LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Fines imposed by Russian courts on Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) and YouTube, Meta (META.O), TikTok and Telegram appear to have been settled as the companies are no longer registered as debtors in the state bailiffs' database.

OpenAI has launched its new GPT Store providing users with access to custom AI assistants.

Jan 3 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of knowingly letting scammers exploit its gift cards, and keep stolen funds for itself.

US newspaper alleges tech companies took ‘free-ride’ on millions of articles to help build generative AI chatbots

Homes aren’t getting cheaper — or necessarily easier to secure.
This year, the median household income for home buyers jumped to $107,000 from $88,000 last year, according to the National Association of Realtors. The volume of homes for sale in the U.S. reached a record a low, meanwhile — and shows no sign of recovery.
Now, one might argue the increasing price and interrelated decreasing supply of homes are positive trends, in fact, because they could push families toward more environmentally friendly, sustainable alternatives. Studies show that single-family suburbs contribute significant greenhouse gas emissions while discouraging affordable new housing.

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.

PASADENA, Calif. - The world's first fully autonomous restaurant is set to open in Southern California.

While they lag behind their U.S. counterparts, their focus on non-English. languages could help loosen the American grip on artificial intelligence.ChatGPT, Bard, Claude. The world’s most popular and successful chatbots are trained on data scraped from vast swaths of the internet, mirroring the cultural and linguistic dominance of the English language and Western perspectives. This has raised alarms about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence. There is also the worry that the technology will remain the province of a handful of American companies.

Grace Zheng, Data Analyst at Canon and Founder of Kosh Duo, recently sat down for an interview with AI News during AI & Big Data Expo Global to discuss integrating AI ethically as well as provide her insights around future trends.

These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections.