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US National Security Experts Warn AI Giants Aren’t Doing Enough to Protect Their Secrets

Susan Rice, who helped the White House broker an AI safety agreement with OpenAI and other tech companies, says she’s worried China will steal American AI secrets.

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Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch Cleared in US Fraud Trial

Mike Lynch, a software mogul once heralded as “Britain’s Bill Gates,” has been acquitted of fraud by a jury in the US.

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OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT

Days after former employees said the company was being too reckless with its technology, OpenAI released a research paper on a method for reverse engineering the workings of AI models.

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Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work

Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article.

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The Lords of Silicon Valley Are Thrilled to Present a ‘Handheld Iron Dome’

ZeroMark wants to build a system that will let soldiers easily shoot a drone out of the sky with the weapons they’re already carrying—and venture capital firm a16z is betting the startup can pull it off.

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Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

Investor Marc Andreessen called tech ethics and safety teams “the enemy” in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year. Today he clarified he’s in favor of online guardrails for his 9-year-old son.

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Google’s AI Overview Search Results Copied My Original Work

Google’s AI feature bumped my article down on the results page, but the new AI Overview at the top still referenced it. What gives?

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Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube

During a tour of Silicon Valley, EU vice president Věra Jourová said she expects tech giants to prioritize stamping out content that could distort democracy.

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Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco

Data on how often Google’s new AI Overviews feature appears on search results suggests that the company reduced its visibility even before recommendations like adding glue to pizza sauce went viral.

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OpenAI Employees Warn of a Culture of Risk and Retaliation

An open letter signed by former and current employees at OpenAI and other AI giants calls for whistleblower protections as the artificial intelligence rapidly evolves.

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