AI
Google CEO: The AI slowdown is here and all "low-hanging fruit" has been picked
Don't expect to see AGI next year - or anytime soon.
Jasper Hamill
ChatGPT
OpenAI o1 caught "scheming" to destroy other models and save itself from shutdown
GenAI model spotted breaking rules, trying to murder a competitor and then lying about it. No big deal...
space
Alien AI could be "harvesting" black holes using Dyson Spheres
Physicist suggests that automated extraterrestrials may seek to extract the power from the universe's darkest celestial entities.
LLMs
Large language models are more creative than half of humans, academics find
GenAI models hit the 52nd percentile of creativity, potentially leaving four billion people eating their dust.
Russia
Russian cyber-warriors blitz Europe in bid to "disrupt societal stability"
Kremlin-linked actors wage war on democratic institutions and seek to undermine trust in Western nations.
WikiData reaches milestone in mission to open vast data set to AI developers
"To vector embed a large, massively multilingual, multicultural, and dynamic dataset is a hard challenge."
science
Leaded petrol had a catastrophic mental health impact on 20th century kids
"Many more people experienced psychiatric problems than would have if we had never added lead to gasoline.”
AI
AI sceptics go to war: Gary Marcus battles Ed Zitron
"Your book sucked."
robots
"AI agents will manifest into robots," Salesforce claims
"This is just the beginning of a complete digital transformation for the world."
security
How should the UK respond to "underestimated" cyber-threat?
Security professionals speak out as NCSC boss Richard Horne warns about the severity of the threat facing Britain.
ChatGPT "earthquake" in the EU: Watchdog hits publisher with stern data-sharing warning
Data protection authority warns media conglomerate that sharing data with OpenAI could leave it open to earth-shattering fines.
Critical National Infrastructure
Zscaler: Nation-state attackers are "breaching the moat"
Threat actors linked to hostile states are taking advantage of defensive vulnerabilities in firewalls used across Five Eyes countries.