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AI-generated Al Michaels to provide daily recaps during 2024 Summer Olympics

Enlarge / Al Michaels looks on prior to the game between the Minnesota Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on September 14, 2023, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday,…

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Mac malware that steals passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data has been spotted circulating through Google ads, making it at least the second time in as many months…

OpenAI’s new “CriticGPT” model is trained to criticize GPT-4 outputs

Enlarge / An illustration created by OpenAI. (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI researchers unveiled CriticGPT, a new AI model designed to identify mistakes in code generated by ChatGPT. It aims to enhance the…

Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora

Enlarge / A screen capture from the partially AI-generated Toys "R" Us brand film created using Sora. (credit: Toys R Us) On Monday, Toys "R" Us announced that it had partnered with an…

Critical MOVEit vulnerability puts huge swaths of the Internet at severe risk

Enlarge A critical vulnerability recently discovered in a widely used piece of software is putting huge swaths of the Internet at risk of devastating hacks, and attackers have already begun actively trying to…

Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs

Enlarge / Illustration of a brain inside of a light bulb. (credit: Getty Images) Researchers claim to have developed a new way to run AI language models more efficiently by eliminating matrix multiplication…

Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms

Enlarge / Michael Jackson in concert, 1986. Sony Music owns a large portion of publishing rights to Jackson's music. (credit: Getty Images) Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Records have sued AI…

Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) WordPress plugins running on as many as 36,000 websites have been backdoored in a supply-chain attack with unknown origins, security researchers said on Monday. So far, five plugins are…

Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K car dealerships for days

Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 5, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images) CDK Global touts itself as…

Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company

Enlarge / Ilya Sutskever physically gestures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on at Tel Aviv University on June 5, 2023. (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, former OpenAI Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever announced…