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A Radical Plan to Make AI Beneficial, Not Destructive Anthropic, a startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, says it has a plan. Its goal is to use machine learning to build smart AI that won’t turn against its creators. It’s based on principles taken from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other…

ChatGPT user arrested in China for spreading fake news In a statement released by the police, Hong is accused of using ChatGPT to write fake news articles. The articles were viewed over 15,000 times before being removed. Chinese authorities have detained a man in the Gansu province and traced the articles to an independent company…

Anthropic AI startup wants to write new constitution for safe AI Anthropic is a bit of a unknown quantity in the AI world. Its current focus, Kaplan tells The Verge, is a method known as constitutional AI — a way to train AI systems like chatbots to follow certain sets of rules (or constitutions). The…

New Ransomware ‘CACTUS’ Variant Emerges That Exploits VPN A new ransomware strain called CACTUS has been observed at large commercial entities since March 2023, with attacks employing double extortion tactics to steal sensitive data prior to encryption. Learn how to stop ransomware attacks in their tracks with real-time MFA and service account protection in this…

Researchers uncover new server-based polymorphism technique used by SideWinder This latest SideWinder campaign targets Turkey, and it uses a server-based polymorphism technique to deliver the next stage payload. This comes shortly after Fortinet and Team Cymru disclosed details of attacks perpetrated by a Pakistan-based threat actor known as SideCopy against Indian defense and military targets.…

Operation ChattyGoblin: Hackers Targeting Gambling Firms via Chat A gambling company in the Philippines has been hit by a China-aligned threat actor. According to cybersecurity firm ESET, this is part of a campaign that has been going on since October 2021. ESET also notes that India- and Pakistan-linked threat actors Donot Team and SideWinder have…

An AI Model that can Segment Objects in Videos with a Notion of Object P Chatbot Arena is a crowdsourcing LLM benchmarking platform that allows users to compare and contrast two anonymous machine-learning models against each other in real-time. They’ve developed a new technology called Chatbot Arena to help them more easily measure the performance…

This AI Wrote 95 Percent of a Murder Mystery Gus Dupin saw the motorboat come up on Stony Lake. He was a Peggy Firmin scholar, but he had been so cut off in his cottage that he hadn’t heard the news of her passing. Learning of Peggy’s death was like learning about the death of…

AI Novels: The Future of Literature? ChatGPT lets the author input a single line of text and have it generate an infinite number of outputs. If the writer doesn’t like what ChatGPT writes, he can edit or ask for another one. For example, the author could ask ChatgPT to prove that a character in his…

Microsoft AI-powered Copilot expands preview with new features In this announcement, Microsoft announces that it’s expanding the preview access to its Microsoft 365 Copilot, a digital assistant based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 that brings AI-powered capabilities across Microsoft 365 apps and services. Prior to this expansion, only 20 customers had been able to test the technology.…