Archive: March 2018

LLM may consider emoticons that humans use to express emotions as part of the instructions, ultimately leading to catastrophic consequences (such as deletion of critical data). Credit: Jiang et al. Large language models (LLMs), artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can process and generate texts in various languages, are now widely used by people worldwide. These models have proved to be effective in rapidly sourcing information, answering questions, c

Published on October 30, 2026 at 4:00 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © 01net $500 billion wiped out in a single trading session: Alphabet has just recorded the worst stock-market day in its history. And the culprit was born in its own laboratories. Alphabet’s stock plunged nearly 13% on Thursday, wiping out approximately $500 billion in market capitalization. Never before seen for Google’s parent company since it went public in 2004, the previous record, an 11.63% d

Anthropic has revealed that it will soon watermark content that is processed (not just generated!) by any of its models. In a support article, Anthropic explained that it was rolling out machine-readable watermarks to comply with the European Union’s AI Act, which requires all AI system providers to watermark AI-generated or manipulated audio, image, text, and video outputs. The law applies to any AI model released after August 2 and provides a grace perio

On Monday, a court granted the US government’s request to deny release of a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging a top-secret conference room to steal the frontier lab’s secrets. In a court filing Sunday, US attorney Craig Missakian argued that Abdulrahman Alfozan must continue to be detained while the US makes its case that Alfozan brazenly spied on OpenAI, either for his own personal business gain or to benefit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Evidence

Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of juicy personal data. Google has long said it won’t use the sensitive data from products like Gmail, Drive, and Photos for ad personalization, but a change to the company’s privacy policy appears to dismantle that firewall. On October 16, Google issued an update to its privacy policy, spotted by Android Authority. The

US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 29, 2026 The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. According to two sources cited by Reuters, department officials are asking whether the purchase could give Nvidia control over a key hub for distributing AI and hurt its competito

OpenAI plans to train models on Daybreak Blue cybersecurity session data that was previously off-limits Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 Starting November 29, OpenAI will use Daybreak Blue session data to train its models. An email to Trusted Access program members confirmed the change. Previously, this data was excluded from training, even when users had the "improve the model for everyone" setting turned off. Ba

A spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington dismissed the allegations in late October as “groundless smears and slanders,” and no one has been charged. But U.S. intelligence officials reportedly briefed President Donald Trump about their concerns a year ago, and unnamed senior officials inside the Trump administration told the Times that they doubt Huang could have remained unaware all that time of Alice Huang’s intelligence-gathering role for Chi

Chip race: Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Nvidia battle it out for AI chip supremacySee all StoriesPosted Nov 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM UTCSExternal LinkStevie BonifieldGoogle announced two new versions of its eighth-gen AI chips.It says the new TPU 8tx is for confidential computing for government agencies and regulated businesses, while the 8i Max is aimed at AI applications with large context windows. Google also announced its TPU 8t and 8i in April, for a total

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. The artists in our early access group have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E and have served as key voices as we’ve made decisions about DALL·E’s features.