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Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews

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Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical adviceGoogle is putting people at risk of harm by downplaying safety warnings that its AI-generated medical advice may be wrong.When answering queries about sensitive topics such as health, the company says its AI Overviews, which appear above search results, prompt […]

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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back – podcast

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Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effortBy Rebecca Solnit. Read by Laurel Lefkow Continue reading…

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Attackers prompted Gemini over 100,000 times while trying to clone it, Google says

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On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various non-English languages, collecting responses ostensibly to train a cheaper copycat. Google published the findings in what amounts to a quarterly

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We let Chrome’s Auto Browse agent surf the web for us—here’s what happened

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We are now a few years into the AI revolution, and talk has shifted from who has the best chatbot to whose AI agent can do the most things on your behalf. Unfortunately, AI agents are still rough around the edges, so tasking them with anything important is not a great idea. OpenAI launched its

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State-sponsored hackers exploit AI for advanced cyberattacks

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State-sponsored hackers are exploiting AI to accelerate cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia weaponising models like Google’s Gemini to craft sophisticated phishing campaigns and develop malware, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The quarterly AI Threat Tracker report, released today, reveals how government-backed attackers have

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Will the Gulf’s push for its own AI succeed?

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Tech giants Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta to collectively invest $600bn on artificial intelligence this yearHello, and welcome to TechScape. Today in tech, we’re discussing the Persian Gulf countries making a play for sovereignty over their own artificial intelligence in response to an unstable United States. That, and US tech giants’ plans to spend more

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Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment

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Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond, stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year. The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter. Alphabet

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Apple and Google pledge not to discriminate against third-party apps

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Tech firms say they will be more transparent about vetting apps for app store in voluntary agreement with UK regulatorApple and Google’s commitment to avoid discriminating against apps that compete with their own products under an agreement with the UK’s competition watchdog have been labelled “lightweight”.The US tech companies have vowed to be more transparent

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Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

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Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the company’s AI has also driven billions of miles virtually, and there’s a lot more to come with the new Waymo World Model.

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Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea

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Last week, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s AI studio Primordial Soup and Time magazine released the first two episodes of On This Day… 1776. The year-long series of short-form videos features short vignettes describing what happened on that day of the American Revolution 250 years ago, but it does so using “a variety of AI tools” to

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