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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Here's How San Jose Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Stop Pedestrian Traffic Deaths
AImay be considered an invaluable tool when talking about traffic and pedestrian deaths in a city where two more lives were lost this past weekend in hit and run...
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ChatGPT's Evil Twin 'WormGPT' is Silently Entering Emails, Raiding Banks
SlashNext says WormGPT is an example of the threat that language-generative AI models pose.
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Cybersecurity Labels for Smart Devices are On Their Way
White House unveils new cybersecurity labeling plan to tell you when your smart devices are secure.
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Generative AI Tools Quickly 'Running Out of Text' to Train Themselves
It's the latest concern raised regarding OpenAI and other AI developers' data-collection practices.
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How to Use Generative AI Tools While Still Protecting Your Privacy
Here's how to take some control of your data while using artificial intelligence tools and apps.
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'Not for Machines to Harvest': Data Revolts Break Out Against AI
Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies,and news organizations are among those...
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A New Way to Look at Data Privacy
A new metric allows a small amount of noise to be added to models to protect sensitive data while maintaining the model's accuracy.
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Rising Data Center Costs Linked to AI Demands
Energy usage associated with running AI number-crunching is fast becoming a key driver of rising data center bills.
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Cracking Down on Dissent, Russia Seeds a Surveillance Supply Chain
Russia has built a network of technology contractors to supply it with surveillance equipment in order to spy on and quash internal dissent.
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FTC Investigating Whether ChatGPT Harms Consumers
The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date.
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As Businesses Clamor for Workplace A.I., Tech Companies Rush to Provide It
Amazon, Box, Salesforce, Oracle, and others have recently rolled out A.I.-related products to help workplaces become more efficient and productive.
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How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
The detectors ignore all context clues, so they don't process the existence of a lifelike automaton in a photo with Mr. Musk as unlikely.
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Meta Loses as Top EU Court backs Antitrust Regulators over Privacy Breach Checks
Meta harvests user data for behavioral advertising, a business model common to Big Tech.
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Barred from Grocery Stores by Facial Recognition
The use of facial recognition by private businesses in the U.K. is on the rise.
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Biden Administration Weighs Further Curbs on Sales of A.I. Chips to China
Reports that the White House may clamp down on sales of semiconductors that power artificial intelligence capabilities sent tech stocks diving.
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A Bridge Between Different Cryptocurrencies
A decentralized protocol could allow for the efficient, secure exchange of one cryptocurrency for another.
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How Secure Are Voice Authentication Systems?
Computer scientists have developed an attack that can bypass voice authentication security systems within six attempts.
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Junk Websites Filled with AI-Generated Text are Pulling In Money from Programmatic Ads
More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.
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