friday. The base configuration of the headset will cost $3,499.

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People can now talk to and have a conversation with OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT. The company says it can generate human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.

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The Supreme Court heard a pair of cases that will influence the future of online speech and the limits of future tech regulation.

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