AI21 Labs raises $64M to help it compete against OpenAI

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25.06.2025

AI21 Labs has raised $64 million in a funding round to help it compete against OpenAI and other NLP leaders. Competition in NLP (Natural Language Processing) is heating up. OpenAI is currently seen as the industry leader with its GPT-3 model but rivals are gaining traction. Investors see AI21 Labs...

Ukraine harnesses Clearview AI to uncover assailants and identify the fallen

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24.06.2025

Ukraine is using Clearview AI’s facial recognition software to uncover Russian assailants and identify Ukrainians who’ve sadly lost their lives in the conflict. The company’s chief executive, Hoan Ton-That, told Reuters that Ukraine’s defence ministry...

MEPs back AI mass surveillance ban for the EU

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23.06.2025

MEPs from the European Parliament have adopted a resolution in favour of banning AI-powered mass surveillance and facial recognition in public spaces. With a 71 vote majority, MEPs sided with Petar Vitanov’s report that argued...

How to use AI-driven speech analytics in contact centres

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22.06.2025

Speech analytics driven by AI is speech recognition software that works using natural language processing and machine learning technologies. With speech analytics in call centres, you can convert live speech into text. After that, the...

Details leak of Jony Ive’s ambitious OpenAI device

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21.06.2025

After what felt like an age of tech industry tea-leaf reading, OpenAI has officially snapped up “io,” the much-buzzed-about startup building an AI device from former Apple design guru Jony Ive and OpenAI’s chief, Sam...

DHS AI roadmap prioritises cybersecurity and national safety

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20.06.2025

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has launched its inaugural Roadmap for AI. Viewed as a crucial step in the broader governmental effort to ensure the secure development and...

Transforming real-time monitoring with AI-enhanced digital twins

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19.06.2025

A recent McKinsey report found that 75% of large enterprises are investing in digital twins to scale their AI solutions. Combining digital twins with AI has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of large language...

Amazon trains 980M parameter LLM with ’emergent abilities’

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18.06.2025

Researchers at Amazon have trained a new large language model (LLM) for text-to-speech that they claim exhibits “emergent” abilities.  The 980 million parameter model, called BASE TTS, is the largest text-to-speech model yet created. The...

Ebuyer research reveals extent of public concerns surrounding AI

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17.06.2025

Ebuyer has found from mass data collection that more than 2.9 million negative conversations surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) were sparked online in the past year. Using data from Google Search Trends, Linkfluence, and Answer the...

ChatGPT’s political bias highlighted in study

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16.06.2025

A study conducted by computer and information science researchers from the UK and Brazil has raised concerns about the objectivity of ChatGPT. The researchers claim to have discovered substantial political bias in ChatGPT’s responses, leaning...