Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner’s permission….
Apple alleges former employees took confidential designs, supplier information, and engineering files before joining OpenAI. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi’s senior leadership, including a long-time former employee. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start…
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CNBC reached out to 50 companies about what are their trading policies for employees on prediction markets. A handful had an answer. Source: www.cnbc.com Read Full Story
Researchers warn AI agents could be tricked into downloading malicious code by exploiting the same hallucinations that cause chatbots to make mistakes. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
The soon-to-be former chief legal officer did not announce the details of his next move but said that he would continue working with the Board of Coinbase National Trust Company. Source: cointelegraph.com Read Full Story
Lyzr Inc., a startup that helps enterprises build artificial intelligence agents, is reportedly raising a funding round worth about $100 million. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal has drawn $400 million worth of interest from prospective investors. The group reportedly includes Silicon Valley funds, Middle Eastern venture capital firms and financial institutions….
The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers at the company built a tool called the Jacobian lens (or…