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UK government's AI copyright bill controversy

UK gov't pledges economic impact assessment to address concerns from MPs, peers, and creatives like Paul McCartney. Proposal criticized by McCartney, Tom Stoppard, Kate Bush for AI companies to use copyright-protected work without permission.

Mastering the Art of Noise

The diffusion model, pioneered by Sohl-Dickstein et al. and further developed by Ho et al., has been adapted by OpenAI and Google to create DALLE-2 and Imagen, capable of generating high-quality images. The model works by transforming noise into images through forward and backward diffusion processes, maintaining the original image's dimensionality in the latent space.

Optimizing with PSO and EO

Algorithm combining PSO with EO, EPSO, performs similarly to PSO and EO, not significantly better. Slow for practical use, but shows promise in training a KRR prediction system.

Thinktank warns UK on AI laws

Tony Blair Institute advises UK to relax copyright laws for AI innovation, warns of strain on US relations and potential tariffs. Enforcing stricter licensing rules may threaten national security interests, says thinktank.

Mastering GitHub Actions for Data Workflow Automation

GitHub Actions, a CI/CD tool, is not just for software - it automates data workflows, from setting up environments to deploying ML models. Free and easy to use, it offers pre-built actions and community support for automating tasks within repositories.

Adapting Graph Neural Networks: GraphSAGE in Action

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and Graph Attention Networks (GATs) have limitations with large graphs and changing structures. GraphSAGE offers a solution by sampling neighbors and using aggregation functions for faster and scalable training.

Centralizing AI Model Inference: The Key to Efficiency

AI models are replacing traditional algorithms in algorithmic pipelines due to their higher resource requirements. Centralized inference servers may improve efficiency in processing large-scale inputs through deep learning models, as shown in a toy experiment using a ResNet-152 image classifier on 1,000 images.

OpenAI Secures Record-Breaking Deal with SoftBank

OpenAI partners with SoftBank to achieve 'artificial super intelligence' surpassing human capabilities, raising $40bn in the largest startup funding round ever. The collaboration aims to advance AI research towards AGI, emphasizing the necessity of significant computing power.

Pattie Maes Honored with Lifetime Research Award

MIT's Pattie Maes awarded 2025 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award for human-computer interaction contributions, advocating for human-centered AI integration. Maes' pioneering work in software agents and wearable devices shapes today's online experience, emphasizing ethical design and human experience enhancement.