One of the first questions Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director, faced during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday was whether he was a “follower or promoter of QAnon.” Patel’s response to committee chairman Senator Chuck Grassley was unequivocal: “I have publicly rejected outright QAnon baseless conspiracy theories or any

Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022, hackers and security researchers have tried to find holes in large language models (LLMs) to get around their guardrails and trick them into spewing out hate speech, bomb-making instructions, propaganda, and other harmful content. In response, OpenAI and other generative AI developers have refined their

MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says

In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PST · January 31, 2025 Image Credits:Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty Images DeepSeek took the U.S. by storm this week: the Chinese company’s chatbot rose to the top of the Apple and Play stores, while major U.S. cloud providers like Microsoft began offering it on their platforms. But “hundreds” of companies

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The generative AI industry in the U.S. is getting a wake-up call, as are jittery investors who have seen their stocks rise with the AI boom in the last few years. That’s because a Chinese startup, DeepSeek, upended conventional wisdom about how advanced AI models are built and at what cost. The company reported in

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