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In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind

Feature Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more

AI + ML17 Mar 2024 | 20

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members

AI in brief PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW

AI + ML11 Mar 2024 | 8

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

AI in brief Plus: US Department of Justice has hired its first chief AI officer

AI + ML26 Feb 2024 | 51

Reddit signs AI training deal with Google – and why OpenAI's Altman could be the winner

IPO docs drop showing just who has a stake in the forum

AI + ML22 Feb 2024 | 5

Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer

Your own personal chatbot awaits

Bootnotes22 Feb 2024 | 8

Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter

This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces

AI + ML21 Feb 2024 | 2

Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems

Interview Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch

AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 4

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

AI in brief Plus: How you can set up your own AI chatbot on your device, and more

AI + ML19 Feb 2024 | 17

Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others

Cool, but it's 2024 – needs more hype, hand wringing, and flashy staged demos to be proper ML

CSO17 Feb 2024 | 10

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once

Science16 Feb 2024 | 28

Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany

What's the wurst that could happen?

Off-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 10

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 94

Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload

Summarizes threads you just can't keep up with and beefs up search

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 3

OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things

You don't need us to craft phishing emails or write malware, super-lab sniffs

AI + ML15 Feb 2024 | 5

Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

Updated Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement

AI + ML14 Feb 2024 | 12

US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

You can use neural networks to help, sure, but not do all the work

AI + ML13 Feb 2024 | 15

Quarter of polled Americans say they use AI to make them hotter in online dating

Roses are red, violets are blue, a machine made my profile alluring to you

AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 26

Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs online

AI in brief Plus: Computer scientists win $700k in AI competition to decipher ancient scrolls destroyed in Mount Vesuvius eruption, and more

AI + ML12 Feb 2024 | 5

Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly

Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 46

NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite

'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter

Science09 Feb 2024 | 6

Google silences Bard, restrings it as Gemini with optional $20-a-month upgrade

Say Gemini again, I dare you. I double dare you. Say Gemini one more goddamn time

AI + ML09 Feb 2024 | 16

Microsoft seeks patent for tech to put words into your mouth

Remember that satnav that spoke like Homer Simpson? Now imagine AI doing that in any language, on any device

Software08 Feb 2024 | 26

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider

Vid CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots

Science08 Feb 2024 | 28

OpenAI latest to add 'Made by AI' metadata to model work

Content Credentials: It's better than nothing™

AI + ML08 Feb 2024 | 8

Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI

Everyone should be free to trust AI to make their financial decisions, without knowing if it's also used against them

AI + ML07 Feb 2024 | 28

America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments

Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May

Public Sector06 Feb 2024 | 11

Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels

Will apply 'penalties if they fail to do so'

AI + ML06 Feb 2024 | 9

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

The Future Circular Collider, if built, will be three times the size of the LHC

Science06 Feb 2024 | 102

Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes

Creeps on notorious bulletin board 4Chan reportedly decided to humiliate prominent women

AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 17

Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments

AI In Brief Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more

AI + ML05 Feb 2024 | 69

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer

Public Sector02 Feb 2024 | 38

OpenAI reassures: GPT-4 gives 'a mild uplift' to creators of biochemical weapons

Good to know that boffins can't easily prompt their way to new careers as supervillains

AI + ML01 Feb 2024 | 12

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

You could say this was tailored for Swift

AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 29

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy

Updated Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us

Science31 Jan 2024 | 8

OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails

'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe'

AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 52

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

Fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake ... time to fake it off

AI + ML30 Jan 2024 | 68

Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road

AI in brief Plus: George Carlin's family suing creators who used AI to rip off his comedy, and more

AI + ML29 Jan 2024 | 14

If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself

Feature Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants

AI + ML27 Jan 2024 | 23

FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power

Panel Startups hoping to compete in the industry face an uphill battle

AI + ML26 Jan 2024 |

AI dashcam slinger Samsara accuses rival Motive of corporate skullduggery

Lawsuit claims top execs made fake accounts to study and copy competing products for years

AI + ML24 Jan 2024 |

US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models

Launch National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource to help non-corporate boffins play catch-up

AI + ML24 Jan 2024 |

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

Man, 61, cuffed and allegedly attacked after 'faulty' AI software blundered

AI + ML24 Jan 2024 | 36

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In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members

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Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model

AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs

Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters

Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini

Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman

The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out

Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content

AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets

Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air

OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories

Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral

OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT

US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes

Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content

Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row

Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall

Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death

Reddit signs AI training deal with Google – and why OpenAI's Altman could be the winner

Google releases Gemma – LLMs small enough to run on your computer

Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter

Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems

OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope

Google open sources file-identifying Magika AI for malware hunters and others

OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount

Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload

OpenAI shuts down China, Russia, Iran, N Korea accounts caught doing naughty things

Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it

US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

Quarter of polled Americans say they use AI to make them hotter in online dating

Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs online

Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite

Google silences Bard, restrings it as Gemini with optional $20-a-month upgrade

Microsoft seeks patent for tech to put words into your mouth

CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider

OpenAI latest to add 'Made by AI' metadata to model work

Republican senators try to outlaw rules that restrict Wall Street’s use of AI

America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments

Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

Attempts to demolish guardrails in AI image generators blamed for lewd Taylor Swift deepfakes

Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments

The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam

OpenAI reassures: GPT-4 gives 'a mild uplift' to creators of biochemical weapons

Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes

DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy

OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road

If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself

FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power

AI dashcam slinger Samsara accuses rival Motive of corporate skullduggery

US govt, tech sector team up to get academia making its own next-gen AI models

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

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