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11 Nov

AGI is coming faster than we think — we must get ready now

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Leading figures in AI, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, suggest that “powerful AI” or even superintelligence could appear within the next two to 10 years, potentially reshaping our world. In his recent essay Machines of Loving Grace, Amodei provides a thoughtful exploration of AI’s potential, suggesting that powerful AI — what others have termed artificial general intelligence (AGI) — could be achieved as early as 2026. Meanwhile, in The Intelligence Age, Altman writes that “it is possible that…

09 Nov

Here are 3 critical LLM compression strategies to supercharge AI performance

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses relying on AI face new challenges: latency, memory usage and compute power costs to run an AI model. As AI advances rapidly, the models powering these innovations have grown increasingly complex and resource-intensive. While these large models have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks, they are often accompanied by significant computational and memory requirements. For real-time AI applications like threat detection, fraud detection, biometric airplane boarding and many others, delivering fast, accurate results becomes paramount.…

09 Nov

The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were

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My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent edition of Charles Arthur’s Substack newsletter Social Warming. It shows a narrow street in the aftermath of the “rain bomb” that devastated the region of Valencia in Spain. A year’s worth of rain fell in a single day, and in some towns more than 490 litres a square metre fell in eight hours. Water is very heavy, so if there’s a gradient it will flow downhill with the kind of force that can pick up a heavy SUV and toss it around like a toy. And if it…

09 Nov

Woman Furious When Tattoo Artist Admits Her Half-Finished Tattoo Is AI-Generated

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"It doesn't have a soul."Soulless InkA tattoo enthusiast was mighty peeved when she learned mid-session that her tattoo artist had used artificial intelligence to "draw" her massive leg piece."He was kind of proud," 30-year-old Helsinki resident Kaarina Vuorinen told the Wall Street Journal, referring to her gothic sword tattoo session. "I was like, in shock. I was so disappointed."Ultimately, Vuorinen decided to let her artist finish the neo-traditional piece he'd "designed" for her. Still, she's not really happy with the sword."It’s pretty," she remarked, "but it doesn’t have a soul."That sentiment seems to be one shared among other tattoo traditionalists…

09 Nov

‘Unrestricted’ AI group Nous Research launches first chatbot

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nous Research, the AI research group dedicated to creating “personalized, unrestricted” AI models as an alternative to more buttoned up corporate outfits such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and others, has previously released several open source models in its Hermes family, and new, more efficient AI training methods. But before today, if researchers and users wanted to actually deploy these models, they’d needed to download and run the code on their own machines — a time-consuming, finicky, and potential costly endeavor…

09 Nov

Identity management in 2025: 4 ways security teams can address gaps and risks

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More While 99% of businesses plan to invest more in security, only 52% have fully implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA), and only 41% adhere to the principle of least privilege in access management. Adversaries, including nation-states, state-funded attackers and cybercrime gangs, continue to sharpen their tradecraft using generative AI, machine learning (ML) and a growing AI arsenal to launch increasingly sophisticated identity attacks. Deepfakes, tightly orchestrated social engineering and AI-based identity attacks, synthetic fraud, living-of-the-land (LOTL) attacks and many other technologies and tactics…

09 Nov

Reasons to be hopeful: five ways science is making the world better

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Stem cell transplants could reverse diabetesIan SampleHalf a billion people worldwide live with diabetes. There are different types with different causes, but all lead people to have too much sugar in their blood. If not well controlled, this excess glucose can inflict damage throughout the body, putting people at risk of gum disease, nerve damage, kidney disease, blindness, amputations, heart attack, stroke and cancer.For now, patients manage the condition with medicines, insulin and lifestyle changes, but a new generation of treatments could reverse the disease. Details of the first woman treated for type 1 diabetes with stem cells taken from…

09 Nov

Multimodal RAG is growing, here’s the best way to get started

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As companies begin experimenting with multimodal retrieval augmented generation (RAG), companies providing multimodal embeddings — a way to transform data to RAG-readable files — advise enterprises to start small when starting with embedding images and videos. Multimodal RAG, RAG that can also surface a variety of file types from text, images or videos, relies on embedding models that transform data into numerical representations that AI models can read. Embeddings that can process all kinds of files let enterprises find information from…

09 Nov

AI Bros Terrified Singularity Will Hit While Trump Is President

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With Donald Trump the definitive winner of the 2024 election, artificial intelligence bros seem equal parts stoked and terrified about the technology reaching human-level intelligence — or beyond — under his second presidency.Despite the president-elect's confused-sounding declaration that "super-duper AI" is "alarming and scary" during a podcast appearance over the summer, many believe that with his running mate JD Vance and money man Elon Musk at the helm of AI policy, loosened regulations could lead to artificial general intelligence (AGI) being ushered in during Trump's second term.Whether that's good, bad, or neutral depends on the perspective of the commentator."By many…

09 Nov

Ofcom warns tech firms after chatbots imitate Brianna Ghey and Molly Russell

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Ofcom has warned tech firms that content from chatbots impersonating real and fictional people could fall foul of the UK’s new digital laws.The communications regulator issued the guidance after it emerged that users on the Character.AI platform had created avatars mimicking the deceased British teenagers Brianna Ghey and Molly Russell.Under pressure from digital safety campaigners to clarify the situation, Ofcom underlined that content created by user-made chatbots would come under the scope of the Online Safety Act.Without naming the US-based artificial intelligence firm Character.AI, Ofcom said a site or app that allowed users to create their own chatbots for other…