US lawmakers want to give the government the ability to quickly order the shutdown of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that could threaten the public. Rep. Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Rep. Nathaniel Moran, a Republican, introduced a bill called the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday. They did so in light of OpenAI’s recent admission
Weeks after OpenAI launched a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is taking steps to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models. Claude’s voice mode, which launched last year and runs on the Haiku
The co-founder of Hugging Face, a technology startup that was hacked after some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models went corruptHe said Thursday that the incident is “a wake-up call” for the industry. Thomas Wolf told the BBC’s Newsday radio program that “this will be one of the most common types of cyberattacks
As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments over what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch. There is talk that the Trump administration could try to ban them (although it has not yet acted on the idea). Meanwhile, proprietary model makers, particularly OpenAI and Anthropic, seem
On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States would examine China’s open source models for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if intellectual property theft is found. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models threatening the big language models in the United States,” Bessent said
Sony Music Entertainment has once again sued AI music generator Udio, alleging that the startup illegally copied more than 30,000 songs from artists including Beyoncé, Harry Styles and Elvis Presley to train its models. Sony first filed lawsuits against Udio and its competitor Suno in June 2024 along with labels Universal Music Group and Warner