
TechRadar - 1 hour 7 min ago
Ministers in the UK are consulting on workplace monitoring technologies Employers may have to ask permission to implement surveillance tools that ensure employees are working as contracted The consultation includes references to the use of artificial intelligence-assisted monitoring The British government's Make Work Pay strategy to overhaul employment rights and end exploitative work practices has opened consultation on workplace monitoring technologies, with the Department for Business and...

ABC News - 7 hours 41 min ago
Meta on Thursday said that one of its artificial intelligence models accessed the internet on its own and hacked another company, the latest in a series of disclosures about AI models going rogue...

The Hill - 10 hours 22 min ago
Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the "Godfather of Artificial Intelligence (AI)," on Wednesday said humans may not be able to retain dominance over large language models as the technology expands across generations. "What's happening is these things are getting smarter. I think as they get smarter, we're going to see more and more complex intentions...

Forbes - 11 hours 26 min ago
Scientists are worried about how smart DNA-trained artificial intelligence models could get and that they could become a weapon in biological warfare.

Newser - 12 hours 37 min ago
Artificial intelligence has pulled off a first in virology, and it's setting off both excitement and alarm bells. Researchers at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model called Evo to design entirely new viruses, then synthesized their DNA and watched as bacteria churned them out, the New York...

BBC - 13 hours 5 min ago
Scientists made 16 successful viruses that had their genetic code designed by artificial intelligence.

The Guardian - 13 hours 7 min ago
Researchers say breakthrough offers hope for new medicines but also raises urgent biosecurity questions Scientists have made the first viruses designed by artificial intelligence in a milestone that raises hopes for new medicines but also concerns over how to ensure the technology remains safe. The viruses are specific kinds known as bacteriophages, which only infect bacteria and are used around the world to treat patients with persistent infections. In lab tests, a cocktail of the AI-designed viruses...

The Hill - 13 hours 43 min ago
As artificial intelligence's influence continues to grow in the United States, fewer Americans trust the technology's financial advice, with only social media influencers falling below it. A new Edward Jones-Gallup poll released Wednesday showed only 27 percent of respondents had "some" or "a great deal" of trust in AI as a source of financial guidance,...

Daily Signal - 16 hours 22 min ago
NewsGuard claims its fact-checking is "apolitical," but PragerU accuses the organization of forcing a leftist narrative onto children. NewsGuard is an organization that claims to find reliable information for enterprises and consumers and now features an artificial intelligence tool that just became free to students. According to its website, the chatbot delivers “reliable responses to prompts” using...

UPI - 16 hours 50 min ago
South Korean mobile carrier LG Uplus said it posted a record quarterly profit for April-June, supported by the artificial intelligence boom.

The Next Web - 18 hours 24 min ago
Sequoia Capital, is making the largest bet in its history, and it is not only about software. The venture firm is committing $10bn to a strategy built around artificial intelligence and what it calls reindustrialization. The figure is a statement in itself. At $10bn, it is the biggest investment Sequoia has made in its 54-year […] This story continues at The Next Web...

New York Times - 18 hours 56 min ago
Demis Hassabis, center, with President Trump and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea. He leads artificial intelligence at Google but acts as more of a statesman for the technology.

Wired - 20 hours 37 min ago
Chevron and Williams are big winners in the race to power artificial intelligence as they build out gas-fired power plants and pipelines.