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A new study from the AI Disclosures Project has raised questions about the data OpenAI uses to train its large language models (LLMs). The research indicates the GPT-4o model from OpenAI demonstrates a “strong recognition” of paywalled and copyrighted data from O’Reilly Media books. The AI Disclosures Project, led by technologist Tim O’Reilly and economist Ilan Strauss, aims to address the potentially harmful societal impacts of AI’s commercialisation by advocating for improved corporate and technological transparency. The project’s working paper highlights the lack of disclosure in AI, drawing parallels with financial disclosure standards and their role in fostering robust securities…

Are you a fan of the famed Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose Studio Ghibli made animated movies like “Spirited Away,” “Kiki’s Delivery Service” and “My Neighbor Totoro”?Last week, OpenAI released an update to ChatGPT that improved its image-generation technology. As a result, any user who asked the platform to render an image in the style of Studio Ghibli could be shown a picture that would not look out of place in those films.Soon, Ghibli-style images began flooding social media. Though many people posted selfies or family photos, some used the new feature to create renderings of violent or dark images,…

arXiv:2504.00883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Increasing attention has been placed on improving the reasoning capacities of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). As the cornerstone for AI agents that function in the physical realm, video-based visual-spatial intelligence (VSI) emerges as one of the most pivotal reasoning capabilities of MLLMs. This work conducts a first, in-depth study on improving the visual-spatial reasoning of MLLMs via R1-Zero-like training. Technically, we first identify that the visual-spatial reasoning capacities of small- to medium-sized Qwen2-VL models cannot be activated via Chain of Thought (CoT) prompts. We then incorporate GRPO training for improved visual-spatial reasoning, using the…

Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…

International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM – Get Free Report) had its price objective decreased by research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group from $270.00 to $265.00 in a research report issued to clients and investors on Monday,Benzinga reports. The firm currently has a “hold” rating on the technology company’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s price objective suggests a potential upside of 5.86% from the company’s current price. IBM has been the topic of several other research reports. Sanford C. Bernstein upped their price target on International Business Machines from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company a “market perform” rating in a research…

Image: Shutter2U/Adobe Stock An important focus of AI research is improving an AI system’s factualness and trustworthiness. Even though significant progress has been made in these areas, some AI experts are pessimistic that these issues will be solved in the near future. That is one of the main findings of a new report by The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), which includes insights from experts from various academic institutions (e.g., MIT, Harvard, and University of Oxford) and tech giants (e.g., Microsoft and IBM). The goal of the study was to define the current trends and the research…

Atombeam Inc., a startup developing a more efficient way of transmitting data, today announced that it has raised $20 million in funding. The investment was structured as a so-called Reg A+ round. This is a type of funding round in which capital is provided by members of the public rather than institutional investors. Atombeam says that the investment included more than 6,500 participants.  Moraga, California-based Atombeam develops a data transmission technology it dubs Data-as-Codewords. The software promises to reduce the storage footprint of files by up to 75% and thereby boost the speed at which they can be sent over…

Image: seventyfourimages/Envato Elements The EU is pouring €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) over the next two years to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. The funding will support the development and testing of “immersive environments” to apply in healthcare for purposes like training and virtual patient assessments. The investment will also support the implementation of the AI Act, which ensures all AI systems developed and used in the EU are done so safely and responsibly. Additionally, it will help build energy-efficient digital public digital infrastructure, including electric vehicle charging ports. Many of the generative AI models powering these initiatives will…

We dig into the implications of China-based DeepSeek’s rapid ascent on the AI infrastructure landscape, the private sector, and enterprise AI strategies. China’s DeepSeek has upended assumptions about what it takes to develop powerful AI models.  The AI company, which emerged from Liang Wenfeng’s hedge fund High-Flyer, released an open-source reasoning model (named R1) in January 2025 that rivals the performance of OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model. DeepSeek says it trained its base model with limited chips and about $5.6M in computing power — a fraction of the $100M+ US rivals have spent training similar models — thanks to some clever…

OpenAI says that it intends to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 “in the coming months.” That’s according to a feedback form the company published on its website Monday. The form, which OpenAI is inviting “developers, researchers, and [members of] the broader community” to fill out, includes questions like, “What would you like to see in an open-weight model from OpenAI?” and “What open models have you used in the past?” “We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible,” OpenAI wrote on its website.…