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Art ‘must not be sacrificed on the altar of corporate profit’, Liberal senator says as AI policy debate rages

Andrew McLachlan says he chooses ‘real forests over virtual ones’ as he urges Labor government to consider AI’s impact on artists and environment Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast The outspoken Liberal senator Andrew McLachlan has raised the alarm…

Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

Some governments moved to confirm chip supply commitments, while others are monitoring the impact on local projects or addressing ongoing investigations.

The OpenAI board member who fired Sam Altman says we still can’t trust AI CEOs

Today, I’m talking with Helen Toner, the executive director of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. This episode is part two of our series on AI in real life. Helen is a well-known figure in the AI safety and policy community, though she is…

How Microcredentials Help Engineers Build Trustworthy AI

Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics, governance, and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the…

Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh-oh, Jensen!

New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.

How it feels to battle with a flood of AI-generated complaints | Letters

An investigator writes that a human-written grievance at least gets to the heart of the issue immediately. Plus letters from Dexter Jandoo and Pete Bibby Re your article ( ‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints, 8 November ), I’m a complaint…

US nonprofits sue AI giants to block frontier development

A group of nonprofits have sued OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX’s AI division, Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s Google, seeking to block the further development of the most advanced AI models over concerns, voiced by the companies’ own leaders, that the technology could pose a threat to…

Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump

This Congressional investigation into Nvidia's China sales and its dealings with Trump is the second one, so far, since news of the alleged spy affair broke.

US public workers are fighting to protect their jobs from AI – and some are winning

As governments adopt AI, workers are gaining ground in how it’s used and securing safeguards against its harms In the shadow of Silicon Valley, workers for the city of Oakland, California, worry the region will deploy AI systems that could increase surveillance and inaccurately…

Google pushes privacy angle as Gemini-powered smartglasses debut starting at $395

Smartglasses have always faced an uphill road to acceptance. Not only is propping a computer up on your nose an uncomfortable proposition, but the privacy aspect has been vexing people since the Google Glass days. Now, Google is ready to take another swing at " intelligent…

Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza cleared of using AI to write prize-winning story

After a month-long investigation it was concluded that Kundizeza’s story The Blue Fighter, which won the £10,000 Caine prize, was ‘human-written’ The Zimbabwean author Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of using AI to write a prize-winning short story, after the prestigious…

The Definitive Fine-Tuning Guide for 3D Generation Models

United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

JioStar’s chief architect on AI discovery at 500M-user scale

JioStar’s Vijay Seshadri explains AI discovery at 500M-user scale. Read his lessons on evals, guardrails, and taking AI into production.

Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot

Amazon is betting that many Ring customers will also want an AI-powered security drone and robot patrolling their homes or offices. But the company’s upcoming Ring Robotic products are also certain to intensify privacy concerns previously raised around a prior Amazon attempt to…

DeepMind reveals Gemini Robotics 2.5 and open safety benchmark "ASIMOV-jailbreak"

Google DeepMind has revealed a new generation of the AI-powered Gemini Robotics platform. In the 2.5 release, Google says its robotic AI is getting tantalizingly close to completing real-world tasks as well as humans do. In fact, some Gemini robots were able to get actual work…

Cogent and OpenAI build cyber defense factories for enterprises

Cogent combines OpenAI models with enterprise context to help automatically remediate vulnerabilities with agents.

Ukraine’s fiber-optic drones get squeezed by AI data center demand

Impervious to battlefield jamming, drones physically connected to human operators by miles of fiber-optic cables have become such a common weapon of war in Ukraine that trees and fields are strewn with tangled cables thinner than fishing lines. But importing such fiber-optic…

Nancy Pelosi’s replacement is ready to regulate AI

As a California state senator, Scott Wiener authored legislation aimed at curbing the risks of advanced AI. Now, after winning a tight congressional race for former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s open San Francisco seat, he could play a key role in setting federal AI…

Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

Google: Schools can keep search while skipping Gemini, but AI search is non-negotiable

Google faced the ire of educators and parents earlier this week when it announced a new AI policy for K–12 schools. Google said that it developed its new approach to give schools more control, but early reporting also suggested Google would block search access for schools that…

Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.

ChatGPT allegedly helped a North Carolina woman, Cheryl Gates, craft a “personalized plan” to poison her husband, James, after fueling her delusions that he planned to divorce her and leave her with nothing. A grand jury indicted Cheryl Gates on charges of attempted first-degree…

Australian universities are creating AI-native graduates

Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.

AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the E.U.’s New Rules

The European Union now requires AI-generated text to be watermarked so that it can be identified as such. But tests on OpenAI’s new textGrain watermark, released in October and developed to comply with the new E.U. law, show that these watermarks often do not survive additional…