Japan’s Dai Nippon Printing has unexpectedly set its sights on a market where until now one name has reigned supreme — ASML. The Dutch company controls around 90% of the global lithography equipment market and effectively holds a monopoly on EUV scanners, without which the most advanced chips are impossible. All modern electronics — from AI data centers to smartphones — quite literally depend on a single company and its machines.
Dozens of attorneys general across the United States have sent warning letters to major artificial intelligence companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and others — demanding explanations regarding system safety, data protection, safeguards against misuse, and the prevention of false or harmful AI-generated content.
The Japanese startup Integral AI has announced that it has created the “world’s first AGI-capable model.” According to a company representative, the team has achieved one of the ultimate goals of artificial intelligence development: enabling their AI model to learn new tasks “without pre-existing datasets or human intervention.”
Large language models (LLMs) that already assist physicians and patients with medical questions can still generate severely harmful advice in a sizable percentage of real cases, according to a new multi-center preprint introducing the NOHARM safety benchmark.