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'No AI Agents are Allowed.' EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

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'No AI Agents are Allowed.' EU Bans Use of AI Assistants in Virtual Meetings

Image: Guillaume Périgois/Unsplash The EU is banning the use of AI-powered virtual assistants during online meetings. Such assistants are often used to transcribe, take notes, or even record visuals and audio during a video conference. In a presentation from the European Commission delivered to European Digital Innovation Hubs earlier this month, there is a note on the “Online Meeting Etiquette” slide that states “No AI Agents are allowed.” AI agents are tools that can perform…

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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

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OpenAI Seeks Feedback About Open Model That Will Be Revealed ‘In the Coming Months’

Image credit: Creative Commons Developers have the opportunity to weigh in on OpenAI’s latest project. On March 31, the AI giant published applications for feedback sessions on an upcoming open language model, the second such model since OpenAI’s LLMs went private after GPT-2. It will be released “in the coming months,” according to a post on X by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Open-weight models can be modified by their users. In particular, “weights” in generative…

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

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DeepSeek Chatbot Beats OpenAI on App Store Leaderboard

Over the weekend, Chinese AI company DeepSeek released an AI chat app including a “reasoning” AI model comparable to OpenAI’s o1, causing a stir among American AI companies as DeepSeek rose to the top of Apple’s App Store. DeepSeek is a Hangzhou, China-based company providing generative AI models and AI integration. Its first products to make waves in the American market are the GPT-4-like DeepSeek-V3 and R1, an advanced “reasoning model.” Like ChatGPT, DeepSeek-V3 and…

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Google Launches Gemini 2.0 with Autonomous Tool Linking

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Google Launches Gemini 2.0 with Autonomous Tool Linking

Google is embracing “agentic experiences” in the rollout of Gemini 2.0, its new flagship family of generative AI expected to compete with ChatGPT with OpenAI o1, GitHub Copilot, and Amazon Nova. The tech giant released the first model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, on Dec. 11 for global developers through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Consumers can expect Gemini 2.0 to impact Google Search and AI Overviews, with limited testing beginning next…

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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

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Can Security Experts Leverage Generative AI Without Prompt Engineering Skills?

Professionals across industries are exploring generative AI for various tasks — including creating information security training materials — but will it truly be effective? Brian Callahan, senior lecturer and graduate program director in information technology and web sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Shoshana Sugerman, an undergraduate student in this same program, presented the results of their experiment on this topic at ISC2 Security Congress in Las Vegas in October. Experiment involved creating cyber training…

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

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Generative AI in Security: Risks and Mitigation Strategies

Generative AI became tech’s fiercest buzzword seemingly overnight with the release of ChatGPT. Two years later, Microsoft is using OpenAI foundation models and fielding questions from customers about how AI changes the security landscape. Siva Sundaramoorthy, senior cloud solutions security architect at Microsoft, often answers these questions. The security expert provided an overview of generative AI — including its benefits and security risks — to a crowd of cybersecurity professionals at ISC2 in Las Vegas…

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Apple Joins Voluntary U.S. Government Commitment to AI Safety

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Apple Joins Voluntary U.S. Government Commitment to AI Safety

Apple is the latest addition to the list of public U.S. companies that made voluntary commitments to AI regulations, the White House announced on July 26. The commitments, first announced in September 2023, include vows to publicly disclose AI capabilities, to watermark AI content and more. These commitments set a public standard for the country’s largest AI makers in an effort to reduce deception and other novel, unsafe practices that could stem from realistic-looking AI…

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OpenAI Secrets Stolen in 2023 After Internal Forum Was Hacked

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OpenAI Secrets Stolen in 2023 After Internal Forum Was Hacked

The online forum OpenAI employees use for confidential internal communications was breached last year, anonymous sources have told The New York Times. Hackers lifted details about the design of the company’s AI technologies from forum posts, but they did not infiltrate the systems where OpenAI actually houses and builds its AI. OpenAI executives announced the incident to the whole company during an all-hands meeting in April 2023, and also informed the board of directors. It…

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OpenAI, Anthropic AI Research Reveals More About How LLMs Affect Security and Bias

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OpenAI, Anthropic AI Research Reveals More About How LLMs Affect Security and Bias

Because large language models operate using neuron-like structures that may link many different concepts and modalities together, it can be difficult for AI developers to adjust their models to change the models’ behavior. If you don’t know what neurons connect what concepts, you won’t know which neurons to change. On May 21, Anthropic published a remarkably detailed map of the inner workings of the fine-tuned version of its Claude AI, specifically the Claude 3 Sonnet…

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Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks

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Some Generative AI Company Employees Pen Letter Wanting ‘Right to Warn’ About Risks

Some current and former employees of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic published a letter on June 4 asking for whistleblower protections, more open dialogue about risks and “a culture of open criticism” in the major generative AI companies. The Right to Warn letter illuminates some of the inner workings of the few high-profile companies that sit in the generative AI spotlight. OpenAI holds a distinct status as a nonprofit trying to “navigate massive risks” of…

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