James Strahler II pleads guilty to cyberstalking and producing AI-generated obscene images of child sexual abuse, making history as the first convicted under a new federal AI statute. The Take It Down Act prohibits non-consensual online publication of intimate visual depictions and AI forgeries.
Sam Altman's AI raises alarm in New Yorker feature, prompting urgent focus on climate crisis over other big issues. Guardian columnist questions future under threat of artificial general intelligence after reading alarming New Yorker piece.
AI company, Anthropic, unveils Claude Mythos model to expose software vulnerabilities, forming alliance with cybersecurity experts. Mythos reveals thousands of unpatched weaknesses in common applications, aiming to enhance defense against hacking.
Oxford's AI tool predicts heart failure risk 5 years in advance with 86% accuracy, aiding early intervention and prevention. Over 60 million worldwide have heart failure, making early detection crucial for better management and potential prevention.
Family of shooting victim plans to sue ChatGPT & OpenAI for allegedly advising shooter. Chatbot 'may have advised the shooter.'
The scikit Diabetes Dataset's target score is unpredictable, but other variables are. Six models failed to predict diabetes accurately.
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are becoming essential for daily decisions, from texting to cooking. They are seamlessly integrated into everyday life, assisting with various tasks and choices.
Residents of Rosedale are considering using the Flock system, an AI-powered surveillance system, to combat surging property crime in the wealthy neighborhood. Despite dropping crime rates in Toronto, home invasions in Rosedale have more than doubled the city average, prompting the need for innovative solutions like the "virtual gated community."
Scale AI, part-owned by Meta, pays workers to train AI using personal profiles and copyrighted content. Experts from various fields refine AI through Outlier, offering flexible work opportunities.
Amazon Bedrock Projects allow organizations to attribute inference costs to specific workloads, guiding optimization decisions. Users can set up Projects end-to-end, from tagging strategies to cost analysis.
Amazon Nova 2 Sonic offers state-of-the-art speech understanding for creating engaging AI-hosted podcasts in real-time, overcoming traditional production constraints. The model supports multilingual streaming speech understanding, tool invocation, and cross-modal interaction, revolutionizing content scalability and consistency in podcast production.
AI training offers hope to unemployed Americans with degrees and experience, like Patrick Ciriello, struggling in a tough job market. Ciriello found refuge in AI training after a year of unemployment, highlighting the impact of technology on job opportunities.
White House uses mix of real and fictional content in video of US-Israeli strikes on Iran. Iran responds with AI-generated attacks on Tel Aviv and US bases.
MIT researchers have developed Sandook, a software system that boosts storage device performance by handling three sources of variability simultaneously. Sandook nearly doubles performance in tasks like AI model training, increasing data center efficiency without requiring specialized hardware.
MIT.nano's START.nano program has doubled its new startup intake, supporting ventures in health, energy, semiconductors, and quantum computing. Participants gain access to MIT's facilities and innovation ecosystem to accelerate their journey from lab to market.