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IS AI MORE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT THAN HUMANS ARE?
A group of European scientists recently put leading AI models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI through a battery of commonly used tests of emotional intelligence (EI).
ZUCKERBERG DISCUSSES DETAILS OF META’S AI PUSH
Last week, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a restructuring of his company’s AI operations around a push to create an AI "superintelligence" that can outperform humans in virtually all fields.
TOP EUROPEAN CEO’S ASK EU TO PAUSE LAW GOVERNING AI
The chief executives of 44 major European corporations, including Airbus, BNP Paribas, and Philips, have signed a letter to European Union (EU) president Ursula von der Layen, urging the union to pause for two years its landmark law governing AI set to take effect next month.
U.S. SENATE SCRAPS PLAN TO BLOCK STATES FROM REGULATING AI
By a vote of 99 to one, the U.S. Senate deleted from Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax and spending bill a measure that would have prevented individual states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for 10 years.
AI DEEPFAKES ARE ERODING TRUST IN POLITICAL PROCESSES
AI’s ability to create fake photos, videos, and voice knockoffs has progressed to the point where it has begun to sway election outcomes, experts told The New York Times.
THE ENDPOINT OF TECHNOCRACY
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says humans will soon live with a 24/7 AI companion. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting people will wear it as part of an augmented reality experience in some version of AR “smart” glasses that will supplant smartphones.
META PREVAILS IN COPYRIGHT SUIT BROUGHT BY AUTHORS
Using the text of millions of online books to train its AI models without compensating or acknowledging the books’ authors is “fair use” under U.S. copyright law, according to a 25 June federal court ruling.
OPENAI SNAGS $200-MILLION DEFENSE CONTRACT
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity,” has signed a one-year, $200-million contract with the U.S. defense department to “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the department said in a press announcement.
SOFTBANK PROPOSES $1-TRILLION AI HUB IN ARIZONA
Softbank Group, Japan’s tech megafunder, is exploring the prospect of a trillion-dollar investment to create an industrial complex in Arizona for building robots and developing advanced AI models.