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Chasing defamatory hallucinations, FTC opens investigation into OpenAI

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies about AI rules before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on May 16, 2023, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Win…

Musk announces new AI company that seeks to “understand the universe”

Enlarge / Elon Musk speaks via video link at the opening ceremony of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 6, 2023. (credit: REBECCA BAILEY/AFP via Getty Images) On Wednesday,…

Linux could be 3% of global desktops. What happened to Windows?

How can you argue against these numbers? (credit: 20th Century Fox / Aurich Lawson) According to one measurement by one firm, Linux reached 3.07 percent market share of global desktop operating systems in…

Judge sides with Microsoft in FTC injunction, unlocking final Activision battles

Enlarge / Attorneys carrying boxes arrive to court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. A judge has ruled that the FTC's reliance on the PlayStation chief's testimony was unpersuasive,…

New ChatGPT rival, Claude 2, launches for open beta testing

Enlarge (credit: Anthropic) On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude 2, a large language model (LLM) similar to ChatGPT that can craft code, analyze text, and write compositions. Unlike the original version of Claude launched…

Hackers exploit gaping Windows loophole to give their malware kernel access

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers are using open source software that’s popular with video game cheaters to allow their Windows-based malware to bypass restrictions Microsoft put in place to prevent such infections from…

Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists”

Enlarge / Comedian and author Sarah Silverman. (credit: Jason Kempin / Staff | Getty Images North America) On Friday, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed US federal class-action lawsuits on behalf of Sarah Silverman and…

OpenAI launches GPT-4 API for everyone

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI) On Thursday, OpenAI announced that all paying API customers now have access to the GPT-4 API. It also introduced updates to chat-based models, announced a shift from the Completions API…

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)

Enlarge (credit: AHMET YARALI/Getty) Meta's long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it's called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill, are vying for…

MOVEit app mass-exploited last month patches new critical vulnerability

Enlarge (credit: Lino Mirgeler/picture alliance via Getty Images) MOVEit, the file-transfer software exploited in recent weeks in one of the biggest cyberattacks ever, has received yet another security update that fixes a critical…