Microsoft’s Brad Smith calls for ‘real and effective’ AI safety standards
Microsoft President Brad Smith warned Tuesday that industry and governments must "act with urgency" to...
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Anthropic warns of AI ‘worms’ spreading across smart gadgets
Small artificial intelligence models may be only months away from being able to behave like...
New detector spots AI-generated work by examining ideas, not words
It's no secret that an ever-increasing number of scientists use AI to help with their...
Optical intelligence could help communications systems read complex light patterns
Scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have developed a "light-powered brain" that can...
Meta says its new AI models on par with OpenAI, Anthropic
Meta on Monday unveiled two new "frontier" artificial intelligence (AI) models called Wonder and Wonder...
Coordinated software tools could cut AI training energy use by up to 50%
Around half of the energy used to train AI can be saved without affecting speed...
AI framework offers new approach to teaching engineers ethical decision-making
Research published in the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning suggests that...
Will AI be good or bad for the climate? Here’s what the latest evidence on energy use suggests
Is AI a climate change villain whose insatiable hunger for electricity will roast the planet?...
UK retains early access to test latest US AI models
Britain will retain early access to the latest artificial intelligence models for safety testing, the...
An overlooked sci‑fi movie shows how disruption by AI could be positive for society
The AI doomsday news cycle plays on anxieties about the future. The media have tended...
A global, hardwired pause of frontier AI training is feasible, says new report
If the world's government and AI leaders ever agree to pause frontier AI training, is...
Just 10 minutes of AI use may erode persistence on hard tasks
Brian Christian has spent 20 years thinking about how artificial intelligence will change our minds...
Google faces backlash against India data center
Handcuffs encircle Google's logo on one campaign poster, while another warns that people "cannot drink...
Bill Gates warns cyberattacks most imminent AI threat
Bill Gates on Sunday warned that unregulated artificial intelligence poses a growing threat and predicted...
Power, water, jobs: Google on India data center concerns
Construction of a massive Google data center in the Indian city of Visakhapatnam has been...
Anthropic’s Claude AI submits a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia homicide case
An Anthropic artificial intelligence model submitted a false tip to a Philadelphia police website about...
A new approach to sustainable AI: Offloading part of the computational burden onto light
As artificial intelligence technologies become increasingly widespread, the growing demand for processing power and energy...
Anthropic AI model sent fake murder tip to Philadelphia police
An artificial intelligence model developed by Anthropic submitted a fabricated tip about an unsolved homicide...
Can AI detect a silent internet outage before it occurs?
The internet can encounter a strange type of failure in which a router seems to...
‘Human-authored’ book labels gain ground amid AI scandals
Initiatives to label books as written by humans, not artificial intelligence, are gaining ground following...
Anthropic bans ‘cruel’ behavior against its Claude AI
Anthropic on Thursday moved to bar users from treating its Claude AI system with needless...
Chinese AI tool pulled to prevent ‘misuse’ after South Korea hacks
Chinese AI cybersecurity tool Artex said it stopped programmers from accessing its source code, acknowledging...
Japan warns for increased vigilance against rising cyberattacks
Japan's government issued a warning Friday for increased vigilance against cyberattacks, which are rising in...
Spelling backward gets easier for AI models upgraded to see every letter
Before large language models (LLMs) can process text, they split it into chunks such as...