Some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence companies have formed a group to research increasingly powerful AI and establish best practices for controlling it, as public anxiety and regulatory scrutiny over the impact of the technology increases. On Wednesday, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI launched the Frontier Model Forum, Read more…
Smartphones should be banned from schools to tackle classroom disruption, improve learning and help protect children from cyberbullying, a UN report has recommended. From a report: Unesco, the UN’s education, science and culture agency, said there was evidence that excessive mobile phone use was linked to reduced educational performance and Read more…
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s audacious eyeball-scanning crypto startup, has started the global rollout of its services to help build a reliable solution for “distinguishing humans from AI online,” enable “global democratic processes” and “drastically increase economic opportunity.” The startup, which has raised about $250 million altogether and counts Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Read more…
Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been hit by a cyber attack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe’s largest gas supplier and NATO’s northernmost member. “We identified a weakness in the platform of one of our suppliers. That weakness has now Read more…
Forbes’ senior writer on cybersecurity writes on the “warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse” in the United States. Here’s how county police armed with a “powerful new AI tool” identified the suspicious driving pattern of a grey Chevy owned by David Zayas: Searching through a database of 1.6 billion license Read more…
Editor/publisher Neil Clarke “said he recently had to temporarily shutter the online submission form for his science fiction and fantasy magazine, Clarkesworld,” reports CNN, “after his team was inundated with a deluge of ‘consistently bad’ AI-generated submissions.” “They’re some of the worst stories we’ve seen, actually,” Clarke said of the Read more…
T-Mobile has started charging customers who pay phone bills in-store a new $5 “Payment Support Charge,” plus tax. The new fee went into effect on July 19th, though prepaid customers will be charged the fee later on. From a report: In a flier shared with The Mobile Report announcing the Read more…