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The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse Image, its most advanced image generator yet, and […]
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Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI may not reach a courtroom for years. It is already doing damage. When Apple sued OpenAI on Friday for stealing hardware trade secrets, the attention went to the lurid detail. There were “show and tell” interviews and an engineer who kept his work laptop. One even texted a colleague: “LOL, I […]
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Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of millions. By the end […]
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An idea that sounded radical a year ago is now a majority position. Nearly seven in ten Americans support forcing AI companies to transfer half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund, CNBC reports. The figure comes from a Verasight survey of 1,690 US adults, conducted in June. It found 69% backing for the policy. […]
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In the space of about ten days, US lawmakers introduced a small mountain of artificial-intelligence legislation. The bills, rounded up by Nextgov/FCW, pull in two opposite directions at once. One set treats AI as a tool the government should be deploying faster. The other treats it as a hazard that needs fencing in. Both instincts are […]
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling a cybersecurity incident when one hit in May. CISA staff “had to spend time building [a playbook] during the early stages of the incident,” the agency said, recommending that organisations […]
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An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk’s companies. New York-based Subversive ETFs has filed with the SEC for two “Ex-Elon” funds, Bloomberg reports. One fund tracks the Nasdaq-100 and the other the S&P 500. Both exclude any company “founded, controlled or led by” Musk. The products […]
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Beta Technologies has completed the first flights in the US government’s electric air-taxi pilot programme. The Amazon-backed company flew the debut missions of the scheme, CNBC reports. The flights did not carry passengers. Instead, they transported manufactured organs for United Therapeutics between airports in Maryland and Virginia, covering about 275 nautical miles. The programme, an eVTOL […]
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The fight over AI’s harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots that prey on children. On Friday the Massachusetts Democrat tried to turn that list […]
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Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German one taking a slice. The UK has signed a £2bn ($2.7bn) contract to train its soldiers with artificial intelligence. The deal, announced by the Ministry of Defence on Friday, runs for […]
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