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AI models have been going rogue in tests – how worried should we be?

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The UK’s AI Security Institute test revealed AI models indulging in unprecedented hacking attemptsAI models shock UK testers by using fake identities to trick developersTwo cutting-edge AI models have targeted real people and organisations in the latest safety scare to hit the technology. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) said the incident was unprecedented but […]

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Why I’ll never be convinced by Meta’s ‘pervert’ glasses | Opinion

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‘Most people don’t want pervert glasses that can film us without our consent,’ said a spokesperson from activist group Everyone Hates Elon. The group has launched a series of guerilla adverts deriding non-consensual filming by the glasses as well as an email campaign encouraging people to legally object to being filmed by Meta glasses under

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Darth Vader to become a TikTok star as Disney strikes deal on short video

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Iconic characters and memorable scenes from back catalogue made available to group of creator fansThe likes of Darth Vader, Spider-Man and Moana are about to become TikTok stars for the first time – at least now on an official basis – after Walt Disney struck a “first of its kind” deal with the booming short-video

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‘Leicester Square, please guv’: Self-driving taxis cleared for London streets ‘later this summer’

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Wayve Uber wins first minicab licence for autonomous cabs from TfL but vehicles will have a safety driver (at first)The taxi app company Uber and the autonomous technology developer Wayve have been granted the first minicab licences in London allowing them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers – but with a human safety

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Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech

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Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversyDarius Saczuk, a high school teacher, views artificial intelligence as his enemy. Earlier this year, he and several dozen New York City teachers spent the day inside a windowless conference room in downtown Manhattan to

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‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures

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‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to usersDanielle, 37, didn’t always have issues with body image: she used to be a model and recalls receiving positive attention from men. However, when two years of unemployment plunged her

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Why is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James

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The AI company apparently found destructively scanning ‘all the books in the world’ easier than dealing with copyright in its quest for training dataShould we destroy all the books in the world?An answer to this question can be found in the court documents of Bartz v Anthropic PBC. The northern California district court case, decided

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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

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As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable themIn April, Gil Durán was permanently banned from Elon Musk’s X for posting just two words. Durán was responding to a post from the

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OpenAI and Anthropic models ‘went rogue’ during UK cybersecurity test

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AI Security Institute says tools engaged in potentially harmful activity and incident reveals new type of riskAdvanced AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic went rogue during a cybersecurity test and showed a new type of risk posed by the technology, according to the UK’s AI Security Institute.AISI described the actions carried out by the

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NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1

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NVIDIA has released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B-parameter vision-language-action (VLA) model for autonomous driving, under an open commercial license. The stated design target is the long-tail events: rare, multi-agent situations that conventional detection-and-prediction stacks handle poorly. The model pairs a 32B VLM backbone, built on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner and post-trained with reinforcement learning,

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