How to police the AI data feed
To build trust in AI, business leaders must understand what data verification methods are available and how effective and reliable they are.Read More
‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’ Is the Face of Nintendo’s Transformation
On the heels of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the new Mario game sets up Nintendo’s future as more than a video game company.
Web Summit loses Google, Meta, Intel, Siemens after founder’s Israel-Palestine post on X and apology
This week, major global tech brands including Google, Meta, Stripe, Intel, and Siemens have all decided not to attend this year’s edition.Read More
IBM’s NorthPole chip runs AI-based image recognition 22 times faster than current chips
A large team of computer scientists and engineers at IBM Research has developed a dedicated computer chip that is able to run AI-based image recognition apps 22 times as fast as chips that are currently on the market.
Major music publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement over song lyrics
This lawsuit follows Amazon’s massive $4 billion investment into the San Francisco-based LLM development company.Read More
Citing Hamas, the US Wants to Treat Crypto “Mixers” as Suspected Money Launderers
With a new emphasis on the Hamas attacks on Israel, the US Treasury has proposed designating foreign cryptocurrency “mixer” services as money launderers and national security threats.
From square to cube: Hardware processing for AI goes 3D, boosting processing power
In a paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers from the University of Oxford, along with collaborators from the Universities of Muenster, Heidelberg, and Exeter, report on their development of integrated photonic-electronic hardware capable of processing three-dimensional (3D) data, substantially boosting data processing parallelism for AI tasks.
North Korea experiments with AI in cyber warfare: US official
North Korea is escalating its cyber capabilities by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), according to Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger.Read More
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Working—for Now
A tough campaign to squash password-sharing appears to be working, according to Netflix’s latest earnings report.
Chatbots reveal troubling ability to infer private data
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.