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The EU simplified its toughest AI law: what changed and why it matters
6+ hour, 20+ min ago (628+ words) When the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force in August 2024, it was hailed as the world's strictest AI law. Almost two years later, Europe has already agreed to change it. On May 7, EU governments and European Parliament lawmakers struck…...
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (326+ words) On Tuesday, Open AI threw a party for the release of GPT-5. 5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.) If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds like the opposite of…...
How is the DMA reshaping Big Tech's grip on the internet?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (200+ words) The European Commission has released its first formal review of the Digital Markets Act, a law aimed at regulating Big Tech's dominance in Europe's digital economy. The verdict: progress, with caveats. Since the DMA was enacted in March 2024, users have…...
Child safety lab launching "independent crash testing" for AI tools
2+ week, 2+ day ago (636+ words) Since independent vehicle crash testing began in the mid-1990s, automakers have been incentivized to make safety changes that have saved thousands of lives each year. Now, a new group is hoping to take a similar approach to artificial intelligence. Nonprofit media…...
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
2+ week, 3+ day ago (322+ words) There's a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering a doomsday pathogen one of them? Evidently, not every AI company thinks so. According to new reporting by the New York Times,…...
Forget complex skincare, Noli is the AI tool that builds a personalised routine for you
2+ week, 5+ day ago (413+ words) Enter: Noli, here to decode the skincare equation. Noli is an AI-powered beauty marketplace designed to curate a personalised skincare routine based on your skin type, budget and preferences. As part of the brand's new spring campaign, "Choosing Smarter, Choosing…...
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic's New Hacker AI
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (471+ words) In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI's agentic capabilities to infiltrate dozens of targets around the world. It was trivially easy to get around Anthropic's AI guardrails, with the hackers simply pretending…...
Quantum computing: A tech race Europe could win?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1230+ words) In a lab on the western edge of Paris, where the River Seine flows wide and trams slide past glass-fronted buildings and blossoming cherry trees, a technician called R'mi makes some adjustments with a spanner. The machine, a cascade of…...
Anthropic's latest AI model could let hackers carry out attacks faster than ever. It wants companies to put up defenses first
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (634+ words) Anthropic will make the code of its new AI model available to some of the world's biggest cybersecurity and software firms in an effort to slow the arms race ignited by AI in the hands of hackers, Anthropic said Tuesday....
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1+ mon, 3+ week ago (17+ words) A Reporter Tried Cooking Actual AI-Generated Recipes and the Results Are Stomach-Churning'nz. news. yahoo. com...