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Exponential growth brews 1 million AI models on Hugging Face

Enlarge (credit: Hugging Face / anucha sirivisansuwan via Getty Images) On Thursday, AI hosting platform Hugging Face surpassed 1 million AI model listings for the first time, marking a milestone in the rapidly…

Tails OS joins forces with Tor Project in merger

Enlarge (credit: The Tor Project) The Tor Project, the nonprofit that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, is joining forces with Tails, the maker of a portable operating system that uses Tor.…

Ars in San Jose recap: Infrastructure, sustainability, AI, cocktails

Enlarge / Dr. John Timmer, Jeff Ball, Joanna Wong, and Lee Hutchinson discussing infrastructure and the environment. (credit: Kimberly White/Getty Images) Last week, Ars Technica Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher and I made the westerly…

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal body that sets technology standards for governmental agencies, standards organizations, and private companies, has proposed barring some of the…

Talking to ChatGPT for the first time is a surreal experience

Enlarge / Putting the "chat" in ChatGPT. (credit: Getty Images) In May, when OpenAI first demonstrated ChatGPT-4o's coming audio conversation capabilities, I wrote that it felt like we were "on the verge of…

OpenAI CTO Murati shocks with sudden departure as two other execs leave

Enlarge / Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California, on October 17, 2023. (credit: PATRICK T. FALLON via Getty…

OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity

Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI) On Wednesday, Reuters reported that OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation, moving away from control by its…

Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When security researcher Johann Rehberger recently reported a vulnerability in ChatGPT that allowed attackers to store false information and malicious instructions in a user’s long-term memory settings, OpenAI summarily…

Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator

Enlarge / Filmmaker James Cameron. (credit: James Cameron / Stability AI) On Tuesday, Stability AI announced that renowned filmmaker James Cameron—of Terminator and Skynet fame—has joined its board of directors. Stability is best…

11 million devices infected with botnet malware hosted in Google Play

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Five years ago, researchers made a grim discovery—a legitimate Android app in the Google Play market that was surreptitiously made malicious by a library the developers used to earn…