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Linwei Ding, facing four counts of theft of trade secrets, accused of transferring confidential information to his personal accountA Chinese software engineer has been arrested for allegedly stealing artificial intelligence technology from Google while secretly working for two Chinese companies.Linwei Ding, 38, also known as Leon Ding, faces four counts of theft of trade secrets, US attorney general Merrick Garland said in a statement. Continue reading...

Shane Jones said he warned management about the lack of safeguards several times, but it didn’t result in any actionAn artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft published a letter Wednesday alleging that the company’s AI image generator lacks basic safeguards against creating violent and sexualized images. In the letter, engineer Shane Jones states that his repeated attempts to warn Microsoft management about the problems failed to result in any action. Jones said he sent the mes

The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCRMicrosoft has responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the New York Times over alleged use of content to train generative artificial intelligence, calling the claim a false narrative of “doomsday futurology”. The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCR.In a motion to dismiss part of the lawsuit

The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCR.Microsoft has responded to a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the New York Times over alleged use of content to train generative artificial intelligence, calling the claim a false narrative of “doomsday futurology”. The tech giant said the lawsuit was near-sighted and akin to Hollywood’s losing backlash against the VCR.In a motion to dismiss part of the lawsui

Employers are letting artificial intelligence conduct job interviews. Candidates are trying to beat the systemWhen Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic.“The voice sounded similar to Siri,” said Ty, who is 29 and lives in the DC metro area. “It was c

ChatGPT maker releases emails that claim businessman supported plan to create for-profit entityOpenAI has hit back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing it of betraying its altruistic roots, claiming the Tesla chief executive had in fact supported the artificial intelligence company’s plans to create a for-profit unit.Executives at the ChatGPT maker released a blogpost containing what it claimed was historical email correspondence with Musk in which the entrepreneur suggested merging the S

A ‘poorly considered’ use of AI has resulted in a perplexing number of fingers – and a large amount of mockeryGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAt first glance, if you squint, you might think it was a photograph: a couple nuzzling together in the front row of a concert hall, in a Facebook advertisement for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO).But look again and you’ll see why it’s caused a stir among creative workers and the union representing them. The