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In response to the “wiki incident”, OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment — How we think about the “wiki incident,” where our agents wrote to several internet sites: it's past time for us …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack — The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack. … Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout — OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing a scheming swarm on a German language wiki. … A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered …
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| Miranda Murray / Reuters: |
Berlin is reviewing Rhysida's 5.79TB release of state data after refusing to pay a ransom; files reportedly include national defense and threat response plans — Berlin's state government said on Saturday it was reviewing with the highest intensity a trove of stolen data published by a ransomware group … | ABC News: |
Trump admin debuts arcade.gov with a deportation-themed Snake clone and a Tetris-like wall-building clone; Tetris says it takes IP infringement “very seriously” — In “Build the Wall,” players aim to “protect the border” from zombies. — Isabella Murray, Nicholas Kerr, and Michelle Stoddart| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday …
More: TechCrunch, Engadget, New York Times, The Hans India, Digit, Unite.AI, and Reuters
| Morgan Meaker / Bloomberg: |
As researchers begin applying AI to understand animal communication, bioethicists warn it could give humans new ways to manipulate, exploit, and harm animals — AI could transform our understanding of other species. It also risks giving humans powerful new ways to manipulate, exploit and harm them.| Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal: |
Swiss Re: global premiums for insuring data centers will likely reach $20B-$30B/year by 2030; ~40% of US data-center capacity is located in tornado-prone areas — AI hyperscale data centers are exposed to a dizzying array of potential threats during construction and operation
Bluesky: @tcarmody
| Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
Businesses in China are experimenting with ways to package and market AI tokens to ordinary consumers, including as credit card rewards and telecom plan bundles — Five unexpected ways computing power is entering everyday life in the country. — Artificial intelligence tokens …
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| Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Betaworks has a 5.5% stake in Hugging Face, worth ~$650M at its $11.9B acquisition price for stockholders; A.Capital says it could bag $1.5B on the sale — John Borthwick's venture firm wrote the first check Hugging Face ever received, and now owns a stake that could be worth $650 million.| Mishal Husain / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with Kai-Fu Lee on China's open-model advantage, AI's impact on jobs, US export restrictions on chips, Chinese AI's role in developing countries, and more — Chinese AI companies are rapidly closing the gap with US rivals, even after years of restrictions on their access to advanced chips.
More: Noahpinion and Bloomberg Podcasts on YouTube
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Forums: r/China and r/Futurology
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling, an AI prompt injection tactic used to hide malicious instructions, to evade email platform filters — A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters …
More: Risky Business, SC Media, Cyber Security News, The Register, Cyber Security News, The New Stack, Risky Business, and The Hacker News
Forums: r/technology and Ars OpenForum
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Google patches an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome that could potentially allow remote code execution within Chrome's sandboxed renderer process — Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US and UK sign an MOU to investigate and share info on organized crime syndicates behind online scam centers, many of which are based in Southeast Asia — The United States and United Kingdom will work together on an initiative to shut down scam centers stealing billions of dollars through investment and romance fraud schemes.Sponsor Posts
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