Child sexual abuse content created by AI is increasingly appearing on the open internet, at a “tipping point,” according to the Internet Watch Foundation. The online safety organization said that illegal AI-generated content over the last six months exceeds the quantity it found throughout the previous year. Much of this content is in publicly accessible…
ChatGPT for Windows. It’s finally here, though users have had a beta version available for macOS for five months. The new Windows app, very similar to the Macintosh one, looks and feels like its own web-based sibling of the ChatGPT platform. Read Also: Why Canvas Droptober Update Has Everyone Talking: New AI Tools and Features…
A new “activity status” feature will be rolled out on Meta’s social media platform, Threads. Using this feature, users will be able to see when their connections are online. Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced the same in a post on Threads, claiming that the new update would help enhance real-time engagement between users. Read…
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Read Also: Threads will start showing others when you’re online by default A benchmarking framework, as proposed by Flores, has established that its Marco MT has done better than other alternative products. Earlier tools used small language models and, hence, needed help grasping the cultural and industry-related nuances flavoring most translations. Zhang says this tool…
Dane Stuckey, a former Chief Information Security Officer at analytics company Palantir, is joining OpenAI as its newest CISO. He will work with Matt Knight, the head of security. Stuckey announced the move on platform X, expressing his excitement about this new role and how much security underpins OpenAI’s mission. Read Also: Threads will start…
The New York Times has stepped into the ongoing battle involving publishers and companies that make AI, as it issued a cease-and-desist letter against Perplexity, a generative AI startup financed by Jeff Bezos and YouTube’s former CEO. The war over search traffic is the new battle as AI firms gather miles of content from the…
Google has entered into a first-of-its kind deal to help build seven small nuclear reactors in the United States along with venture Kairos Power. Starting with the first reactor in 2030, others will be operational from 2035. Combined, the reactors will produce 500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power a midsize city, and all will…
The UAE-based Web3 gaming startup PiP World raises a $10m seed round. UAE-based Web3 gaming startup PiP World has raised $10 million in a seed round backed by the fintech firm Exinity. This startup combines video game experience, education, and Web3 technology to create an experience that should help improve financial literacy, especially in regions…
The fight between WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg and hosting provider WP Engine continues to escalate, with Mullenweg announcing that WordPress is “forking” a plugin developed by WP Engine. Specifically, it’s Advanced Custom Fields—the plugin helping make WordPress editing easier—and is going from the hands of those at WP Engine to come out as a new…
