Reuters Investigation: 'We wanted to craft a perfect phishing scam. AI bots were happy to help':
We wanted to craft a perfect phishing scam. AI bots were happy to help
Reuters and a Harvard researcher used AI to plot a simulated phishing scam and tested it on senior volunteers. It worked–showing how AI arms criminals for fraud
www.reuters.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reuters Investigation: 'We wanted to craft a perfect phishing scam. AI bots were happy to help':
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Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say reut.rs/3V5300c
Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say
ASML , a crucial supplier of advanced chipmaking equipment, is set to become the top shareholder of French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI in a move to strengthen European tech sovereignty, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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September 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say reut.rs/3V5300c
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OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations
OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations | TechCrunch
OpenAI has decided that its nonprofit division will retain control over its for-profit org, after the company initially announced that it planned to
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May 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations
Alibaba released an new version of its main AI model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, claiming it achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models.
Models at HuggingFace:
huggingface.co/organization...
#AI #Alibaba #Qwen3
Models at HuggingFace:
huggingface.co/organization...
#AI #Alibaba #Qwen3
Qwen3: Think Deeper, Act Faster
QWEN CHAT GitHub Hugging Face ModelScope Kaggle DEMO DISCORD
Introduction Today, we are excited to announce the release of Qwen3, the latest addition to the Qwen family of large language models. Our f...
qwenlm.github.io
April 29, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Alibaba released an new version of its main AI model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, claiming it achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models.
Models at HuggingFace:
huggingface.co/organization...
#AI #Alibaba #Qwen3
Models at HuggingFace:
huggingface.co/organization...
#AI #Alibaba #Qwen3
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French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched…
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump
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OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models
OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models
In a new policy proposal, OpenAI describes Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as “state-subsidized” and “state-controlled,” and recommends that the U.S. government consider banning models from the outfit and similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported…
tcrn.ch
March 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models
Popular AI chatbots sometimes use Russian disinformation spread by a network of sites targeting those chatbots, fake news research platform NewsGuard reports based on an analysis.
#AI #NewsGuard #Chatbot #Russian #Propaganda
#AI #NewsGuard #Chatbot #Russian #Propaganda
A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Popular AI chatbots sometimes use Russian disinformation spread by a network of sites targeting those chatbots, fake news research platform NewsGuard reports based on an analysis.
#AI #NewsGuard #Chatbot #Russian #Propaganda
#AI #NewsGuard #Chatbot #Russian #Propaganda
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Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded free app on iOS and Android for all categories, per data from multiple app-tracking platforms such as Sensor Tower.…
tcrn.ch
March 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that North Korea was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange ByBit reut.rs/4bkWf1s
FBI says North Korea was responsible for $1.5 billion ByBit hack
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday that North Korea was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange ByBit.
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February 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that North Korea was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange ByBit reut.rs/4bkWf1s
Chinese company Alibaba has released a publicly available video generation model that. Wan 2.1 is built on up to 14 billion parameters and can create videos in 720p at 30fps - although it is not clear how long generated videos can be.
See: github.com/Wan-Video/Wa...
#AI #Alibaba #Video #Wan2.1
See: github.com/Wan-Video/Wa...
#AI #Alibaba #Video #Wan2.1
Wan 2.1(Alibaba)
Wan2.1 by WanAI is an advanced video generation model developed by Alibaba Cloud, capable of transforming text inputs into high-quality videos. Supporting both Chinese and English, this model excels a...
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February 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Chinese company Alibaba has released a publicly available video generation model that. Wan 2.1 is built on up to 14 billion parameters and can create videos in 720p at 30fps - although it is not clear how long generated videos can be.
See: github.com/Wan-Video/Wa...
#AI #Alibaba #Video #Wan2.1
See: github.com/Wan-Video/Wa...
#AI #Alibaba #Video #Wan2.1
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Alibaba will release an open-source version of its video and image-generating artificial intelligence model, Wan 2.1, the Chinese tech giant said in a post on X reut.rs/3D7M03N
Alibaba to release open-source version of video generating AI model
Alibaba will release an open-source version of its video and image-generating artificial intelligence model, Wan 2.1, the Chinese tech giant said in a post on X on Tuesday.
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February 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Alibaba will release an open-source version of its video and image-generating artificial intelligence model, Wan 2.1, the Chinese tech giant said in a post on X reut.rs/3D7M03N
A study by researchers at OpenAI into the software engineering capabilities of SOTA AI models shows Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and even its reasoning model o1, on the new SWE-Lancer benchmark (openai.com/index/swe-la...) See: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115
#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #SWE-Lancer
#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #SWE-Lancer
Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and o1 in software engineering, OpenAI study shows
A new OpenAI study reveals Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms GPT-4o and o1 on SWE-Lancer, a new benchmark simulating real-world software engineering tasks.
bdtechtalks.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A study by researchers at OpenAI into the software engineering capabilities of SOTA AI models shows Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and even its reasoning model o1, on the new SWE-Lancer benchmark (openai.com/index/swe-la...) See: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115
#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #SWE-Lancer
#AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #SWE-Lancer
In El Pais, Marita Alonso takes a critical look at the growing sex technology market.
"...to educate the [human] gaze to avoid objectification. Apparently, Levy was right when he said that sex with robots is going to be inevitable. What can be avoided is the repetition of toxic patterns."
#AI #Sex
"...to educate the [human] gaze to avoid objectification. Apparently, Levy was right when he said that sex with robots is going to be inevitable. What can be avoided is the repetition of toxic patterns."
