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Google Maps receives privacy upgrades reportedly designed to end geofence warrants
New privacy enhancements introduced for Google Maps this week are reportedly designed to end geofence warrants from law enforcement agencies, according to a new report. Google announced the enhancements in question on Wednesday. On Thursday, Forbes cited an employee of the search giant as saying that the update was “explicitly” designed to end geofence warrants. ...
OpenAI details automated approach to supervising AI models
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, which focuses on addressing the risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence models, today published its first research paper. The group was formed in June under the leadership of OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever and head of alignment Jan Leike. Over the next four years, it will have access to 20% of the ...
GM’s Cruise autonomous vehicle unit lets go 900 employees, plus nine execs
General Motors Co.’s Cruise autonomous driving unit is laying off 900 employees, or nearly a quarter of its workforce, amid a major overhaul of its commercialization efforts. The job cuts were first reported by TechCrunch this morning. A Cruise spokesperson later confirmed the move, sending parent company GM’s stock up more than 6% in trading. The ...
Microsoft disrupts cybercrime group that created 750M+ fake accounts
Microsoft Corp. has shut down the U.S.-based infrastructure of a cybercrime group that created more than 750 million fraudulent accounts across the company’s services. Microsoft carried out the takedown, which it detailed on Wednesday, with the help of a venture-backed cybersecurity provider called Arkose Labs Inc. The latter company sells a cloud platform that helps ...
OpenAI inks content licensing deal with Axel Springer
OpenAI will license news content from Axel Springer SE, the parent company of Politico and Insider, to improve its large language models. The partnership was announced this morning. It comes a few months after OpenAI inked a similar content licensing agreement with the Associated Press. Berlin-based Axel Springer is a media company majority owned by ...
Tesla rolls out Autopilot update to 2M+ vehicles after NHTSA safety investigation
Tesla Inc. is releasing a software update to practically all the vehicles it has sold in the U.S. to address a safety issue affecting its Autopilot partly autonomous driving system. The patch will become available for 2,031,220 vehicles, according to a filing released today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tesla began distributing the ...
Microsoft details three OAuth-focused hacking campaigns
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday detailed three hacking campaigns that made use of OAuth, a technology commonly used to let workers log into business applications with their Microsoft and Google accounts. OAuth also lends itself to a number of related tasks. It allows workers to sign into applications with accounts tied to their company’s Active Directory ...
GoLinks debuts AI-powered search engine and employee directory
Startup GoLinks Inc. today introduced two new products, an enterprise search engine and an employee directory tool, that use artificial intelligence to help users find information faster. San Jose, California-based GoLinks is backed by more than $27 million in funding from Y Combinator, Mayfield and other investors. Its flagship product is a URL shortener for ...
CommerceHub acquires AI startup Cadeera and rebrands to Rithum
Online retail software provider CommerceHub Inc. today announced that it has acquired U.K.-based startup Cadeera to expand its artificial intelligence capabilities. The company disclosed the deal in conjunction with a major rebrand. CommerceHub, which has operated under its current name for more than two decades, will be known as Rithum Holdings Inc. going forward. Rithum ...
Cohere adds support for custom data connectors to its flagship LLM
Cohere Inc., a well-funded artificial intelligence startup, today introduced a connector development tool for its flagship Command large language model. Customers can use the tool to build integrations that enable Command to retrieve data from external applications. That data, in turn, allows the model to answer user questions it otherwise wouldn’t be capable of processing. ...