Is Microsoft Copilot the New Clippy? Early Signs Raise Concern
Microsoft’s Copilot was supposed to revolutionize workplace productivity. Instead, six months after launch, adoption rates are raising alarms—and some critics, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, are calling it “Clippy 2.0.” Despite massive investment and rollout across Microsoft’s Office suite, early adoption has been underwhelming. Microsoft knows this, seeing that the usage of Copilot rose to […]
Elon Musk Defends Deep Fakes With Lawsuit
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s 2023 law that criminalizes the use of AI-generated “deepfakes” intended to influence elections or harm candidates. The law imposes penalties, including jail time, for creating or distributing realistic fake media within specific election-related time frames. X argues that the law […]
Anthropic Aims to Demystify AI Black Boxes by 2027
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has announced a bold plan: to make the inner workings of AI models significantly more transparent by 2027. The initiative targets one of the biggest unsolved problems in artificial intelligence—the “black box” mystery of how models reach their conclusions. In a recent essay, Amodei stressed that while today’s AI models like […]