#AI #Sex
Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women
The growing market for sex technology is overlooking certain factors that could condemn robosexuality to objectification
english.elpais.com
February 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The Grok 3 AI model, of Elon Musk's company xAI, was instructed to censor unflattering facts about Donald Trump and Elon Musk himself:
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#AI #xAI #Grok #Grok3 #Misinformation #Censorship
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#AI #xAI #Grok #Grok3 #Misinformation #Censorship
February 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Grok 3 AI model, of Elon Musk's company xAI, was instructed to censor unflattering facts about Donald Trump and Elon Musk himself:
techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/g...
#AI #xAI #Grok #Grok3 #Misinformation #Censorship
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#AI #xAI #Grok #Grok3 #Misinformation #Censorship
OpenAI writes it has blocked a number of accounts that used ChatGPT to develop a suspected AI-based surveillance tool.
OpenAI has partnerships, with U.S. National Laboratories for nuclear weapon research and Anduril, to deploy AI on the battlefield.
#AI #OpenAI #PR #War
OpenAI has partnerships, with U.S. National Laboratories for nuclear weapon research and Anduril, to deploy AI on the battlefield.
#AI #OpenAI #PR #War
Disrupting malicious uses of AI
Ensuring AI benefits humanity by advancing democratic AI, preventing misuse, and protecting against authoritarian threats.
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February 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The European Commission is going to charge Google with violating the Digital Markets Act, Reuters reports. The tech giant is said to favor its own search services on its platforms. Google's previously proposed changes are said to be insufficient to meet the complaints.
#EU #DMA #BigTech #Google
#EU #DMA #BigTech #Google
Exclusive: Google to be hit with EU charges of breaching Big Tech rules, sources say
Alphabet unit Google is set to be charged with breaching EU rules aimed at checking the power of Big Tech after proposed changes to its search results failed to address EU antitrust regulator's concerns and those of their rivals, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
www.reuters.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
OpenAI said on Friday that it is rolling out Operator, its so-called AI agent that can perform tasks on behalf of users, for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the U.K., and more countries. OpenAI…
tcrn.ch
February 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries
Microsoft Research and Xbox studio Ninja Theory have teamed up to create a new generative AI model, called Muse, that can generate gameplay. Xbox sees potential in this model, among other things, optimizing classic games for newer devices.
See: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #Xbox #Muse #WHAM
See: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #Xbox #Muse #WHAM
Advancing game ideation with Muse: the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM)
Today Nature published Microsoft’s research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We are releasing the model weights, sample data, & WHAM Demonstrator...
www.microsoft.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Microsoft Research and Xbox studio Ninja Theory have teamed up to create a new generative AI model, called Muse, that can generate gameplay. Xbox sees potential in this model, among other things, optimizing classic games for newer devices.
See: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #Xbox #Muse #WHAM
See: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #Xbox #Muse #WHAM
Journalists at The New York Times will have access to various generative AI tools, including a self-developed system, news website Semafor reports based on internal messages. The NYT emphasizes that journalists should not rewrite entire paragraphs with the tools.
#AI #Semafor #NYT
#AI #Semafor #NYT
New York Times goes all-in on internal AI tools
The company said it was greenlighting a number of AI programs for editorial and product staff.
www.semafor.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
OpenAI is going to pay the Guardian Media Group for the use of articles to train AI models and will provide source references through snippets and other means.
The publisher of The Guardian says it has entered into a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
#AI #OpenAI #TheGuardian
The publisher of The Guardian says it has entered into a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
#AI #OpenAI #TheGuardian
Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI
Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s globa...
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
OpenAI is going to pay the Guardian Media Group for the use of articles to train AI models and will provide source references through snippets and other means.
The publisher of The Guardian says it has entered into a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
#AI #OpenAI #TheGuardian
The publisher of The Guardian says it has entered into a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
#AI #OpenAI #TheGuardian
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Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
Italian company SIO, which sells to government customers, is behind an Android spyware campaign called Spyrtacus that spoofed popular apps like WhatsApp, per security researchers.
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tcrn.ch
February 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
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Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age - https://www.theverge.com/news/610512/google-age-estimation-machine-learning
Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age
Google wants to determine who’s under 18.
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age - https://www.theverge.com/news/610512/google-age-estimation-machine-learning
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Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use
Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use
Are AI tools legal?
buff.ly
February 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use
The European Data Protection Board (www.edpb.europa.eu/edpb_en) says Chinese AI tool DeepSeek may face further regulatory actions in the future. Several European data protection authorities have raised concerns about how DeepSeek handles users' personal data.
#AI #DeepSeek #EU #EDPB #GDPR
#AI #DeepSeek #EU #EDPB #GDPR
DeepSeek may face further regulatory actions, EU privacy watchdog says
DeepSeek may face more actions from national regulators in the future, Europe's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, underscoring the bloc's concerns about the rising popularity of the cheap Chinese artificial intelligence startup.
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Anthropic CEO Amodei calls the AI Action Summit a "missed opportunity". With the turbulent developments, he sees the need to "move faster and with greater clarity". He warns for dominance by authoritarian countries. JD Vance said in Paris that the US will dominate AI.
#AI #AIActionSummit #Anthropic
#AI #AIActionSummit #Anthropic
Statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit
A call for greater focus and urgency
www.anthropic.com
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Anthropic CEO Amodei calls the AI Action Summit a "missed opportunity". With the turbulent developments, he sees the need to "move faster and with greater clarity". He warns for dominance by authoritarian countries. JD Vance said in Paris that the US will dominate AI.
#AI #AIActionSummit #Anthropic
#AI #AIActionSummit #Anthropic