Shield AI, a tech start-up, already has a drone run by artificial intelligence being used by the Israeli military. But persuading the Pentagon to embrace the technology remains a big challenge.
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Another Google Antitrust Battle Reaches Court in Epic Games Case
The Fortnite creator accuses Google of stifling app competition, a challenge on top of a federal suit claiming the tech giant abuses its search dominance.
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Look, Up in the Sky! Amazon’s Drones Are Delivering Cans of Soup!
Amazon’s much-hyped drone project is dropping small objects on driveways. Some customers are not sure what it delivers beyond minestrone.
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OpenAI Lets Mom-and-Pop Shops Customize ChatGPT
With a new GPTs service, anyone can build a chatbot and instantly share it with friends, family and the general public.
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Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence server is under “mass exploitation”
Enlarge A critical vulnerability in Atlassian’s Confluence enterprise server app that allows for malicious commands and reset servers is under active exploitation by threat actors in attacks that install ransomware, researchers said. “Widespread exploitation of the CVE-2023-22518 authentication bypass vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Server has begun, posing a risk of significant data loss,” Glenn Thorpe,...
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OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo: Larger memory, lower cost, new knowledge
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Monday at the OpenAI DevDay event, company CEO Sam Altman announced a major update to its GPT-4 language model called GPT-4 Turbo, which can process a much larger amount of text than GPT-4 and features a knowledge cutoff of April 2023. He also introduced APIs for DALL-E 3, GPT-4 Vision,...
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OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles
Enlarge / “GPTs” will allow ChatGPT users to create custom AI assistants that serve different purposes. (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, OpenAI announced “GPTs,” a new feature that allows ChatGPT users to create custom versions of its AI assistant that serve different roles or purposes. OpenAI will let users share GPT roles with others, and...
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Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Saturday, Elon Musk announced xAI’s launch of an early beta version of “Grok,” an AI language model similar to ChatGPT that is designed to respond to user queries with a mix of information and humor. Grok reportedly integrates real-time data access from X (formerly Twitter)—and is apparently...
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No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked
Enlarge (credit: Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Identity and authentication management provider Okta on Friday published an autopsy report on a recent breach that gave hackers administrative access to the Okta accounts of some of its customers. While the postmortem emphasizes the transgressions of an employee logging into a personal Google account on a...
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Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Identity and authentication management provider Okta has been hit by another breach, this one against a third-party vendor that allowed hackers to steal personal information for 5,000 Okta employees. The compromise was carried out in late September against Rightway Healthcare, a service Okta uses to support employees and their dependents in...