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Meta AI Chief Joelle Pineau Steps Down Amid Heightened AI Investments
April 2, 2025 – Joelle Pineau, the head of artificial intelligence research at Meta, has announced her departure from the company, effective May 30th. Pineau, who joined Meta in 2017, currently serves as the Vice President of AI Research and leads the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team, which is under the direction of renowned AI…
Neuralink’s Pioneering BCI Implant: A Side Effect-Free Journey for First Patient
April 1, 2025 – A Year After Neuralink Implant: Noland Arbaugh Reports No Side Effects and New Abilities Noland Arbaugh, the first human subject to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface (BCI) implant, has shared an update on his progress one year after the procedure. In a post on social media platform X, the quadriplegic individual…
OpenAI Suspends Video Creation for New Sora Users Amid High Traffic Surge
April 1, 2025 – OpenAI’s Image Generation Feature Takes the Internet by Storm, Leading to Temporary Suspension of Video Generation for New Sora Users OpenAI’s newly launched image generation capability, unveiled last week, has quickly become a sensation, with its impressive capabilities generating enormous demand. However, the overwhelming popularity of this feature has also brought…
Snapchat’s AI Chatbot Launch Marred by Wave of Negative Feedback from Parents
March 31, 2025 – Snapchat Unveils “My AI” Chatbot, Sparking Controversy Among Users and Parents On the 27th of last month, CNN reported that Snapchat had rolled out its “My AI” chatbot to all users. Powered by the popular AI chat tool ChatGPT, “My AI” offers similar functionalities, including answering questions, providing advice, and engaging…
OpenAI Rolls Out GPT-4o Upgrade; Paid Subscribers Gain Immediate Access, Free Users Wait
March 28, 2025 – OpenAI Unveils Functional Upgrades for GPT-4o in ChatGPT, Exclusively for Paid Subscribers Initially In a recent announcement, OpenAI has revealed a series of functional updates for GPT-4o within its ChatGPT platform, confirming that the enhanced version of GPT-4o is now accessible to all paid subscribers, while free users will have to…
Humanoid Robot Presents Leather Jacket to Huang Renxun as 1X and NVIDIA Join Forces for Innovation
March 28, 2025 – At the headquarters of 1X Technologies in San Francisco, the NEO Gamma humanoid robot, developed by the company, presented a specially customized black leather jacket to Jen-Hsun Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, who was visiting. This gesture not only showcased the robot’s interactive capabilities but also symbolized the increasingly close partnership…
OpenAI Delays Launch of Free ChatGPT Image Generation Feature
March 27, 2025 – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X today to acknowledge that the popularity of the image generation tool in ChatGPT has far exceeded expectations, leading to a postponement in the rollout plan for free users. Just yesterday, OpenAI hosted a live stream to announce a major upgrade to GPT-4o’s native image…
Meta Settles with UK User, Pledges No More Personalized Ads
March 24, 2025 – Meta has reached a settlement with UK user Tanya O’Carroll, agreeing to cease delivering personalized advertisements to her profile, in a landmark privacy lawsuit that could set a legal precedent for millions of social media users, according to a report by The Guardian on the 22nd. Following the avoidance of a…
Italy Unveils World’s First ‘AI Newspaper’ Fully Authored by Generative AI
March 23, 2025 – Italian national newspaper, Il Foglio, has claimed a groundbreaking milestone by publishing the world’s first newspaper entirely authored by generative artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-generated newspaper was inserted as a paper supplement within the regular edition distributed on the same day, clearly marked with the label “AI” at the masthead. From…
Europol Warns: AI Technologies Like Voice Cloning and Deepfakes Fueling Organized Crime
March 21, 2025 – Europol Sounds Alarm: AI Fueling Organized Crime and Escalating Security Threats In a warning issued on Tuesday, Europol has highlighted the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in empowering organized crime, leading to a significant intensification of security threats across Europe, according to the Associated Press. The newly released “2025 EU…