SCMagazine.com reported that “Microsoft has discovered a new method to jailbreak large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) tools and shared its ongoing efforts to improve LLM safety and security in a blog post Thursday.” The April 15, 2024 article entitled ” Microsoft’s ‘AI Watchdog’ defends against new LLM jailbreak
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SCMagazine.com reported “An active attack targeting a vulnerability in Ray, a widely used open-source AI framework, has impacted thousands of companies and servers running AI infrastructure — computing resources that were exposed to the attack through a critical vulnerability that’s under dispute and has no patch.” The March 26, 2024
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BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “Artificial intelligence technologies such as generative AI are not helping fraudsters create new and innovative types of scams. They are doing just fine relying on the traditional scams, but the advent of AI is helping them scale up attacks and snare more victims, according to fraud researchers
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Computerworld.com reported that “More than 150 leading artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, ethicists and others have signed an open letter calling on generative AI (genAI) companies to submit to independent evaluations of their systems, the lack of which has led to concerns about basic protections. The letter, drafted by researchers from MIT
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CNN.com reported that “A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.” The February 4, 2024 article entitled “Finance worker pays out
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Computerworld reported that “Apple is planning its first AI acquisition for 2024, a German firm called brighter AI, according to an online news report.” The February 5, 2024 article entitled “Apple has eye on building bigger genAI data sets” (http://tinyurl.com/bde7fxau) and included these comments:
Apple is beginning to
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NOT A SURPRISE SINCE 95% OF ALL LAWSUITS SETTLE that Computerworld.com reported that “While details of the settlement have not been disclosed, Google’s lawyers, reportedly, maintain that the internet giant did not violate Bates or Singular’s patents in any manner.” The January 25, 2024 article entitled “Google settles $1.7 billion
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Computerworld.com reported that “The US, the UK, and the EU are all looking into Microsoft’s connections to ChatGPT creator OpenAI.” The January 23, 2024 report entitled ” Regulators probe Microsoft’s OpenAI ties — is it only smoke, or is there fire?” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712002/regulators-probe-microsofts-openai-ties-is-it-only-smoke-or-is-there-fire.html) included these comments:
…Microsoft faces several
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BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “In its annual report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council – a team made up mostly of financial regulators and chaired by the secretary of the Department of the Treasury – highlighted AI’s potential to spur innovation but flagged its ability to introduce “certain risks.” “. The December 18
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GovInfoSecurity.com reported that “European lawmakers and officials announced a compromise late Friday over a regulation on artificial intelligence in the works since 2021, making the trading bloc first in the world to comprehensively regulate the nascent technology.” The December 8, 2023 report entitled “Europe Reaches Deal on AI Act, Marking
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