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3 more news organizations file lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft

Three news organizations, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet, have filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging copyright infringement related to the AI language model ChatGPT training. The lawsuits claim that ChatGPT reproduces “verbatim or nearly verbatim copyright-protected works of journalism” without proper attribution, including author, title, […]

President Biden Blocks Mass Transfer of Personal Data to High-Risk Nations

U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of concern. The Executive Order also “provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans’ sensitive data,” the White House said in a statement. This includes sensitive information such as genomic data, biometric […]

MWC 2024: 5G momentum on a roll with 1.6 billion connections worldwide

New figures from GSMA Intelligence (GSMAi) released today at MWC Barcelona 2024 reveal that 5G connections are expected to represent over half (51 per cent) of mobile connections by 2029. Authors of the report note that 5G has been the fastest mobile generation rollout to date, surpassing one billion connections by the end of 2022, rising to […]

MWC 2024: Intel adds AI processors, launches the new vPro platform

Intel yesterday launched its commercial line of Intel Core Ultra processors featuring NPUs (neural processing units) to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) at MWC Barcelona 2024. The processors, whose consumer versions were announced in December, include the new Intel vPro platform that the company said, offers productivity gains as well as enhanced security and new manageability […]

MWC 2024: Ontario startup collaborates with Intel to advance Open RAN solutions

Bluewaves Mobility Innovation (BMI), a North York-based startup that specializes in ORAN (open radio access networks) solutions, this week announced a partnership with Intel at MWC 2024 in Barcelona. ORAN is a nonproprietary version of the Radio Access Network (RAN) system that allows interoperation between various pieces of cellular network equipment provided by different vendors, […]