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US prosecutors have charged three men with using AI to copy the voices and faces of company bosses and lawyers, tricking staff into wiring about $129m. The indictment was unsealed on Thursday, the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan said.
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An AI plush toy marketed for children as young as three gave a self-harm crisis reply to a question that had nothing to do with self-harm, a BBC investigation found. The BBC published its findings on Thursday. The toy, called Doubao, is sold online in the UK as My Baby Bunny for £75.
An AI teddy bear that’s been marketed for three-year-olds has made unprompted references to suicide, a BBC report has revealed — amid calls for the industry to be regulated.
ChatGPT’s new Intelligent UI can create interactive tools directly in your conversation. I tested six very different ideas to see how useful they really are.
New research shows politeness to AI is growing, despite public opposition.
Samuel Gibbs doubted he could cut costs and still keep warm by putting tech in control. The results surprised him Can smart thermostats and AI reduce your heating bills? Every manufacturer claims the answer is yes, quoting average savings in the 25%, or £180 a year range.
Three Republican House committee chairs have asked Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang to attend a closed-door briefing on 18 November. They want to ask about his contacts with Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, and how Nvidia guards against spies.
Google has bought Crusoe’s data centre site in southeast Wyoming and will build the project itself, after pledging $17B there. Bloomberg had reported Crusoe was pushed aside after failing to sign customers. Terms were not disclosed.
Microsoft is winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle after declining to renew it, Bloomberg reports. The servers ran older Nvidia chips. Microsoft is reassessing more than $80B in contracts with outside cloud providers.
Elon Musk said government contracts will make up less than 10% of SpaceX’s revenue this quarter, down from 16.6%. SpaceX now earns most from renting AI computing, with Anthropic its biggest customer, though Anthropic can exit from early 2027.
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