Amazon is working to regain its position in the rapidly advancing artificial intelligence landscape as it faces increasing competition from tech giants like Microsoft, Google and OpenAI. While Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant once dominated the market, the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has reshaped the AI race, leaving the company working to catch up. Amazon’s AI…

A 90s classic toy is catching the attention of a new generation. Tamagotchi, the egg-shaped virtual pet is making a sales comeback. The pocket-sized digital devices, owned by Bandai Namco, are once again flying off the shelves, with global sales more than doubled between 2022 and 2023. For the first time ever, the company has…

A conservative commentator who used artificial intelligence to create a parody video of Vice President Kamala Harris is suing California, arguing that recent laws banning AI-generated political content violate his constitutional rights. Christopher Kohls, known online as “Mr. Reagan,” filed the lawsuit after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation aimed at curbing the spread of digitally…

Nintendo and the Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Tokyo against Pocketpair, accusing the video game maker of patent infringement. Pocketpair is the company behind the popular survival adventure video game “Palworld,” known by fans as “Pokémon with guns.” In a statement released Thursday, Sept. 19, Nintendo said, “This lawsuit seeks an…

Oprah Winfrey recently aired a special all about AI, titled “AI and the Future of Us.” After noting that “AI is still beyond our control,” Winfrey said humans will be able to adapt, saying, “The stakes could not be higher.” The comments came with guests including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, tech influencer Marques Brownlee and…

Several big tech companies have committed to removing nude images from AI training datasets. The news is in response to the Biden administration’s call for action. Companies including Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, and OpenAI have pledged to implement what they call responsible sourcing practices and incorporate feedback loops to guard against the output of image-based…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Thursday, Sept. 12, that it has authorized “the first over-the-counter hearing aid software device” for individuals with “mild to moderate” hearing loss as part of a feature announced by Apple for its second generation of its AirPods Pro. The move could be a game changer for…

Australia is weighing how to best regulate artificial intelligence with lawmakers considering an overhaul of privacy laws following the revelations about Meta’s data collection practices. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, admitted to using public data from millions of Australian users without permission to train its AI models. The admission includes nearly two decades’ worth of posts,…

AI has become more common in education, and a new study asks the question, does it help students learn? The study’s authors conducted an experiment with high school students, and the findings suggest the answer is not simple. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested Turkish high school students using ChatGPT on math practice problems.…

A little more than a month ago, the Ukrainian military showed that it was not afraid to take the fight to Russia on Russian soil. The offensive push into Kursk Oblast caught Vladimir Putin and the rest of the world by surprise, and Russia is still trying to muster forces to mount a viable defense…