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Elliptic, the analytical company, has released a report on the application of AI in crypto asset crimes.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is investigating Microsoft for potentially trying to circumvent antitrust regulations in its $650 million acquisition of AI startup Inflection AI. The agency has requested pertinent documents and is conducting a preliminary review.

Microsoft has disabled the default activation of the Recall feature, which records all user actions as screenshots for AI purposes. The developers plan to enhance encryption and make it more difficult to access the collected information, which is currently protected only by the computer’s password.

Over the past three months, OpenAI has disrupted five influence operations (IO) where unidentified users misused the company's products for unauthorized activities including generating fake content and political manipulation. These operations predominantly involved creating brief comments, articles in various languages, and text translations.

There's a price war in the Chinese semiconductor market, with Nvidia taking on Huawei.

French AI developer H has raised $220 million, including investments from venture capitalists, to establish the next generation of artificial intelligence. Among the investors are notable companies like Amazon, Samsung, and even Google's technical advisor, Eric Emerson Schmidt.