A new crop of nefarious chatbots with names like “BadGPT” and “FraudGPT” are springing up on the darkest corners of the web, as cybercriminals look to tap the same artificial intelligence behind …
AI Warfare Becomes Real for US Military With Project Maven
On a summer evening in 2020 at Fort Liberty, a sprawling US Army installation in North Carolina, soldiers from the 18th Airborne Corps pored over satellite images on the computers in their command …
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Figure AI rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation
Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s been raising more money than God. The Bay Area-based robotics firm announced a $675 million. The Series B values the startup at $2.6 billion …
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Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training
Tumblr and WordPress are reportedly set to strike deals to sell user data to artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Midjourney. 404 Media reports that the platforms’ parent company, Automattic, …
Samsung unveils new memory chip with ‘highest-capacity to date’ for AI
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday said it has developed a new high-bandwidth memory chip that has the “highest-capacity to date” in the industry. The South Korean chip giant claimed the HBM3E 12H “raises …
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India completes critical test for Gaganyaan flight crewed by humanoid robot later this year
India is steadily inching toward the first uncrewed flight in its human spaceflight program, Gaganyaan (Sanskrit for "celestial vehicle"). Early last week, the nation's space agency successfully …
Apple just killed its electric car project, shifting focus to generative AI
Apple is canceling one of its open secret projects -- building an autonomous electric car, and shifting most of the 2,000 employees working on it to focus on generative AI efforts instead. The …
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Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’
The historically inaccurate images and text generated by Google’s Gemini AI have “offended our users and shown bias,” CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. Last …
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Damaged Subsea Cable in Red Sea Highlights Telecom Vulnerability
A subsea cable off the coast of Yemen that connects Europe to India has been damaged, and the telecommunications carrier that owns it must now figure out how to make underwater repairs in a war zone. …
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GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise hits general availability
GitHub today announced the general availability of Copilot Enterprise, the $39/month version of its code completion tool and developer-centric chatbot for large businesses. Copilot Enterprise includes …
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