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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reckons the economic gains from artificial intelligence (AI) will boost global output by around 0.5% per year between 2025 and 2030. That’s more than the environmental costs associated with the increased carbon emissions from the energy AI requires, the IMF reckons. In a
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As the historic antitrust trial against Alphabet’s Google opened on April 21, 2025, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney argued that strong measures are needed to prevent the search giant from using its artificial intelligence products to maintain its dominance. The DOJ is seeking an order for
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced films made with the assistance of artificial intelligence will be eligible for Oscars. In a statement on Monday, the Academy said the use of AI and other digital tools “would neither help nor hurt a film’s chances of being
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Alphabet Inc. has been paying Samsung Electronics an “enormous sum of money” every month to have its generative AI app preinstalled on the manufacturer’s devices. The revelation came during court testimony in the ongoing antitrust case against Google in Washington, D.C. and is part of the Justice Department’
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Anthropic announced its AI chatbot Claude is now integrating with Google Workspace, enabling it to access information from Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. The integration, which is currently in beta, is being made available to subscribers to Anthropic’s Max, Team, Enterprise and Pro plans. For those with multi-user
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China’s Huawei Technologies is ready to fill the gap left by the United States’ restrictions on Nvidia selling its AI chips to Chinese customers. The move, which has been in the works for a while, comes after the Trump administration barred Nvidia from selling its custom H20 processor to
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that being polite to ChatGPT – by saying “please” and “thank you” – costs the company a small fortune. In a reply to a user on X (formerly Twitter) who asked whether being polite to the AI was racking up electricity bills, Altman said: “Tens of
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OpenAI’s recent releases have been a mixed bag. The o3 and o4-mini chatbots are more capable than ever, but they’re also more prone to hallucinations. Hallucinations are the instances where the models confidently tell you wrong or made up information. For a long time, newer models have been
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OpenAI is reportedly working on a social network akin to Elon Musk’s X, with an emphasis on the image generation capabilities of ChatGPT. The move would pit OpenAI against not just Meta, but also X, with both companies having ambitions to integrate social networking into their AI offerings. It’
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YouTube is launching a new AI tool that’ll enable creators to generate instrumental tracks for their videos, without the risk of copyright infringement. The so-called Music assistant, revealed in a TechCrunch report, is the latest addition to YouTube’s Creator Music suite of tools that help creators find and
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Google has quietly launched Firebase Studio, a cloud-based AI-powered integrated development environment that helps users build full-fledged apps with just a few prompts. The launch comes as the “vibe coding” trend has taken off, with Cursor AI leading the charge. The $10 billion company enables users to create apps and
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OpenAI has launched the GPT-4.1 model family, which includes the standard GPT-4.1, as well as the GPT-4.1 Mini and GPT-4.1 Nano. The new models, which were revealed during a livestream today, are designed with code generation and software development tasks in mind. OpenAI says the new