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Anthropic, OpenAI sound alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlledThe CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI recently declared America's cutting-edge models are so powerful, they're dangerous, and need to be regulat...
In WWII, one Scottish island became a secret British bioweapon site, stayed toxic for 50 years. Now it is a popular tourist spotA picturesque island in the Scottish Highlands, degenerated into a contaminated wasteland during the Second World War. The British governme...
Trump-Xi meet: Will AI safety find its way to the discussion table?The exact agenda for the meeting has been kept under wraps, but according to US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, the discussion could incl...
They asked Claude to build missiles, anti-torpedo, and smallpox bioweapons: Anthropic uncovers AI's darkest misuse cases, including a live missile testAnthropic AI misuse report: Anthropic has revealed some of the most concerning ways users have attempted to misuse its AI model Claude, inc...
Uber layoffs impact India; RMG ban, a year onHappy Thursday! Uber is cutting jobs in India as part of a sweeping global restructuring. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
Scientists used AI to create 16 new viruses that never existed in nature; they worked and now experts fear how the technology could be usedResearchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to design entirely new viruses. These laboratory-tested viruses function as inte...
Top scientist wants to prevent AI from going rogueThe winner of the Turing Award, also known as the Nobel Prize for computer science, has been warning for several years of the risks of AI, ...
Rabbit fever, a 'rare' disease, sees over 50% rise in US: What are its symptoms and precautionary measures?Tularemia, also commonly known as 'rabbit fever' has witnessed more than 50 per cent rise in the US in recent years. Rabbit fever can sprea...
Laws need to catch up to artificial intelligence's unique risksOpenAI has spent the last year mired in scandal. The company's chief executive was briefly fired after the nonprofit board lost trust in hi...
OpenAI sees a future of AI 'superpowers on demand'More than 2 million developers are building on the OpenAI platform, while more than 100 million people use ChatGPT weekly, according to the...
UK's Rishi Sunak discusses AI risks with Kamala Harris at summit before chat with Elon MuskSunak organized the first-ever AI Safety Summit as a forum for officials, experts and the tech industry to better understand cutting-edge, ...
Covid-19 was created as a 'bioweapon' by China: Wuhan researcherThe deadly SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind Covid-19, was deliberately engineered as a "bioweapon" by China, claimed a researcher at the infamo...
China declines WHO Covid 'lab leak' theory, calls it a 'lie'China Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian has rejected accusations that China had not fully cooperated with WHO investigators. And su...
Truth is another front in Putin's warAs the war in Ukraine drags on, however, casualties are mounting, confronting families in Russia with the loss of fathers and sons. That co...
View: COVID-19, China’s bioweapon warfare strategy and global securityAn issue which needs to be discussed at length is whether Covid-19 is a mere virus having a natural origin or has it been developed in a la...
The misinformation guide: Coronavirus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theoriesTheir claims were explosive, but the evidence was weak.
Anatomy of a conspiracy: With COVID-19, China took leading roleA nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation conducted in collaboration with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Resear...
China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese militaryTop U.S. security officials have warned American labs against using Chinese tests because of concern that China was seeking to gather forei...
Vaccine skepticism hurts East European anti-virus effortsIn countries like the Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania and Bulgaria, vaccine skeptics have included former presidents and even some ...
Coronavirus infodemic in its second stage: Fact checkersIn India, fact-checkers tell ET, the coronavirus infodemic is now in its second wave of sorts (the first one was China-focused in January),...