artificial intelligence (AI) News

Meta Used Copyrighted Books for AI Training Despite Lawyers’ Warnings, Say Authors

Meta Platforms’ lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit initially brought this …

Tech Update: Hiscox London Mkt, Google Collaborate to Boost Underwriting With AI

Hiscox, the specialist global insurer, has collaborated with Google Cloud to create the first AI-enhanced lead underwriting model in the London market insurance industry. The collaboration combines Hiscox London Market’s recently built technology platform, Hiscox AI Laboratories (Hailo) with Google …

Microsoft Agrees to Union Contract Terms Governing Its Use of AI

Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the Communications Workers of America – the first …

European Union Agrees Landmark Deal Governing Use of Artificial Intelligence

Europe on Friday reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union rules governing the use of artificial intelligence including governments’ use of AI in biometric surveillance and how to regulate AI systems such as ChatGPT. With the political agreement, the …

Microsoft’s OpenAI Investment Risks Scrutiny From US, UK Regulators

The US Federal Trade Commission is examining the nature of Microsoft Corp.’s investment in OpenAI Inc. and whether it may violate antitrust laws, according to a person familiar with the matter. The inquiries are preliminary and the agency hasn’t opened …

UK Data Protection Watchdog Warns Companies Over AI Use and Privacy

Britain’s data protection watchdog warned companies to consider people’s privacy rights whenever they use artificial intelligence (AI) or face not just fines but losing the public’s trust in the technology. The country’s Information Commissioner, John Edwards, said at a speech …

London’s Insurance, Finance Workers to See Biggest AI Impact: UK Report

Management consultants and City of London finance workers are among those most exposed to workplace changes ushered in by artificial intelligence, a new UK government report found, urging changes in schools and training programs to ease the impact. Jobs in …

US, Britain, Other Countries Ink Agreement to Make AI ‘Secure by Design’

The United States, Britain and more than a dozen other countries on Sunday unveiled what a senior U.S. official described as the first detailed international agreement on how to keep artificial intelligence safe from rogue actors, pushing for companies to …

Artificial Intelligence Not Main Cause of Recent Insurance Layoffs: AM Best

AM Best does not believe artificial intelligence is the main cause of recent insurance industry layoffs. In commentary released today, the credit rating agency wrote that “it is too soon to cite AI as the leading cause of the job …

Putting AI to Work Within the ‘Digital Round Trip’: Applied Systems CEO

The data is out there. The challenge is how to amass it, standardize it and make it useful. Taylor Rhodes, CEO of Applied Systems, stopped by the On Point podcast with host Peter Aartrijk to talk about the future of …