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Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
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Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan

ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.

November 15, 20232 min read
Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan
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Cyberattack Strikes OpenAI: ChatGPT and API outages linked to DDoS attack by Anonymous Sudan

ChatGPT suffered a cyberattack apparently tied to the Kremlin. A ChatGPT outage on November 8 most likely was caused by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, OpenAI revealed.

November 15, 20232 min read
Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models

Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.

August 23, 20232 min read
Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models
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Defcon Contest Highlights AI Security: A hacker competition to break guardrails around language models

Hackers attacked AI models in a large-scale competition to discover vulnerabilities. At the annual Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, 2,200 people competed to break guardrails around language models, The New York Times reported.

August 23, 20232 min read
Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI
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Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI

United States lawmakers are getting a crash course in AI. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, announced an unusual plan to educate legislators who are crafting AI regulations, The New York Times reported. It could lead to legislation “within months,” he said.

June 28, 20232 min read
Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI
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Washington Gears Up to Regulate: The plan to educate the U.S. Senate on AI

United States lawmakers are getting a crash course in AI. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, announced an unusual plan to educate legislators who are crafting AI regulations, The New York Times reported. It could lead to legislation “within months,” he said.

June 28, 20232 min read
Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
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Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.

An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.

June 1, 20232 min read
Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.
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Scanner Sees Guns, Misses Knives: AI scanner didn't detect a knife used in school attack.

An automated security-screening system failed to detect a weapon that went on to be used in an attack. Administrators at Proctor High School in Utica, New York, decommissioned an AI-powered weapon detector by Evolv Technologies after a student snuck a knife into the school, BBC reported.

June 1, 20232 min read
Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.
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Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.

French lawmakers said “oui” to broad uses of AI-powered surveillance. France’s National Assembly authorized authorities to test systems that detect unlawful, dangerous, or unusual behavior at next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The bill will become law unless the country’s top court blocks it.

April 19, 20231 min read
Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.
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Eyes on the Olympics: The 2024 Paris Olympics may have AI surveillance.

French lawmakers said “oui” to broad uses of AI-powered surveillance. France’s National Assembly authorized authorities to test systems that detect unlawful, dangerous, or unusual behavior at next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris. The bill will become law unless the country’s top court blocks it.

April 19, 20231 min read
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
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Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.

August 17, 20221 min read
Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?
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Bad Machine Learning Makes Bad Science: Is Machine Learning Driving a Scientific Reproducibility Crisis?

A recent workshop highlighted the impact of poorly designed AI models in medicine, security, software engineering, and other disciplines.

August 17, 20221 min read
Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone
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Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone

A weaponized AI system intended to protect students has been grounded. Axon, which makes law-enforcement equipment such as tasers and body cameras, canceled a plan to sell remote-controlled drones capable of firing electroshock darts.

June 15, 20222 min read
Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone
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Ethics Team Scuttles Taser Drone: Axon Cancels Plans to Sell a Taser Drone

A weaponized AI system intended to protect students has been grounded. Axon, which makes law-enforcement equipment such as tasers and body cameras, canceled a plan to sell remote-controlled drones capable of firing electroshock darts.

June 15, 20222 min read
Stopping Guns at the Gate: How Camden Yards uses AI to scan for weapons.
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Stopping Guns at the Gate: How Camden Yards uses AI to scan for weapons.

A Major League Baseball stadium will be using computer vision to detect weapons as fans enter.What’s new: A system called Hexwave will look for firearms, knives, and explosives carried by baseball fans who visit Camden Yards, home field of the Baltimore Orioles.

January 12, 20222 min read

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