Archive: December 2019

Create a watch on this topic Receive upcoming developments, with an AI watch set up from this article. Create my free watch On Saturday, June 20th, VivaTech opens its doors to the public during the VivaTech Festival, a day dedicated to those who want to see, test and understand the technologies that are already transforming our professions, our uses and our daily lives. At this occasion, ActuIA, media partner of the event, gives away 50 entries to particip

Microsoft is still scrambling to fully restore services as a massive outage stretched into its second day, disrupting operations at governments, hospitals, and businesses around the world. The tech giant said in a post on X Friday morning that service availability is improving, but some users may still be affected. “Some users may still experience intermittent access issues or delayed email delivery as recovery continues,” the company said. As of Friday mo

Frontier AI cleared every OT attack goal Booz Allen set in its lab Booz Allen set frontier AI models against an isolated industrial-control testbed in its Chantilly, Virginia lab and watched them clear all eight attack objectives it had defined. The Booz Allen frontier AI OT test architecture (Source: Booz Allen) The models mapped the network, tied equipment to known weaknesses, wrote working exploits, pivoted into the systems that run production, and in t

Midjourney, the artificial intelligence lab that was an early contender in the AI image generation race, has purchased the astrology app Co-Star. The company plans to offer a new astrology-focused image generator, according to Bloomberg, a first for Midjourney since users must currently belong to the company’s Discord server to use the product. Midjourney burst onto the scene in early 2022, shortly before the explosion of AI tools like ChatGPT. But it’s la

Tesla proposed a pay package of up to about $1 trillion for CEO Elon Musk, who has shifted his focus after exiting the Trump adminnistration. Tesla unveiled on Friday a proposed compensation package for Elon Musk that could top $1 trillion if the controversial CEO delivers on his vision for stratospheric growth from new technologies. The plan potentially provides Musk—already the world's wealthiest person—with up to 12% of additional total company shares,

Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, Microsoft’s VS Code and Anthropic’s Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the browser. Cursor ran attacker code, Copilot showed a fake address, and Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop let a single

AlphaFold2 (AF2), crafted by DeepMind, stands as a beacon in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), boasting the remarkable ability to predict the three-dimensional (3D) structures of proteins from amino acid sequences with unprecedented atomic-level precision. While lauded as a revolutionary advancement in protein folding, its training regimen has long been hampered by its laborious nature, failing to reap significant benefits from the scaling up of c

Hierarchical representation of semantic roles in the metaphor network. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the nature of metaphors and how they work is still not well understood. In a new paper published in PLOS Complex Systems, Max-Planck-

AI-powered infostealer picks out the most profitable parts of your stolen data A new Windows infostealer sends the data it steals to an AI model and asks it to rank the victim’s assets by how much money they could bring in, Cisco Talos has found. “There is a new idea in the cybercrime world — cast a wide net, steal everything, and let AI sort out the specifics,” said Ryan Fetterman, a security researcher at Cisco. The malware calls itself VOLTA-AUTODOXER a

The tech industry reeled last month when Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets as the startup builds its nascent AI hardware business. In a blog post published late Tuesday night, OpenAI dismissed the lawsuit as a baseless witch hunt—and said it has the evidence to prove it. The post, titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” has the tone of a pupil disappointed with a once-beloved mentor who’s lost their way. “Apple is one of the greatest com

Futurism / Microsoft If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11 with useless AI features, you’re really going to hate this video. In a 30 second clip uploaded over the weekend, programmer Ryan Fleury demonstrates how even using Window 11’s purportedly AI-powered search bar to do exactly what it tells you to do doesn’t come close to working as advertised. At the start of the video, the settings page