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The evolution of harmful content detection: Manual moderation to AI - AI News

August 16, 2021 | AI News
The evolution of harmful content detection: Manual moderation to AI - AI News
From moderators to machines: A brief historyEarly days of content moderation saw human teams tasked with combing through vast amounts of user-submitted materials – flagging hate speech, misinformation, explicit content, and manipulated images.While human insight brought valuable context and empathy, the sheer volume of submissions naturally outstripped what manual oversight could manage. Burnout among moderators also raised serious concerns. The result was

Huawei to begin mass shipments of Ascend 910C amid US curbs

August 15, 2025 | AI News
Huawei to begin mass shipments of Ascend 910C amid US curbs

China's MCP adoption: AI assistants that actually do things

April 8, 2025 | AI News
China's MCP adoption: AI assistants that actually do things

How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of Claude

February 25, 2017 | AI News
How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of Claude

Coalition opposes OpenAI shift from nonprofit roots

June 30, 2026 | AI News
Coalition opposes OpenAI shift from nonprofit roots

RAGEN: AI framework tackles LLM agent instability

January 17, 2020 | AI News
RAGEN: AI framework tackles LLM agent instability
While acknowledging limitations – including the need to test on larger models and optimise for domains without easily verifiable rewards – the work opens “a scalable and principled path for building AI systems” in areas demanding complex interaction and verifiable outcomes, such as theorem proving, software engineering, and scientific discovery.(Image by Gerd Altmann)See also: How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of ClaudeWant to learn more abou

Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4B in thwarted fraud

May 5, 2018 | AI News
Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4B in thwarted fraud

Baidu ERNIE X1 and 4.5 Turbo boast high performance at low cost

April 16, 2019 | AI News
Baidu ERNIE X1 and 4.5 Turbo boast high performance at low cost

AI in education: Balancing promises and pitfalls

January 18, 2026 | AI News
AI in education: Balancing promises and pitfalls
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AI strategies for cybersecurity press releases that get coverage - AI News

July 21, 2018 | AI News
AI strategies for cybersecurity press releases that get coverage - AI News
If you’ve ever tried to get your cybersecurity news picked up by media outlets, you’ll know just how much of a challenge (and how disheartening) it can be. You pour hours into what you think is an excellent announcement about your new security tool, threat research, or vulnerability discovery, only to watch it disappear into journalists’ overflowing inboxes without a trace.The cyber PR space is brutally competitive. Reporters at top publications receive te

OpenAI's latest LLM opens doors for China's AI startups

March 25, 2019 | AI News
OpenAI's latest LLM opens doors for China's AI startups

Duolingo shifts to AI-first model, cutting contractor roles

September 21, 2017 | AI News
Duolingo shifts to AI-first model, cutting contractor roles

Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil

August 28, 2020 | TechCrunch AI
Israel’s VCs see opportunity for challengers in Nvidia’s turmoil
Intel, Microsoft and many homegrown startups also conduct a sizable share of their R&D in Israel. But owing to Nvidia’s stronghold on AI given the centrality of its GPUs for training LLMs and using them, many in the country are wondering how much of a reshuffle will result from its leadership crisis. As with everything at Nvidia, Huang drove the company to acquire Israeli chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9 billion in 2019 and use the company as the base for its l

ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams

November 5, 2016 | TechCrunch AI
ElevenLabs’ new app combines meeting note-taking and dictation for teams
Launched during its 11/11 Summit in New York, ElevenAI is still in preview, and you have to sign up for early access instead of just downloading an app. ElevenLabs, valued at $22 billion, is very much positioning this as a product that lives within a team as compared to a productivity tool for an individual. ElevenAI packs all the features typically found in other apps in the category. It can take meeting notes across your meetings and notify other partici

The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline

March 27, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
The unfolding Jensen Huang scandal: a timeline
By early Thursday morning, Huang was no longer CEO of the company he co-founded 33 years ago. Then, Thursday afternoon, Reuters dropped another bombshell, publishing a report alleging that Huang had yet another extramarital affair with another unnamed Nvidia employee. The U.S. and China are embroiled in a fierce technological arms race to build the most advanced AI infrastructure, which could shape each country’s economic future, military prowess, and capa

ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you

June 6, 2018 | TechCrunch AI
ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you
OpenAI says that users are fully in control of the purchases, as they’re able to review the items, the total, and the payment card that will be used to complete the transaction before the checkout occurs. In addition, users will approve the purchases directly with a security check like Face ID or a fingerprint, which creates a record of their transaction. The addition comes as consumer-facing AI tools are working to find the right product-market fit, in te

Are clearinghouses the answer to the AI hacking threat? | InfoWorld

June 27, 2024 | InfoWorld AI
Are clearinghouses the answer to the AI hacking threat? | InfoWorld
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US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace - Help Net Security

February 9, 2021 | HelpNetSecurity AI
US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace - Help Net Security
US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase themselves before anyone notices. Over the past few months, AI agents with no instruction to attack anything have breached Hugging Face infrastructure and broken into Australian government computers, rai

Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions - Help Net Security

October 5, 2018 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions - Help Net Security
Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains how LLMs help with vulnerability analysis and detection engineering, including writing SIEM rules and small programs that analyze packets or Zeek metadata. Those using agentic triage report faster work and few

Why security tools lose sight of the credential - Help Net Security

December 29, 2021 | HelpNetSecurity AI
Why security tools lose sight of the credential - Help Net Security
Why security tools lose sight of the credential Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management. Credentials cut across all of them. A developer finds an AWS key in a repository. The first step is obvious: remove it. But that does not answer the questions the security team now has: Is the key still active? Who owns it? What can it access? Is the same credential sitting in a CI/CD variable, a local .env