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A new spinout from MIT called Liquid AI is developing artificial intelligence apps. The founders are (left to right) chief executive Ramin Hasani, MIT professor and technical adviser Daniela Rus, chief scientific officer Alexander Amini, and chief technical officer Mathias Lechner.

Boston’s answer to ChatGPT? MIT spinoff Liquid AI has a radical new approach.

Amid rising competition in artificial intelligence, a startup formed by MIT researchers has launched with new money and a model inspired by the brain of a roundworm.

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Europe was set to lead the world on AI regulation. But can leaders reach a deal?

Europe’s yearslong efforts to draw up AI guardrails have been bogged down by the recent emergence of generative AI systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

AI’s future could be ‘open-source’ or closed. Tech giants are divided as they lobby regulators.

Safety is at the heart of the debate, but so is who gets to profit from AI's advances.

For iRobot and Amazon, European antitrust roadblock is just one hurdle

Amazon agreed to acquire the Bedford-based home robotics company 16 months ago, but the deal is still pending. What gives?

The climate summit embraces AI, with reservations
The hope for AI breakthroughs in the fight against rising global temperatures flows from the technology’s ability to process vast quantities of information.

Brazilian city enacts an ordinance secretly written by AI
City lawmakers in Brazil passed what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — after they were kept in the dark about its unprecedented origin.

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‘In a shocking turn of events,’ AI program writes stories about Boston that are eerily good
In what feels like an instant, ChatGPT will answer the questions or spit out renditions of human-produced content, like legal analysis that some lawyers have said rivals that of actual practitioners.

Are chatbots useful tools, game changers, or a threat to democracy? All of the above, AI experts say.
The tech industry may be moving too fast to be able to distinguish between safe uses and dangerous applications, according to experts in AI and security.

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Is ChatGPT liberal or conservative? Depends who you ask.
The question has become a big deal with some conservatives, who argue that the system’s answers to political questions reflect the left-wing culture of Silicon Valley.

We asked AI to plan the perfect Boston day. Here’s where it took us.
A new artificial intelligence-powered website, Forgemytrip, is designed to build customized travel itineraries. So we put it to the test.

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After launching last November, ChatGPT became one of the fastest-growing online applications ever. And one year later, it attracts about 100 million users each week.

ChatGPT launched one year ago. Here’s what we’ve learned about AI and the future.

OpenAI's chatbot took the world by storm last November. But it will take much longer to understand generative AI's impact, its risks, its vast capacity for error, and the downsides of relying on machines to do our thinking and communicating for us. 5:22 p.m.

Tech executives at Microsoft and Amazon have dropped out of an upcoming software conference after at least one of the women on the agenda turned out to be fake.

Fake AI-generated woman on tech conference agenda leads Microsoft and Amazon execs to drop out

DevTernity organizer Eduards Sizovs admitted on social media that one of the featured speakers was an “auto-generated” woman with a fake title. 8:23 a.m.

A George Mason University fan holds up a Sports Illustrated magazine.

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

The once-powerful publication said it was firing a company that produced articles for its website written under the byline of authors who apparently don't exist. But it denied a published report that stories themselves were written by an artificial intelligence tool. 7:31 p.m.

Amazon introduces Q, an AI chatbot for companies

Amazon Q aims to help employees with daily tasks, such as summarizing strategy documents, filling out internal support tickets, and answering questions about company policy. 6:41 p.m.

European regulators said Monday that Amazon’s proposed acquisition of robot vacuum maker iRobot may harm competition.

EU regulators say Amazon’s acquisition of Bedford-based vacuum maker iRobot may harm competition

If the deal goes through, The European Commission said Amazon may be incentivized to prevent competitors from selling their products on its marketplace or making it difficult for them to do so. 5:15 p.m.

Lattice Mission Autonomy software by Anduril was demonstrated at the Air & Space Forces Association Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September in Oxon Hill, Md.

Pentagon’s AI initiatives accelerate hard decisions on lethal autonomous weapons

There is little dispute among scientists, industry experts and Pentagon officials that the US will within the next few years have fully autonomous lethal weapons. 1:35 p.m.

Bedford-based Roomba maker iRobot soars on report Amazon deal will win E.U. clearance

EU regulators are probing concerns that the takeover could thwart competitors by handing Amazon access to a new stash of user data. 4:00 p.m.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on Nov. 16 in San Francisco, California.

OpenAI’s new ‘initial’ board is all white, all male. Really?

With the return of Sam Altman as CEO, the neanderthal days of technology are back with a vengeance. 1:04 p.m.