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A Canadian court has ordered Air Canada to partially refund the cost of tickets ($482) and pay the legal fees of Jake Moffatt due to misleading information provided by the airline's AI chatbot. The client sought discounted tickets due to a family death and consulted the AI for details.

Cybersecurity experts at Singapore's Group-IB have uncovered GoldPickaxe, a new trojan preying on iOS users. The trojan harvests a range of data, from personal and financial details to biometric information, later used in AI-generated deepfakes.

Google has unveiled the AI Opportunity Initiative for Europe, bolstering the region with a €25 million investment.

Apple has dedicated the last year to the development of an AI coding tool. This new instrument, aimed at surpassing Microsoft's Copilot, will become part of the Xcode programming software. Xcode is used for creating applications across all major Apple systems: macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

Google has launched Gemini 1.5, the latest version of its language model. Initially targeting corporate users and developers, Gemini 1.5 is set to eventually become accessible to the broader public. The new model significantly outperforms its previous version, showing almost a 100% improvement in tests.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a pivotal location for trialing artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies. He expressed this viewpoint during a virtual meeting with the UAE’s Minister of Artificial Intelligence.

In San Francisco's Chinatown, a group of people attacked a Waymo driverless car (AI taxi). They smashed its windshield and covered it in spray paint, before setting it on fire with fireworks. Despite the swift arrival of the fire department, the vehicle was beyond saving.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has called for up to $7 trillion in investments to establish infrastructure for manufacturing artificial intelligence chips, addressing the severe global shortage. He has shared this proposal with both the government and business leaders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).