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In recent weeks, prominent labs have called for a slowing of the AI advancement. Most dramatically, CEO Dario Amodei penned a nearly 4,000-word essay in which he laid out the case for why AI development should be…
Read moreFor years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws by stealing tons…
Read moreThe DoE announced its Quantum Genesis Q Competition, an initiative that it said in a request for applications on the program’s opportunity site aims to produce a first-generation fault tolerant, scientifically relevant…
Read moreIn one example uncovered during the investigation, a cop in Lake County, Indiana, searched over 19,000 cameras with the official justification being “LMAO”. “Police are routinely searching the Flock database without…
Read moreCalled the UN System Data Commons , the new system is built on Google’s open source Data Commons platform and lets people search for statistics from across UN agencies using natural-language queries. It replaces the…
Read moreAntitrust experts say that while the companies’ charged language isn’t necessarily doing them any favors, the unrestrained development of a rogue killer AI probably isn’t in line with the spirit of the Sherman Act, a key…
Read moreHowever, it looks like some folks are having issues with the app , with it only providing a streaming quality option that peaks at just 480p (via Android Authority ). Now, this would be strange on its own, but the…
Read morePer the lawsuit, a top Microsoft executive privately described the companies’ AI training practices as “theft,” and OpenAI’s own leadership said its AI models posed an “existential threat” to the publishers and…
Read moreThe technique, referred to as InjectEave, is not simply listening in on a low-frequency analog signal. It's an EM side-channel attack that overcomes one of the longstanding barriers to exploiting EM leakage: the…
Read moreThe EU AI Act already lists both the engineering risks he wants prioritised and the loss-of-control risks he dismisses, in the same recital. Andrew Ng has called warnings of existential AI risk “ much more science…
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