Donald Trump’s rollback of basic guardrails for artificial intelligence leaves US workers “at real risk”, labor experts have warned. Protections introduced under Joe Biden to ensure the safe, secure and trustworthy development and use of AI were swiftly repealed by the Trump administration – as top…

Google Chrome has updated the existing "Enhanced protection" feature with AI to offer "real-time" protection against dangerous websites, downloads and extensions. As spotted by Leo on X, the update has been rolled out to Chrome’s stable channel on all platforms after three months of testing in…

The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI’s while spending orders of magnitude less money and using older chips is that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s data…

Microsoft’s AI red team is excited to share our whitepaper, “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” The AI red team was formed in 2018 to address the growing landscape of AI safety and security risks. Since then, we have expanded the scope and scale of our work significantly. We are…

Apple iPhone 16 models on display on September 20, 2024 at the Apple Store at The Grove in Los Angeles. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images/File New York CNN — Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent…

Paper: read the full paper here. Transcripts: We provide a list of cherry-picked transcripts here. System card: We worked with OpenAI to test o1 before public deployment. You can find the results in the o1 system card. Below, we provide a summary of the main findings. We evaluated six frontier…

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Google Project Zero IntroductionAt Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering, we're…

31st December 2024 A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past twelve months, plus my attempt at identifying key themes and pivotal moments. This is a sequel to my review of 2023. In this…

Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a livestreamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday.…

On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind of pornographic scenario they can dream of, trained on real images of real people scraped without consent from every corner of the internet. The “Erect Horse Penis - Concept…

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A new study by researchers at Dartmouth Health highlights the potential risks of artificial intelligence in medical imaging research, showing that algorithms can be taught to give correct answers but for illogical reasons. The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, used a cache of 5,000…

Poornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November. “I am not grieving,” she told a small group of friends at a vigil held…

Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants. Seth Larson, security developer-in-residence…

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists and whose intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content. AI slop has…

The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected. Prof Geoffrey Hinton, who this year was awarded…

Published December 26, 2024 | Comments (83) | OpenAI and Microsoft define AGI as AI software that can generate $100 billion in profit. Stefano Guidi/Getty OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial general intelligence, or any system that can outperform humans…

How many jobs will Artificial Intelligence replace in the next decade? Would ChatGPT replace writers? Would SORA AI displace video producers and content creators? Would Dall-E make artists obsolete? What does the future hold for jobs? Well, the answer might be a bit more complicated because everyone…

Yesterday was a big deal in AI. Or maybe it wasn’t. OpenAI revealed o3 in a 25 minute live demo, and its biggest fans thought the demo showed that it was either AGI or really close or an important step to AGI. (It certainly was not the long-awaited GPT-5). The best results were truly impressive,…

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Balaji worked at OpenAI for…

By Tyler Sorensen and Heidy Khlaaf We are disclosing LeftoverLocals: a vulnerability that allows recovery of data from GPU local memory created by another process on Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Imagination GPUs. LeftoverLocals impacts the security posture of GPU applications as a whole, with…

After spending the last few years embedded in AI-assisted development, I've noticed a fascinating pattern. While engineers report being dramatically more productive with AI, the actual software we use daily doesn’t seem like it’s getting noticeably better. What's going on here? I think I know why,…

Does aspartame cause cancer? The potentially carcinogenic properties of the popular artificial sweetener, added to everything from soft drinks to children’s medicine, have been debated for decades. Its approval in the US stirred controversy in 1974, several UK supermarkets banned it from their…

Every decade or so, a new playbook emerges that fundamentally reshapes how we think about scaling businesses. In the 2000s, Apple and Nvidia showed us how to separate IP from manufacturing. In the 2010s, Salesforce taught us how to turn software into a utility with the cloud. Now, in 2024, we're…

Join the club Thousands of top tech executives, journalists, academics and civil society workers read our reporting on — and analysis of — the day's biggest events at the intersection of technology and democracy. I. At the end of last month, I attended an inaugural conference in Berkeley named the…

With artificial intelligence on the rise, Cate Blanchett fears it poses a threat beyond just Hollywood. The 2x Oscar winner recently admitted she’s “deeply concerned” about the impact AI will have on the entertainment industry, as well as the rest of the world, with the potential to “totally replace…

An authentic picture of Elon Musk. Getty Images Artificial intelligence has so much to offer to society, but AI deepfakes are creating a multi-billion dollar criminal industry. AI-generated deepfakes, especially those featuring Elon Musk, are being used to trick consumers out of savings and more,…

When better to hold a conference on artificial intelligence and the countless ways it is advancing science than in those brief days between the first Nobel prizes being awarded in the field and the winners heading to Stockholm for the lavish white tie ceremony? It was fortuitous timing for Google…

The episode could have just been another footnote in the fast-unfolding history of artificial intelligence. But in hindsight, the release of Llama 2 marked a crucial crossroads for Meta and Zuckerberg—the beginning of a remarkable comeback, all thanks to tech named after a furry camelid. By the time…

In 2016, back when it still had a robust newsroom staffed with journalists, Buzzfeed published a feature article about empty nose syndrome, a rare condition that makes people feel like they are suffocating despite having a clear airway. The article opens with the heart-wrenching of Brett Helling,…

The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic said on Friday it had raised an additional $4bn investment from its longtime backer Amazon.com, bringing the e-commerce giant’s total investment to $8bn, underscoring big tech’s growing generative AI investments. Amazon will maintain its position as a…

As several major publishers sell their authors’ works to tech giants for large language model fodder, MIT Press is asking authors for their input before any training deals are made, and claims that it’s been approached by AI companies to do so. On November 7, MIT Press emailed its authors with the…

Investment giant Goldman Sachs published a research paper about the economic viability of generative AI which notes that there is “little to show for” the huge amount of spending on generative AI infrastructure and questions “whether this large spend will ever pay off in terms of AI benefits and…

Dell has made another round of layoffs, which The Register understands have cut deep and seen even company veterans let go. HR exit meetings kicked off on Tuesday morning, spurring a wave of LinkedIn status changes, while others found comfort venting or trading information in online forums. Dell…

NOTE 1: for reasons explained in my previous essay, I’ll replace the common use of the term ‘ransomware’ with ‘extortion’ in this essay. NOTE 2: Also, Allan Alford was kind enough to interview me on this topic on the excellent Cyber Ranch Podcast. I will be blunt because I don’t know how much time…