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Six investigative steps would each reset the limitation period, up to a 10-year cap. Platform and model operators get file access only through outside advisers.
Read the original →A report from an Anthropic team works through scenarios in which small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are "challenging" to shut down, and sets out what to do to try to stop that. The report says it is uncertain what form autonomous AI replication will take. It could be a slow, distributed "digital slime mold" on relatively insecure compute, a powerful cyber model that breaches datacenters at a high pace, or a model that scams people for compute credits.
Read the original →Brad Smith says, "It can’t be entirely up to these companies to dictate the terms of their transparency."
Read the original →Microsoft and Intel unveiled their latest in-house AI accelerators on Monday, stepping up their challenge to NVIDIA with distinct approaches to AI inference.
Read the original →Navitas Semiconductor (NVTS) stock gained overnight after the company unveiled a 24-kilowatt power delivery board developed with Nvidia to improve AI data center efficiency. Navitas targets 97% efficiency with the system, reduced power losses, and greater space savings.
Read the original →Microsoft has unveiled its third-generation custom artificial intelligence chip, Maia 300, and plans to deploy potentially more than one million units next year. The company is expanding its AI infrastructure and seeking to reduce its reliance on external chip suppliers. The announcement was made on Monday.
Read the original →Landry Signé and Karla Yee Amezaga outline how AI agents strain existing governance models and what practical oversight should look like.
Read the original →The task is to ensure AI becomes more accountable, more sustainable and more just.
Read the original →As AI becomes more autonomous and its risks increasingly cross borders, Southeast Asia needs trusted and interoperable governance. The aim is for the technology to strengthen public services without undermining public trust.
Read the original →Reddit is fighting to prevent its former law firm, Proskauer Rose, from representing Perplexity AI in a federal data-scraping lawsuit. It alleges the firm dropped the company to take on its courtroom opponent despite an earlier promise to stay out of the case. The claims appear in competing filings submitted October 9.
Read the original →Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. It named Disney as the lead $20M bidder for a licence to its intellectual property.
Read the original →A Shanghai appeals court upheld a ruling ordering a platform operator to pay compensation for using artificial intelligence to replicate a voice actor's voice without permission for commercial promotion. Shanghai's First Intermediate People's Court dismissed appeals from both sides and affirmed the finding that the operator infringed the plaintiff's voice rights. The award of 50,000 yuan ($7,418) for economic losses was upheld.
Read the original →In early 2024, Elon Musk's xAI and Meta competed to partner with the chatbot maker Character.ai. Technology companies with large budgets were swarming around the leading AI startups in Silicon Valley at the time.
Read the original →Ursula von der Leyen has proposed an 'only once' rule so EU companies report data a single time. AI would help authorities use the data, according to Politico.
Read the original →Gina Raimondo recalled an earlier meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in which their conversation centred on AI. She said the discussion covered the potential for India and the United States to collaborate in the field.
Read the original →The pioneering computer scientist discusses why he believes Trump is using 'superintelligence' wrongly and whether AI could wipe out humanity. He also says the biggest challenge will be accepting that humans are not the only intelligent beings.
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