
Hackers take on AI
DEF CON AI Village People looking for flaws
This year's DEF CON AI Village has invited hackers to find bugs and biases in large language models (LLMs) built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Chinese think they can do AI with weaker chips
Avoiding US sanctions
While the US thinks that it can delay China's rise in power by forbidding the sale of high powered chips to the Middle Kingdom, it seems that is doomed to fail.

AI gives low-paid work to humans to stuff its database
Who says it will take away all your jobs?
AI appears to have created a new job -- artificial intelligence trainer, which is yet another minimum wage galley slave role.

FTC asks US companies to use AI nicely
Because there will be no problems if everyone is nice
America's consumer-protecting federal agency, the FTC is asking US companies to be nice when it comes to using customer data on AI systems.

Smart home market growing
Light bulbs getting more intelligent
Figures from Grand View Research show that the global smart home market size is expected to reach USD 537.01 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 27.07 per cent in seven years.

AI Pioneer fears it will do humanity harm
Geoffrey Hinton quit Google so he could speak out
The man who has been working on AI for 50 years feels that his life’s work might harm humans.

IBM pauses hiring humans
AI could replace 7,800 jobs
Biggish Blue is so confident that AI can replace humans that it is pausing hiring.

Thiel shows how AI can kill people
Palantir demos how the military might use AI to fight a war
Palantir, the company owned by billionaire Peter Thiel, is launching the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), software meant to run large language models like GPT-4 and alternatives on private networks.

Google will bring AI to its advertising
Coming up with a use for it
Google plans to introduce generative artificial intelligence into its advertising business over the coming months.

Microsoft and Epic set their AI on medical records
Looking for trends
Software king of the world Microsoft and Epic Systems announced that they are bringing OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model into health care for use in drafting message responses from health care workers to patients and for use in analysing medical records while looking for trends.