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To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profiles here. Eva Maydell is a Bulgarian politician and a member of European Parliament. First elected to Parliament in 2014 at age 28, she was the youngest…

The European Parliament’s civil liberties (LIBE) and internal market (IMCO) committees have overwhelmingly endorsed draft legislation setting out a risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence. In a vote this morning the committees voted 71-8 (with 7 abstentions) in favor of the compromise negotiated with EU Member States at the back end of last year in lengthy three-way ‘trilogue’ talks. The EU AI Act, originally proposed by the Commission back in April 2021, sets rules for AI…

The European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based plan for regulating applications of artificial intelligence, has passed what looks to be the final big hurdle standing in the way of adoption after Member State representatives today voted to confirm the final text of the draft law. The development follows the political agreement reached in December — clinched after marathon ‘final’ three-way talks between EU co-legislators which stretched over several days. After that, the work to turn agreed positions on scrappy negotiation…

The most recent (and likely final) version of the impending European Union’s AI Act was recently leaked. This is the world’s first comprehensive law designed to regulate the use and application of artificial intelligence, and history shows that, when the EU regulates something, the rest of the world tends to adopt it. For example, companies doing business in Australia are typically GDPR-compliant, simply because European law requires them to be. The same will likely happen when the EU AI Act comes into power.…

Today, December 9, has become a monumental day in the artificial intelligence space as a major regulatory hurdle was crossed. After more than a year spent in debates, protests, and discussions, Europe has finally reached a provisional deal on landmark European Union (EU) rules governing the use of AI, popularly known as the AI Act. In other news, a poster on X highlighted that Grok, the xAI chatbot, leans left libertarian politically, after which Elon Musk responded that immediate steps would be taken to ensure the…

AI Roundup: Several notable developments took place in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) today, December 7. The EU's AI Act could exclude AI models that have an open-source license, according to a leaked compromise proposal seen by Reuters. In the US, despite AI implementation in drive-thru services by chains like Checkers and Carl's Jr., human involvement in fulfilling orders persists, accounting for over 70% of customer interactions in locations like the Philippines. On the other hand, Neverinstall introduced…

It's the first day of the last month of 2023, and we might be in for an exciting period in artificial intelligence space as companies continue developing this technology while protest groups keep highlighting its dangers. In the first news, Meta executives said that they found no downside to openly sharing its AI technology. This comes as the tech company keeps releasing open-source versions of its large language models. In other news, a group of visual artists has filed an amended lawsuit against text-to-image…

The European Union's attempt to standardize its regulatory framework on artificial intelligence gets a half-hearted response as many Asian countries decide to take up a wait-and-see approach. In other news, an Indian legal tech startup CaseMine has launched the nation's first AI-powered legal assistant called Amicus. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer look.CaseMine launches AI legal assistantA Delhi-NCR-based legal tech startup called CaseMine has launched India's first-ever AI-powered legal…

Yesterday, the biggest news in the artificial intelligence space was that top companies were pushing back on the European Union's AI act which was heavily focused on regulation and transparency of training data for AI models. Today, as we enter the weekend, things have lightened up a bit. The biggest news is the AI startup Humane, which has been working secretively so far, but has now revealed its clothing-based wearable AI gadget called AI pin. In other news, researchers have validated the first-ever AI biomarker for…

Every time a new technology with a wide scope of applications emerges, the music industry suffers one of the first blows. Be it compact discs, MP3 players, or websites capable of streaming/hosting songs, the music industry has always suffered the consequences and come out in protest. The biggest reason? Copyright issues. Music is one of the most vulnerable intellectual properties as it is very easy to pirate or steal, modify, and repackage to divert revenue from the artists and the record label.But so far, the industry…