NIST: VisionLabs, IDEMIA, and CloudWalk lead in facial recognition accuracy

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08.10.2025

A report from the US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reveals the accuracy of various facial recognition algorithms. The latest edition of the report currently has VisionLabs, IDEMIA, and CloudWalk in the lead: Higher numbers are better as they indicate a lower prevalence of false positives. The...

OpenAI upgrades GPT-3 with impressive new skills

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06.10.2025

OpenAI’s latest upgrade for GPT-3 has given the generalised language model some impressive new creative skills. This week, OpenAI released a new text model (text-davinci-003) for GPT-3. Researchers have been playing around with the model...

Google will leapfrog rivals with AI event next week

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02.10.2025

Google is holding an AI event next week to make some announcements ahead of rivals. The web giant says the event will provide an update on how Google is “using the power of AI to...

Sam Altman, OpenAI: ‘Lucky and humbling’ to work towards superintelligence

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19.09.2025

Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, has shared candid reflections on the company’s journey as it aims to achieve superintelligence. With ChatGPT recently marking its second anniversary, Altman outlines OpenAI’s achievements, ongoing challenges, and...

DeepSeek to open-source AGI research amid privacy concerns

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12.09.2025

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup aiming for artificial general intelligence (AGI), announced plans to open-source five repositories starting next week as part of its commitment to transparency and community-driven innovation. However, this development comes against...

OpenAI co-founder’s Safe Superintelligence Inc secures $1B

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11.09.2025

Just three months after its inception, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a new AI startup founded by OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, has raised $1 billion in funding. Led by venture capital firms Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz, the...

AI21 Labs raises $64M to help it compete against OpenAI

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08.09.2025

AI21 Labs has raised $64 million in a funding round to help it compete against OpenAI and other NLP leaders. Competition in NLP (Natural Language Processing) is heating up. OpenAI is currently seen as the...

Coalition of news publishers sue Microsoft and OpenAI

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22.08.2025

A coalition of major news publishers has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, accusing the tech giants of unlawfully using copyrighted articles to train their generative AI models without permission or payment. First reported...

MHRA pilots ‘AI Airlock’ to accelerate healthcare adoption

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21.08.2025

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced the selection of five healthcare technologies for its ‘AI Airlock’ scheme. AI Airlock aims to refine the process of regulating AI-driven medical devices and help...

7 top free AI coding tools

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20.08.2025

AI coding tools leverage machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing to assist developers in writing and optimising code. These tools are trained on vast code repositories and datasets, allowing them to analyse programming...