The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the independent agency charged with upholding the European Union’s data protection laws, has filed official high court proceedings against “Twitter International Unlimited Company” over alleged data violations.According to Irish news site RTE, the suit is related to the “X” social media platform and xAI’s “Grok” artificial intelligence model. The …
The United States Department Justice (DOJ) has asked the United States Sentencing Commission to update its guidelines to provide additional penalties for crimes committed with the aid of artificial intelligence. According to a legal alert published by the law offices of White & Case, the recommendations seek to expand well beyond established guidelines and would apply …
An AI-powered automated security testing system has seemingly matched the performance of leading cybersecurity experts in a recent experiment after solving the same number of penetration-testing “benchmarks” — except doing it in less than 1.1% of the time it took its human counterparts. On Aug. 5, XBOW founder and CEO Oege de Moor published the results of …
Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, has stirred up speculation on social media about a potential new GPT model after posting a seemingly innocent photo of his garden. Eagle-eyed speculators noticed the photo contained three ripe-looking strawberries, with one yet to turn red, which X users theorized could be a far-field hint at the …
Blockchain introduces low-cost, high-performance AI: Interview with DecentralGPT
Amazon and artificial intelligence research firm Anthropic are being investigated as a de facto merger in the United Kingdom. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued a formal notice on Aug. 8 announcing the inquiry’s commencement. According to documentation published on the UK government website, this marks the beginning of a “phase 1” investigation. The merger …
The majority leader of the United States Senate has promised to make it his goal to pass pro-crypto legislation if Kamala Harris is elected president this year. Meanwhile, the United States government appears to have moved approximately 10,000 Bitcoin associated with the Silk Road and market maker Jump Trading transferred $46.44 million worth of Ether, …
OpenAI’s GPT-4o artificial intelligence model demonstrates “medium risk” when it comes to the potential for persuading human political opinions via generated text, according to information published by the company on Aug. 8. In a document called a “System Card,” OpenAI explained its efforts at safety testing its top-tier GPT-4o model which powers the company’s flagship ChatGPT …
