April 22, 2025

Emily Rampling

Tech & AI

RLWRLD raises $14.8M to build a foundational model for robotics

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial

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‘It’s Smarter to Be 6 Months Behind’ — Here’s Why

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. Image: Microsoft At a time when tech giants are racing to build the most powerful AI models on

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Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call to delete IP laws as artists resist

As artists fight to protect their works from being used to train AI models, Jack Dorsey wants to eliminate intellectual property (IP) laws

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A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’

The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day

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Debates over AI benchmarking have reached Pokémon

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model

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Some AI Talent ‘In Despair’ Reportedly About Google DeepMind’s Noncompete Rules

Image: Envato/YuriArcursPeopleimages In the high-stakes race for AI dominance, Google’s DeepMind division is tightening its grip on talent, forcing some employees to sit

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ChatGPT will help you jailbreak its own image-generation rules, report finds

Eased restrictions around ChatGPT image generation can make it easy to create political deepfakes, according to a report from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting

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OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up

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Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts 

Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and

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Amazon’s New Nova Sonic AI Model Features a ‘More Human-like Voice’

Amazon Nova Canvas is a foundation model for developers to create high-quality images. Image: Amazon Amazon is the latest tech giant to unveil

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