AI’s impact on elections is being overblown…

This year, close to half the world’s population has the opportunity to participate in an election. And according to a steady stream of pundits, institutions, academics, and news organizations, there’s a major new threat to the integrity of those elections…

UK clears Microsoft's partnership with Inflection AI

Britain's competition regulator, on Wednesday, cleared Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab hiring of some former staff of Inflection AI and its partnership with the startup and said the deal did not required a deeper investigation…

Exclusive: OpenAI co-founder Sutskever's new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion

Safe Superintelligence (SSI), newly co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in cash to help develop safe artificial intelligence systems that far surpass human capabilities…

Council of Europe opens first ever global treaty on AI for signature

The Council of Europe Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law was opened for signature during a conference of Council of Europe Ministers…

Research team proposes solution to AI's continual learning problem

A team of Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) researchers has revealed more about a mysterious problem in machine learning—a discovery that might be a major step towards building advanced AI that can function effectively in the real world…