Open source AI is gaining momentum across major players. DeepSeek recently announced plans to share parts of its model architecture and code with the community. Alibaba followed suit with the release of a new open source multimodal model aimed at enabling cost-effective AI agents. Meta’s Llama 4 models, described as “semi-open,” are among the most…
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AI continues to be the biggest thing in tech, so it’s no wonder hackers want to take advantage of it in their attacks on unsuspecting victims. A few days ago, we learned of a clever campaign on social media platforms like TikTok, where hackers uploaded clips narrated by AI that convinced users to install malware…
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I never liked the AI Overviews that populate Google Search results, but Google Search just added a few AI features that I’d actually enjoy. The Simplify tool works only in the Google app, using AI to make complex text easier to understand. Then there’s the even more useful AI Mode, which essentially puts a chatbot…
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The past year has been crucial for Ukrainian-British tech cooperation. As one of the leading IT service exporters, Ukraine’s presence in the UK has never been stronger, with business ties growing deeper. Recently, the IT Ukraine Аssociation (ITU) published a comprehensive report on the state of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. According to the report, Digital…
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It’s been a few weeks since Apple announced its most important Apple Intelligence feature would be delayed indefinitely. Facing a huge crisis with its AI platform, the company has shaken up its structure to finally deal with Siri and give it a proper revamp.After all, the last time Apple announced a product that wasn’t ready…
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Banks and tech firms are coming together in an initiative to share information on fraud to give them visibility of the attacks targeted at customers. The collaboration is part of Stop Scams UK’s intelligence-sharing pilots, which have brought together banks such as HSBC, NatWest and Santander with tech firms Amazon, Google and Meta. Mobile telecommunications…
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Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a “red line” humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare…
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Technology companies are bracing themselves for more attacks on encryption after the UK government issued an order requiring Apple to create a back door to allow security officials access to content uploaded on the cloud by any Apple phone or computer user world-wide. The government has used powers under UK surveillance laws to issue a…
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Google parent company Alphabet has dropped its pledge to not use artificial intelligence (AI) in weapons systems or surveillance tools, citing a need to support the national security of “democracies”. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, in a blogpost published Jun 2018, previously outlined how the company would “not pursue” AI applications that “cause or are likely…
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An obscure British government committee is to be asked this month to advise Home Secretary Yvette Cooper whether to go ahead with government demands that Apple provide British agents with a secret backdoor to break into the companies iCloud Advanced Data Protection system, enabling British spies to secretly copy and read users’ private data. …
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