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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

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On June 5, a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting was asked to approve a $500,000 contract between the county ...

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

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All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source ...

Bank of England warns AI-based trading could create sudden, unpredictable stock market swings.

Autonomous AI Could Wreak Havoc on Stock Market, Bank of England Warns

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The stock market is already an unpredictable place, and now the Bank of England has warned that the adoption of ...

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

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Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but the latest models still ...

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For

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As well as CSAM, Fowler says, there were AI-generated pornographic images of adults in the database plus potential “face-swap” images. ...

If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

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When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in ...

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

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Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine learning trick that can ...

Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers

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Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes ...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

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Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are ...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work

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Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was ...