The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was meant to be a fix for the deepfake problem, not an example of it. This week Meta previewed an image detector alongside Muse …
The founder of China’s most prominent AI lab has made an unambiguous case for openness. Frontier AI should stay broadly accessible rather than controlled by a select few, Zhipu’s Tang Jie wrote in an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg. His argument in…
Beijing’s cybersecurity warning against Anthropic is expected to speed up a shift already under way. Chinese developers are moving to domestic coding tools, analysts told the South China Morning Post. China’s National Vulnerability Database, overseen b…
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed in a postmortem report on Friday that it did not have a prepared response plan for handling a cybersecurity incident when one hit in May. CISA staff “had to spend time building [a playboo…
Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it prepares to launch AI-focused consumer devices. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, names OpenAI’s chief har…
Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything, ship only what improves the score. Saarth Shah keeps a scoreboard. Every build of Sixtyfour’s res…
Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and an unsettling party trick. Anthropic researchers now have the clearest view yet of what a large language model does while…
Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A facial recognition system in more than 100 UK shops is about to start calling the police in real time. It will fire the m…
Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulators are stepping in. The UK has named Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle as “critical third parties” to its financial sy…
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the right country. Three of China’s biggest technology companies sit on a US military blacklist. All three can still reach so…