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Understanding U.S. Copyright Office and AI Generated Content

January 30, 2025
In an important and helpful update issued today, the U.S. Copyright Office — which administers copyright protections from the government to human-authored works such as films, TV shows, novels, art, music, even software — clarified that some forms of AI-generated content can, in fact, receive copyright protection, provided that a human substantially contributed or changed the content in…
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Block: Jack Dorsey Launches Goose - Open-Source AI Framework

January 29, 2025
The bird-themed social network Twitter’s identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that isn’t stopped one of its co-founders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new project. Dorsey’s other company Block, the parent of point-of-sale service Square, mobile payments system Cash App, music streaming service Tidal, and other tech-driven financial tools, today…
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No retraining needed: Sakana’s new AI model changes how machines learn

January 28, 2025
Researchers at Sakana AI, an AI research lab focusing on nature-inspired algorithms, have developed a self-adaptive language model that can learn new tasks without the need for fine-tuning. Called Transformer² (Transformer-squared), the model uses mathematical tricks to align its weights with user requests during inference. This is the latest in a series of techniques that aim to improve the…
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Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek

January 28, 2025
As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015. Yet within the…
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Why ‘prosocial AI’ must be the framework for designing, deploying and governing AI

January 27, 2025
As AI pervades every sphere of modern life, the central challenge facing business leaders, policymakers and innovators is no longer whether to adopt intelligent systems but how. In a world marked by escalating polarization, resource depletion, eroding trust in institutions and volatile information landscapes, the critical imperative is to engineer AI so that it contributes meaningfully and…
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