On Thursday, OpenAI announced the addition of shopping features to ChatGPT Search. The new feature allows users to search for products and purchase them through merchant websites after being redirected from the ChatGPT interface. Product placement is not sponsored, and the update affects all users, regardless of whether they’ve signed in to an account. Adam...
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Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk
Backblaze is dismissing allegations from a short seller that it engaged in “sham accounting” that could put the cloud storage and backup solution provider and its customers’ backups in jeopardy. On April 24, Morpheus Research posted a lengthy report accusing the San Mateo, California-based firm of practicing “sham accounting and brazen insider dumping.” The claims...
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iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years
About a decade ago, Apple and Google started updating iOS and Android, respectively, to make them less susceptible to “juice jacking,” a form of attack that could surreptitiously steal data or execute malicious code when users plug their phones into special-purpose charging hardware. Now, researchers are revealing that, for years, the mitigations have suffered from...
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Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences.
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Is Google Breaking Up? + Seasteading Is Back + Tool Time
“They are being dragged into change, kicking and screaming.”
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New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing
There’s a curious contradiction at the heart of today’s most capable AI models that purport to “reason”: They can solve routine math problems with impressive accuracy, yet when faced with formulating deeper mathematical proofs found in competition-level challenges, they often fail. That’s the finding of eye-opening preprint research into simulated reasoning (SR) models, initially listed...
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FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members
The FBI is offering $10 million for information about the China-state hacking group tracked as Salt Typhoon and its intrusion last year into sensitive networks belonging to multiple US telecommunications companies. Salt Typhoon is one of a half-dozen or more hacking groups that work on behalf of the People’s Republic of China. Intelligence agencies and...
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In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource
Ironically, our present AI age has shone a bright spotlight on the immense value of human creativity as breakthroughs in technology threaten to undermine it. As tech giants rush to build newer AI models, their web crawlers vacuum up creative content, and those same models spew floods of synthetic media, risking drowning out the human...
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(BPRW) 4th Annual Small Business Week Kickoff Celebration
(Black PR Wire) Jackson Health System’s Small Business Program invites entrepreneurs to join us at our 4th Annual Small Business Week Kickoff Celebration on Thursday, May 1st at 9:30 am. Our goal is to connect vendors with business opportunities, networki…
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If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights?
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.