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New Hampshire AG says Texas firm was behind AI-generated Joe Biden robocall
New Hampshire’s attorney general today named the alleged sources of a mysterious deepfake Joe Biden robocall last month that told Democrats in the state not to vote in the primary election, prompting more discussions on the regulation of artificial intelligence. Attorney General John Formella said the calls were traced to the telemarketing outfit Life Corp., ...
AI helps scholars decipher ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius eruption
A charred Roman scroll that was buried in the Vesuvius eruption in A.D. 79 has partly been decoded by a group of classical scholars thanks to a team of three young computer scientists working with artificial intelligence. The scroll is part of the Herculaneum Papyri, which includes about 1,800 scrolls that were discovered in the ...
Intel puts brakes on $20B chip plant project in Ohio
Intel Corp.’s $20 billion chip manufacturing project in Ohio reportedly will be delayed because of a lack of U.S. government grants and challenges in the market. It had been hoped that by 2025, the first two chipmaking facilities would be finished, but now it’s expected that the construction of the manufacturing plants won’t be ready ...
‘You have blood on your hands’: US senators blast social media leaders over child safety
The Senate Judiciary Committee today did not hold back in an hours-long hearing with five social media CEOs in what could amount to the introduction of online child safety laws in the U.S. The committee faced Meta Platforms Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg (pictured), X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino, TikTok Inc. Chief Executive ...
OpenAI introduces a new customized GPT feature
OpenAI will now allow paid users to choose from a number of specialized GPTs, or generative pretrained transformers, with each bringing a different personality and a unique level of performance to enhance the conversation. Users will access the standard ChatGPT interface from where they can use the “@” symbol and see a popup where there ...
Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in a human for the first time, according to Elon Musk
Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s U.S.-based neurotechnology company, implanted a chip in its first human subject over the weekend. “The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well,” Musk (pictured) tweeted today. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.” This is a milestone for the company, which hopes in the future that such ...
X criticized for being too slow to moderate pornographic AI-generated deepfakes of Taylor Swift
Pop star Taylor Swift is said to be “furious” after sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of her appeared en masse this week on the social media platform X Inc., formerly Twitter Inc. Synthetic prurient content developed by artificial intelligence is nothing new, but as AI sees vast improvements and the technologies become more widely ...
Amazon fined in France for excessively monitoring warehouse employees
France’s data protection agency announced today that it has fined Amazon.com Inc.’s French warehouses unit 32 million euros ($35 million) for using an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system to keep track of workers. The French Data Protection Authority, or CNIL, said the systems employed by Amazon France Logistique that keep an eye on workers for various ...
New Hampshire Democrats received AI-generated robocall from Joe Biden telling them not to vote
Concerns over the weaponization of generative artificial intelligence are again at the fore after Democrats in New Hampshire over the weekend received faked robocalls from President Joe Biden telling them not to bother voting in Tuesday’s primary election, according to the state attorney general’s office. It’s unclear just how many people received the call that ...
Japanese IT firm says it has a ‘moral duty’ to compensate those hurt in Britain’s Post Office scandal
In what’s now being called one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British history, the Japanese information technology services company Fujitsu Ltd. said on Tuesday that it has a “moral responsibility” to compensate the many victims. Between 1999 and 2015, about 900 people who worked for the U.K.’s government-owned Post Office were wrongly accused ...