Reuters Investigation: 'We wanted to craft a perfect phishing scam. AI bots were happy to help':

Exclusive: ASML becomes Mistral AI’s top shareholder after leading latest funding round, sources say reut.rs/3V5300c

OpenAI reverses course, says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations

Alibaba released an new version of its main AI model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, claiming it achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models. Models at HuggingFace: huggingface.co/organization... #AI #Alibaba #Qwen3

French scientist denied US entry after officers find phone messages criticizing Trump

OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models

Popular AI chatbots sometimes use Russian disinformation spread by a network of sites targeting those chatbots, fake news research platform NewsGuard reports based on an analysis. #AI #NewsGuard #Chatbot #Russian #Propaganda

Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that North Korea was responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange ByBit reut.rs/4bkWf1s

Chinese company Alibaba has released a publicly available video generation model that. Wan 2.1 is built on up to 14 billion parameters and can create videos in 720p at 30fps - although it is not clear how long generated videos can be. See: github.com/Wan-Video/Wa... #AI #Alibaba #Video #Wan2.1

Alibaba will release an open-source version of its video and image-generating artificial intelligence model, Wan 2.1, the Chinese tech giant said in a post on X reut.rs/3D7M03N

A study by researchers at OpenAI into the software engineering capabilities of SOTA AI models shows Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats OpenAI’s GPT-4o, and even its reasoning model o1, on the new SWE-Lancer benchmark (openai.com/index/swe-la...) See: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12115 #AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #SWE-Lancer

In El Pais, Marita Alonso takes a critical look at the growing sex technology market. "...to educate the [human] gaze to avoid objectification. Apparently, Levy was right when he said that sex with robots is going to be inevitable. What can be avoided is the repetition of toxic patterns." #AI #Sex

The Grok 3 AI model, of Elon Musk's company xAI, was instructed to censor unflattering facts about Donald Trump and Elon Musk himself: techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/g... #AI #xAI #Grok #Grok3 #Misinformation #Censorship

OpenAI writes it has blocked a number of accounts that used ChatGPT to develop a suspected AI-based surveillance tool. OpenAI has partnerships, with U.S. National Laboratories for nuclear weapon research and Anduril, to deploy AI on the battlefield. #AI #OpenAI #PR #War

The European Commission is going to charge Google with violating the Digital Markets Act, Reuters reports. The tech giant is said to favor its own search services on its platforms. Google's previously proposed changes are said to be insufficient to meet the complaints. #EU #DMA #BigTech #Google

OpenAI rolls out its AI agent, Operator, in several countries

Microsoft Research and Xbox studio Ninja Theory have teamed up to create a new generative AI model, called Muse, that can generate gameplay. Xbox sees potential in this model, among other things, optimizing classic games for newer devices. See: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #Xbox #Muse #WHAM

Journalists at The New York Times will have access to various generative AI tools, including a self-developed system, news website Semafor reports based on internal messages. The NYT emphasizes that journalists should not rewrite entire paragraphs with the tools. #AI #Semafor #NYT

OpenAI is going to pay the Guardian Media Group for the use of articles to train AI models and will provide source references through snippets and other means. The publisher of The Guardian says it has entered into a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI: #AI #OpenAI #TheGuardian

Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years

Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age - https://www.theverge.com/news/610512/google-age-estimation-machine-learning

Thomson Reuters wins an early court battle over AI, copyright, and fair use

The European Data Protection Board (www.edpb.europa.eu/edpb_en) says Chinese AI tool DeepSeek may face further regulatory actions in the future. Several European data protection authorities have raised concerns about how DeepSeek handles users' personal data. #AI #DeepSeek #EU #EDPB #GDPR

Anthropic CEO Amodei calls the AI Action Summit a "missed opportunity". With the turbulent developments, he sees the need to "move faster and with greater clarity". He warns for dominance by authoritarian countries. JD Vance said in Paris that the US will dominate AI. #AI #AIActionSummit #Anthropic

French President Macron and EU's digital chief Virkkunen promised more business-friendly rules to help AI; calling for investment in the EU. "It's very clear we have to resynchronise with the rest of the world.", Macron said Virkkunen told Reuters she had gotten the message #AI #EU #AIActionSummit

The United States and Britain have not signed the Paris AI Summit's declaration entitled 'Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence' reut.rs/4gBzSG5

