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Nvidia is at the center of the artificial intelligence conversation after another blowout earnings season and a 10-to-1 stock split while competitors like Microsoft, Apple, and more continue to announce new AI-based offerings.

Judge considers sanctions against attorneys in prison case for using AI in court filings

A federal judge said Wednesday that she is considering sanctions against lawyers with a high-priced firm hired to defend Alabama’s prison system after ChatGPT was used to write two court filings that included nonexistent case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco held a hearing in Birmingham to question attorneys with the Butler Snow firm about the filings. Manasco said that nationally, there have been broad warnings from courts about the use of artificial intelligence to generate legal filings because of the potential for inaccuracies.

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Gemini Diffusion was the sleeper hit of Google I/O and some say its blazing speed could reshape the AI model wars

Google’s Gemini Diffusion demo didn’t get much airtime at I/O, but its blazing speed—and potential for coding—has AI insiders speculating about a shift in the model wars.

OpenAI teams up with former Apple design chief Jony Ive as AI race heats up

As OpenAI competes with tech giants such as Google, Meta and Apple, it's recruiting some of the most well-known figures in the tech industry.

What is AI Mode, Google's new artificial intelligence search tech?

Google is making more upgrades to its search engine with the addition of the AI Mode feature.

Google is banking on AI agents, smart glasses to defend its search crown

Google is looking for its next major hit to ensure it holds on to its leadership in search.

Industry leaders urge Senate to protect against AI deepfakes with No Fakes Act

Tech and music industry leaders testified about the dangers of deepfakes made with artificial intelligence on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would protect people's voices and likenesses from being replicated without consent, while allowing use of the tech responsibly. Speaking to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee's panel on privacy, technology, and the law, executives from YouTube and Recording Industry Association of America as well as country music singer Martina McBride, championed the bipartisan No Fakes Act, which seeks to create federal protections for artists’ voice, likeness and image from unauthorized AI-generated deepfakes. The group argued that Americans across the board — whether teenagers or high-profile music artists — were at risk of their likenesses being misused.

In lawsuit over teen's death, judge rejects arguments that AI chatbots have free speech rights

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected arguments made by an artificial intelligence company that its chatbots are protected by the First Amendment — at least for now. The developers behind Character.AI are seeking to dismiss a lawsuit alleging the company’s chatbots pushed a teenage boy to kill himself. The judge's order will allow the wrongful death lawsuit to proceed, in what legal experts say is among the latest constitutional tests of artificial intelligence.

Surge AI is latest San Francisco startup accused of misclassifying its workers

The artificial intelligence training platform Surge Labs Inc has been accused of deliberately misclassifying its workers, denying them key benefits afforded to employees.

Cogent, C3.ai, Teladoc, and Camping World Shares Plummet, What You Need To Know

A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the major indices pulled back (Nasdaq -1.3%, S&P 500 - 1.4%) as Treasury yields rose, reflecting market anxiety over a draft federal budget that could worsen the already wide US fiscal deficit.

Fictional fiction: A newspaper's summer book list recommends nonexistent books. Blame AI

The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. The content distributor King Features says it has fired a writer who used artificial intelligence to produce a story on summer reading suggestions that contained books that didn't exist. The list appeared in “Heat Index: Your Guide to the Best of Summer," a special section distributed in Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer last week.

Google, AI firm must face lawsuit filed by a mother over suicide of son, US court says

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide, a judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Anne Conway said the companies failed to show at an early stage of the case that the free-speech protections of the U.S. Constitution barred Megan Garcia's lawsuit. The lawsuit is one of the first in the U.S. against an AI company for allegedly failing to protect children from psychological harms.