In the rush to build AI apps, please, please don't leave security behind Supply-chain attacks are definitely possible and could lead to data theft, system hijacking, and more
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company's board, along with three new members PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW
An engine that can conjure thrust from thin air? We speak to the designer Chatting to Anmol Taploo about the race to develop tech for satellites
Nano a nono: Pixel 8 phones too dumb for Google's smallest Gemini AI model Some might say a blessing in disguise
AI mishaps are surging – and now they're being tracked like software bugs The Register speaks to the folks behind the AI Incident Database
Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve
Twitter's ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M Musk playbook described as 'Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him'
Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini Boasts of 'near-human levels of comprehension and fluency'
Cruise's valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built 'too-woke' AI, and more
The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out 'Farewell' snap revealed by Intuitive Machines amid hope solar-powered craft may one day spring to life again
Stack Overflow to charge LLM developers for access to its coding content No more freebies – Google signs up to improve Gemini's programming abilities
AI to fix UK Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling, deputy PM bets 'Computer-says-no' to be replaced by summaries written by LLMs trained on government data
Uncle Sam explores satellites that can create propellant out of thin air Very low Earth orbit birds could sip the outer atmosphere on their way up
OpenAI sued, again, for scraping and replicating news stories The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet want damages and to have their content removed from models
Europe probes Microsoft's €15M stake in AI upstart Mistral Cash-for-Azure-access deal went through just as latest LLM landed
OpenAI claims New York Times paid someone to 'hack' ChatGPT Super lab alleges 'deceptive prompts' that it happily processed - and may have tracked - weren't fair, so case should be dismissed
US military pulls the trigger, uses AI to target air strikes People still make the final decision, but recent raids in Iraq and Syria had help
Meta to build election operations center in Europe to inspect AI content Fact-checkers will label AI-generated media for upcoming EU elections
Google to reboot Gemini image gen in a few weeks after that anti-White race row While you wait, Android devices will start to use gen AI to do stuff like summarize group chats
Man admits to paying magician $150 to create anti-Biden robocall Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics
Microsoft trying to stop Copilot generating fake Putin comments on Navalny's death Plus: US Department of Justice has hired its first chief AI officer
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
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus prepares for Moon landing It slides into orbit. Now comes (another) hard part
Pentagon enlists Scale AI to help military get smarter This technology is all the rage right now, still too risky for armed forces
Going with the flow makes AI better at solving coding problems Careful prompting can beat training a model from scratch
OpenAI tries to trademark 'GPT'. US patent office says nope Plus: How you can set up your own AI chatbot on your device, and more
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
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
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
Slack adds AI to help users cope with chat overload Summarizes threads you just can't keep up with and beefs up search
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
Judge crosses out some claims by writers against OpenAI, lets them have another crack at it Scribes may have a point about unfair competition, direct copyright infringement
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
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
Neural networks are reportedly helping criminals create cheap virtual fake IDs online Plus: Computer scientists win $700k in AI competition to decipher ancient scrolls destroyed in Mount Vesuvius eruption, and more
Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly
NASA finally launches PACE Earth science satellite 'New era of ocean science' hoped to follow debut of billion-dollar plankton-spotter
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
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
CERN is training robot dogs to spot radiation hazards at Large Hadron Collider CERNquadbot can go off the rails – unlike science org's existing inspector bots
OpenAI latest to add 'Made by AI' metadata to model work Content Credentials: It's better than nothing™
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
America's broadband bill subsidy runs out of money and halts enrollments Program that gets the hard-up online needs money by May
Meta to try 'cutting edge' AI detection on its platforms - asking people to add labels Will apply 'penalties if they fail to do so'
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
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
Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments Plus: Another lawyer is in trouble for citing fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT, and more
The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam The only thing worse than a telemarketer is a robo-telemarketer
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
Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes You could say this was tailored for Swift
DeepMind AI helps cook up 'novel' compounds – with sides of controversy Published report 'should be retracted as the main claim of discovery is wrong', UCL chemistry professor tells us
OpenAI's GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails 'Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a' thogail le stuthan taighe'
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
Cruise being investigated over car crash that dragged victim along the road Plus: George Carlin's family suing creators who used AI to rip off his comedy, and more
If you use AI to teach you how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself Computer science teachers, software experts share their advice on ML assistants
FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power Startups hoping to compete in the industry face an uphill battle
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
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
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
OSIRIS-REx's stuck asteroid sample canister finally cracked open by NASA Space eggheads invent tools just to get that precious dust
Robocaller spoofing Joe Biden is telling people not to vote in New Hampshire Meanwhile, OpenAI is hiring an 'elections program manager' for $190,000+
Boffins eyeball computer vision costs, find humans are cheaper for oversight chores AI can only automate parts of some jobs, and the kit required is too pricey
Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman ALSO: Google's geometry reasoning breakthrough; Amazon debuts experimental shopping AI
Zuckerberg wants to build artificial general intelligence with 350K Nvidia H100 GPUs Maybe the AGI can finish that Metaverse, haha – oh wait, they're serious
FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device that's just a teensy bit tricorder-ish Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans
Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators' rights 'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption
Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing's market share? Oh, wait, never mind Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers
Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now CEOs believe generative AI will make their companies more efficient, but more energy is needed to power the tech
Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal Series 9 and Ultra 2 models cannot be imported to the US starting from 18 January
Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads
AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more
Google AI chatbot more empathetic than real doctors in tests No, that does not mean machines can replace primary care physicians
OpenAI tweaks its fine print, removes explicit ban on 'military and warfare' use Plus: It's difficult to make a bad LLM turn good; ELVIS Act seeks AI voice clone ban
Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content US senators want to know how chatbots represent an existential crisis to journalism and democracy
Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special Seven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever
