A US judge has ruled in favor of Thomson Reuters in a AI training fight against Ross Intelligence, a legal AI startup, according to The Verge. Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence in 2020 for using the company’s legal research platform Westlaw to train Ross Intelligence’s AI without permission. Westlaw indexes large amounts of non-copyrighted material,…
It’s already known that today’s generative AI (genAI) tools often have trouble with basic facts. Now, it’s clear they don’t well with current events either. That’s the upshot of a test by the BBC, which asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity to answer 100 questions using BBC articles as a source; more than half of…
Last night, Apple posted a new support document about migrating purchases between accounts, something that Apple users with long online histories have been waiting on for years, if not decades. If you have movies, music, or apps orphaned on various iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iTunes accounts that preceded what you’re using now, you can start the fairly involved process…
Reflecting the erosion of universality, Apple Intelligence will now be coming to China, but rather than working with a US AI partner, the company will use Chinese-made AI tech from Alibaba. According to The Information, Apple and Alibaba have already “submitted the co-developed features for approval to regulators.” The claim hasn’t yet been confirmed. If true, it would…
While Micro LED could address some of OLED’s limitations, it doesn’t have the recognition of OLED in the consumer market. Any company releasing Micro LED consumer products will have to educate shoppers about the benefits of the display technology and why it’s better than OLED or even cheaper options. As such, much of the Micro…
The release of the latest version of the Chinese genAI bot DeepSeek last month upended the tech world when its creators claimed it was built for only $6 million — far less than the hundreds of billions of dollars Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and others have poured into genAI development. The shockwaves were immediate. GenAI-related stocks took…
Windows 10 has less than a year left before it hits its end of support deadline. Starting in October 2025, you’ll have to pay for security updates if you want to keep using Microsoft’s nearly-nine-year-old operating system. That means now is the time to think about upgrading any Windows 10 PCs you’re still working with…
Look, if you’ve read this column for long now, you know I’m extremely guarded with my enthusiasm for Gemini and the other similar large-language-model AI answer-bots. Plain and simple, they just aren’t reliable as on-demand answer genies — despite being positioned as exactly that — and they’ve got a nasty habit of coughing up inaccurate…
Global enterprise technology spending is set to grow by 5.6% in 2025, reaching $4.9 trillion, as enterprises continue to prioritize investments in cybersecurity, cloud computing, generative AI, and digital transformation. North America and the Asia-Pacific region are projected to be the fastest-growing markets, while software and IT services are projected to account for 70% of…
It’s become increasing clear that quality plunges when moving from English to non-English-based large language models (LLMs). They’re less accurate and there’s a serious lack of transparency around data training, both in terms of data volume and data quality. The latter has long been a problem for generative AI (genAI) tools and platforms. But enterprises aren’t paying less…