The experimental effort, which has not been disclosed, is being used to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza, according to military officials and others.
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A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.
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Amazon Adds $2.75 Billion to its Stake in Anthropic
The latest investment brings Amazon’s total stake in the San Francisco company to $4 billion.
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Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers storing AI workloads and network credentials have been hacked in an ongoing attack campaign targeting a reported vulnerability in Ray, a computing framework used by OpenAI, Uber, and Amazon. The attacks, which have been active for at least seven months, have led to the tampering of AI models....
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Canva’s Affinity acquisition is a non-subscription-based weapon against Adobe
Enlarge / Affinity’s photo editor. (credit: Canva) Online graphic design platform provider Canva announced its acquisition of Affinity on Tuesday. The purchase adds tools for creative professionals to the Australian startup’s repertoire, presenting competition for today’s digital design stronghold, Adobe. The companies didn’t provide specifics about the deal, but Cliff Obrecht, Canva’s co-founder and COO,...
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“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts
Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you won’t be able to do much of anything until you tap “Allow” or “Don’t Allow.” And they’re right next to each other. (credit: Kevin Purdy) Human weaknesses are a rich target for phishing attacks. Making...
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“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers to gauge the relative capabilities of AI language models. “The king is dead,” tweeted software developer Nick...
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(BPRW) JPMCI Presents an Easter Drone Light Show
(Black PR Wire) It’s Holy Week, and many will acknowledge, remember, and celebrate this sacred, high holy time. The renowned Jesus People Ministries Church International (JPMI) will be aglow with a drone light show, featuring 600 drone lights in cel…
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TikTok Bill Would Complicate ByteDance Investments if Passed
Major U.S. investment firms such as General Atlantic, Susquehanna and Sequoia Capital own stakes in ByteDance, the parent of TikTok. Their investments are increasingly under fire.
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Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of unsuspecting users, as evidenced by two unrelated reports published Tuesday. The first, from security firm Lumen Labs, reports that roughly 40,000 home and office routers have been drafted into a criminal enterprise that anonymizes illicit Internet...