Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights
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Hollywood Joins AI Copyright Fight: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney, alleging the image generator violates their intellectual property rights

Hollywood studios joined the record companies, publishers, and artists in the fight against companies that have trained AI models on their copyrighted works.

June 19, 20253 min read
High-Skilled Immigration and International Students Are Good For the U.S. — And the World: Making H1-B and F-1 visas more difficult to get harms U.S. competitiveness in AI and innovation worldwide.
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High-Skilled Immigration and International Students Are Good For the U.S. — And the World: Making H1-B and F-1 visas more difficult to get harms U.S. competitiveness in AI and innovation worldwide.

One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-skilled immigration and international students who have the potential to become high-skilled.

June 18, 20253 min read
Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links
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Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links

Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.

June 4, 20252 min read
AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom
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AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

June 4, 20253 min read
Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages
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Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.

June 4, 20252 min read
How AI Fund Is Building AI Builders: AI-enabled coding empowers anyone build software that boosts productivity and makes life easier. Here’s now non-engineers at AI Fund are building apps for fun and profit.
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How AI Fund Is Building AI Builders: AI-enabled coding empowers anyone build software that boosts productivity and makes life easier. Here’s now non-engineers at AI Fund are building apps for fun and profit.

Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.

June 4, 20252 min read
Cut Research Funding, Weaken the Nation: Open scientific research makes the U.S. stronger. Cutting funding risks national competitiveness and security.
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Cut Research Funding, Weaken the Nation: Open scientific research makes the U.S. stronger. Cutting funding risks national competitiveness and security.

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.

May 28, 20253 min read
Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books
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Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.

May 28, 20253 min read
Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding
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Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding

Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.

May 28, 20253 min read
Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations
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Grok’s Fixation on South Africa: xAI blames unnamed, unauthorized employee for chatbot introducing "white genocide" into conversations

An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.

May 21, 20252 min read
EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions
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EU Loosens AI Regulations: European regulators move to relax some AI Act rules on developers’ liability, other provisions

The European Union made an abrupt U-turn away from its stringent AI regulations. Meta promptly adjusted to the loosening restrictions.

May 14, 20252 min read
The User Is Always… a Genius!: OpenAI pulls GPT-4o update after users report sycophantic behavior
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The User Is Always… a Genius!: OpenAI pulls GPT-4o update after users report sycophantic behavior

OpenAI’s most widely used model briefly developed a habit of flattering users, with laughable and sometimes worrisome results.

May 7, 20253 min read
The AI Revolution Comes to Grade-School Classrooms: Kira Learning is using AI to help teachers individualize computer-science education and address social-emotional needs.
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The AI Revolution Comes to Grade-School Classrooms: Kira Learning is using AI to help teachers individualize computer-science education and address social-emotional needs.

I hope we can empower everyone to build with AI. Starting from K-12, we should teach every student AI enabled coding, since this will enable them to become more productive and more empowered adults.

April 30, 20252 min read
New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator
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New Image Generator for OpenAI API: OpenAI launches API access to GPT Image 1, ChatGPT’s viral image generator

ChatGPT’s image generator is available via API.

April 30, 20252 min read
U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation
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U.S. Tightens Grip on AI Chips: U.S. makes new rules for AI chip export rules to China, launches Nvidia investigation

The U.S. government escalated its long-running effort to block China’s access to cutting-edge AI hardware.

April 23, 20252 min read

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