Proud that my country has chosen to stand alongside Trump and Vance in dismissing any regulation that might prevent AI from harming humans and destroying the world, this shows that the UK is serious about growth www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

BBC researchers gave four publicly available AI assistants – ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity – access to the BBC website and asked them about news articles. Journalists then reviewed the responses and judged that there were many 'significant issues': www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... #AI #BBC

At the AI ​​Action Summit in Paris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an EU investment of €50 billion in AI and an additional €8 billion for AI factories. "The AI race is far from over," she said. #AI #EU #AIActionSummit

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

The new Gemini 2.0 models (blog.google/technology/g...) have been added to the AIME 2025 Leaderboard: matharena.ai #AI #Gemini #AIME #Leaderboard

According to a YouGov poll, a majority of Brits support strict controls on AI systems that could exceed human capabilities. 87% support a law requiring AI developers to demonstrate that their systems are secure, before release, while 60% support a ban on the development of AGI models. #AI #AGI #UK

The ACLU says it stands ready to sue for access to government records that detail DOGE's access to sensitive personnel data.

Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the "most damning evidence" yet that Meta illegally trained its AI models on pirated books.

X must release info enabling researchers to track the spread of election-swaying info on the network, a Berlin court ruled today. The ruling was in response to an urgent filing brought this week by civil society organizations, the Society for Civil Rights and Democracy Reporting International:

UK government demands Apple backdoor to encrypted cloud data: report

At policy institute Chatham House, Georgia Cole (www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our...) writes "The third global AI summit convenes amid fears the EU is falling behind America and China in the race to exploit the economic potential of artificial intelligence...": #AI #EU #USA #China #AIActionSummit

The Mozilla community is advocating for openness, accountability, and fairness in AI. They ask you to add your name to their petition to demand AI policies that prioritize people over profits: #AI #Mozilla #AIActionSummit

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that France and the UAE announced an investment of “€30 to €50 billion” to build a massive data center dedicated to artificial intelligence in France. TechCrunch picked up the story, from: www.msn.com/fr-fr/actual... #AI #Europe #UAE #France #AIActionSummit

GitHub has released several new features for its Copilot AI coding assistant, including the ability to make changes to multiple files at once. GitHub is also previewing a native agent that will be able to perform tasks independently: #AI #GitHub #Copilot #SWE

Ahead of the AI ​​Action summit in Paris, Lisa Soder (www.interface-eu.org/persons/lisa...) wrote about the geopolitical landscape and changing attitude of Europe towards AI: #AI #Europe #AIActionSummit

NEW: Elon Musk’s DOGE is working on a custom chatbot called GSAi. The project is part of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s ambitions to use AI and other technologies to cut costs and modernize the US government.

At the AI Action Summit in Paris, Yann André LeCun, Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research, talks about 'Open'-AI and Zuckerberg's dubious "masculine energy": #AI #AIActionSummit #Meta #Manosphere

Leading the U.S. delegation, Vice President J.D. Vance will attend the AI summit in Paris (www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-po...) : apnews.com/article/vanc... ...but the US delegation won't include AI Safety Institute staff: #AI #AIActionSummit

Congressman Josh Gottheimer, D New Jersey, and Darin LaHood, R Illinois, have introduced the "No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act", which would ban federal employees from using DeepSeek's app on government-owned devices The US Navy and NASA already took action against the app's use #AI #DeepSeek

OpenAI has introduced data residency in Europe. In the past data regulators have targeted OpenAI for its potential noncompliance with local data laws Please note that the US CLOUD Act amends the SCA in such a way that authorities can also request data from abroad in certain cases #AI #OpenAI #GDPR

Mistral AI released updates to Le Chat, its AI assistant. Not only the web interface is updated, they are releasing a mobile app: iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/le-ch... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d... Mistral AI also introduced a Pro tier for €/$ 14.99 per month. #AI #Mistral #LeChat

In the The Wall Street Journal's Tech News Briefing host Pierre Bienimé talks to retail reporter Kate King and WSJ's tech reporter Miles Kruppa about DeepSeek and AI model 'distillation' - as 'New Scary Buzzword for AI Companies': #AI #WSJ #LLM #Distillation

Last december OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Search to every signed in user - but that last requirement has now been removed: chatgpt.com (This does not apply to the native mobile app. In the app you still need to be signed in.) #AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Search