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Tokyo cops deploy cutting-edge AI and drones to combat stalking and disasters
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is embracing advanced technology, including generative AI, autonomous drones, and bomb-disposal robots, to revolutionize law enforcement.
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Why the removal of MIT's "jaw-droppingly bad" AI paper is a lesson for us all
Few people call out cybersecurity hype as bluntly as WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins.
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New Apple TV intro is all human work
Pushing against the trend, the iPhone maker skirts artificial intelligence (AI) and actually films the new intros for Apple TV and Apple Original Movies.
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New creepy details are emerging about how Musk really built Grok’s anime girlfriend Ani
Project Skippy: How Musk’s xAI turned employee data into anime girlfriend
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Seven lawsuits accuse OpenAI of negligence after reported ChatGPT-linked suicides
OpenAI is at the center of more scandal, with seven lawsuits filed in California against ChatGPT. The lawsuits claim that the chatbot caused delusional behavior and suicides, and four deaths have been reported.
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Alibaba working on “super AI cloud” to prepare for what’s next
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu has said the company is investing heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure to prepare for artificial superintelligence (ASI) that’s expected to surpass human capabilities.
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China’s great AI leap forward: Kimi K2 Thinking claims to surpass Western rivals
Chinese AI startup Moonshot has claimed its model sets “new records across benchmarks that assess reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities.” If true, this would mark the first time an open-source AI model reaches parity or even surpasses the best proprietary offerings from OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic.
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OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants no bailouts, but people now searching “AI bubble” non-stop
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was forced to publicly state that his startup won’t ask for a government bailout if it fails, following the company’s CFO's expression of hope for some federal support. This naturally sparked a frenzied debate.
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AI takes the call: UK launches major crackdown on phone spoofing scams
The UK government and British telecom companies have joined forces to tackle fraudsters who try to scam gullible victims into handing over their money or personal information via phone spoofing.
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Microsoft launches "humanist superintelligence" to revolutionize healthcare
Microsoft is forming a new team that wants to build artificial intelligence that is vastly more capable than humans in certain domains, starting with medical diagnostics, the executive leading the effort told Reuters.
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Famed “Big Short” investor Michael Burry is betting against AI giants: what does he see?
Michael Burry, the contrarian investor who correctly called the 2008 financial crisis, is now expressing his skepticism about the AI boom. Not only that: the hedge fund manager just backed up his words by placing two huge bets against Nvidia and Palantir.
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Threat actors manipulating AI to “enhance all stages” of malicious attacks, Google intel warns
From ransomware and credential stealing to new malware strains, even posing as capture-the-flag (CTF) participants to manipulate chatbots, threat actors are officially embracing AI tools like never before, enhancing all stages of the cyberattack lifecycle, Google threat intelligence warns.
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One field where employees are more than happy to be replaced by AI
Meetings may be one of the few fields where employees are happy to be replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) – and they’re increasingly doing so, even if they’re being called “rude.”
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ChatGPT spews more Russian propaganda than other chatbots
Popular chatbots cite sources controlled by the Russian state when inquired about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine about 18% of the time, a study finds.
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Volkswagen steps on the gas in the Chinese EV market by developing its own AI chip
The German car maker is set to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) chip to strengthen its position in the world’s biggest car market. Or, as Volkswagen (VW) calls it, it’s “most important” market.
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Common Crawl removes AI dataset containing over 2M news articles
At the request of BREIN, Common Crawl has removed over two million news articles belonging to popular Dutch news outlets from its AI training dataset.
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Fake magic: Coca-Cola doubles down on AI for its Christmas ads
Beverage maker Coca-Cola has again reimagined its classic “Holidays Are Coming” ads using artificial intelligence (AI) because it’s cheaper and faster than human work.
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Florida woman uses AI to make false assault claim
A Florida woman was arrested after using artificial intelligence (AI) to make a false assault claim, highlighting the dangers of a recent social media trend.
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In a first, DHS files warrant for ChatGPT prompts: AI firms now in a conundrum
In a historic first, the Department of Homeland Security has obtained a federal search warrant compelling OpenAI to reveal user prompts. But the bigger story is what it signals for the future of data privacy in the age of AI and global data governance, an expert tells Cybernews – and just you wait until agentic AI takes off.
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AI browsers can bypass media paywalls, study finds
Artificial intelligence (AI) browsers, such as OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet, can bypass media paywalls, further escalating tensions between big tech and publishers.
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