Back in 2020, Xayn was a privacy-based, on-device AI startup designed specifically for smartphones. But that early experience eventually saw the company pivot into developing sovereign AI for the legal sphere. Now Xayn has rebranded as Noxtua and raised a $92.2 million (roughly €81.2 million) Series B round. The round was led by strategic investor C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher. For context, C.H. Beck effectively owns the repository of all legal cases and judgments in Germany, giving it a unique position. The idea is that Noxtua will have access...

OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome if antitrust enforcers are successful in forcing the Alphabet GOOGL.O unit to sell the popular web browser as part of a bid to restore competition in search, an OpenAI executive testified on Tuesday at Google's antitrust trial in Washington. ChatGPT head of product Nick Turley made the statement while testifying at trial in Washington where U.S. Department of Justice seeks to require Google to undertake far-reaching measures restore competition in online search. The judge overseeing the trial found last year that Google...

An OpenAI exec said during Google’s antitrust trial this week that OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome browser, were it made available for sale. The executive, ChatGPT chief Nick Turley, said in a court hearing Tuesday that acquiring Chrome would allow OpenAI to “offer a really incredible experience” and “introduce users into what an AI-first [browser] looks like,” per Bloomberg. Turley had been called by the Justice Department to testify as part of a trial aimed at determining what business practices Google must modify after a judge found...

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman is stepping down as chairman of nuclear-energy startup Oklo OKLO 5.59 %increase; green up pointing triangle , opening up the opportunity for future deals between the companies.

Oklo said Tuesday that Altman would step down as chair, making it easier for the company to collaborate with OpenAI on future deals. Altman’s role on the board made partnership opportunities with the maker of ChatGPT more complex, the company said.

A China-based startup, Sand AI, has released an openly licensed video-generating AI model that’s garnered praise from entrepreneurs like Microsoft Research Asia founding director Kai-Fu Lee. But Sand AI appears to be censoring images that might raise the ire of Chinese regulators from the hosted version of the model, according to TechCrunch’s testing. Earlier this week, Sand AI announced Magi-1, a model that generates videos by “autoregressively” predicting sequences of frames.

OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said in a court hearing Tuesday.

“Yes, we would, as would many other parties,” Nick Turley, OpenAI’s ChatGPT chief said in response to a question about whether the company would seek to buy Google’s browser.

Alphabet’s Google contemplated deals with Android phone makers such as Samsung last year that would provide exclusivity for not only its search app, but also for its Gemini AI app and Chrome browser, according to a document shown at the second day of an antitrust trial. The Justice Department and a broad coalition of state attorneys general are seeking an order from a judge in Washington that would require Google to sell its Chrome browser and take other measures. They hope to end what the judge found was Google’s monopoly...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A study published in Physical Review Letters outlines a new approach for extracting information from binary systems by looking at the entire posterior distribution instead of making decisions based on individual parameters.

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: A group of computer scientists at Microsoft Research, working with a colleague from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced Microsoft's new AI model that runs on a regular CPU instead of a GPU. The researchers have posted a paper on the arXiv preprint server outlining how the new model was built, its characteristics and how well it has done thus far during...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Monday that films incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) will still be eligible for top Oscar awards under newly revised rules for voting and campaigning. According to the Academy, the use of generative AI or other digital tools will “neither advantage nor disadvantage” a film's chances of receiving a nomination. However, the organization reaffirmed its commitment to recognizing works with substantial human creative input.