“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argu…
“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík co…
Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first …
“The arrival of AI agents in offensive activity must drive an immediate review of security and data protection models,” wrote Francisco Pérez Bes of Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD. The AEPD has received its first notification of a personal da…
Lucid and Bolt announced a partnership today to build and deploy autonomous vehicles across Europe, with the ride-hailing platform aiming to put at least 25,000 self-driving Lucid EVs on its network.
It’s the second big autonomous-fleet deal Lucid h…
The Scaleup Europe Fund, a €5bn growth fund backed by the European Commission, is in discussions to invest in the voice AI company ElevenLabs, according to Bloomberg. The report says ElevenLabs aims to raise over $500 million in this funding round. Tal…
Strasbourg – The European Commission has proposed a draft of the EU KIDS Act to prevent children under 13 from using social media across the EU and to stop anyone under 15 from creating an account. The EU KIDS Act, adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday, al…
“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transformative health solutions to people living with chronic diseases,” said Mike Doustdar, president and chief executive of Novo. The Da…
“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gomez, Cohere’s chief executive. Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement, the…
Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to r…