News in the Artificial Intelligence category

Brave browser launches privacy-focused AI assistant on Android

Brave Software is the next company to jump into AI, announcing a new privacy-preserving AI assistant called "Leo" is rolling out on the Android version of its browser through the latest release, version 1.63.
- Bill Toulas
- February 29, 2024
- 03:42 PM
- 0
OpenAI blocks state-sponsored hackers from using ChatGPT

OpenAI has removed accounts used by state-sponsored threat groups from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia, that were abusing its artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT.
- Bill Toulas
- February 15, 2024
- 10:56 AM
- 1
FTC offers $25,000 prize for detecting AI-enabled voice cloning

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a $25,000 top prize for ideas that protect consumers from the danger of AI-enabled voice cloning for fraudulent activity.
- Bill Toulas
- January 04, 2024
- 09:30 AM
- 2
Cybercriminals train AI chatbots for phishing, malware attacks

In the wake of WormGPT, a ChatGPT clone trained on malware-focused data, a new generative artificial intelligence hacking tool called FraudGPT has emerged, and at least another one is under development that is allegedly based on Google's AI experiment, Bard.
- Bill Toulas
- August 01, 2023
- 10:08 AM
- 0
Experts call for pause on AI training citing risks to humanity

AI professors and developers have co-signed an open letter to artificial intelligence labs, calling them to pause the development and training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.
- Bill Toulas
- March 29, 2023
- 10:25 AM
- 3
Microsoft brings GPT-4-powered Security Copilot to incident response

Microsoft today announced Security Copilot, a new ChatGPT-like assistant powered by artificial intelligence that takes advantage of Microsoft's threat intelligence footprint to make faster decisions during incident response and to help with threat hunting and security reporting.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 28, 2023
- 01:11 PM
- 0
Microsoft unveils AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot assistant

Microsoft has announced a new assistant powered by artificial intelligence to help boost productivity across Microsoft 365 apps, currently being tested by select commercial customers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 16, 2023
- 12:30 PM
- 5
DuckDuckGo launches AI-powered search query answering tool

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched the first beta version of DuckAssist, an AI-assisted feature that writes accurate summaries to answer users' search queries.
- Bill Toulas
- March 08, 2023
- 10:22 AM
- 7
Brave Search launches AI-powered summarizer in search results

Brave Search has incorporated a new AI-powered tool named Summarizer, which gives a summarized answer to an inputted question before the rest of the search results.
- Bill Toulas
- March 03, 2023
- 11:46 AM
- 1
Microsoft adds AI-powered Bing Chat to Windows 11 taskbar

Microsoft announced today that it's integrating the new AI-powered Bing Chat into the Windows 11 search box with the latest Windows feature update.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 28, 2023
- 09:00 AM
- 1
Microsoft to test Bing Chat tones, allows longer chat sessions

Microsoft will start testing Bing Chat tones, enabling users to switch between receiving answers that are either more creative or more focused on their queries.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 21, 2023
- 12:45 PM
- 1
Bing Chat's secret modes turn it into a personal assistant or friend

Bing's new AI chat has secret chat modes that can be used to change the AI bot into a personal assistant, a friend to help with your emotions and problems, a game mode to play games with Bing, or its default, Bing Search mode.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 17, 2023
- 10:35 AM
- 5
GitHub Copilot update stops AI model from revealing secrets

GitHub has updated the AI model of Copilot, a programming assistant that generates real-time source code and function recommendations in Visual Studio, and says it's now safer and more powerful.
- Bill Toulas
- February 15, 2023
- 04:03 PM
- 0
Microsoft launches new AI chat-powered Bing and Edge browser

Microsoft announced on Tuesday a new version of its Bing search engine powered by a next-generation OpenAI language model more powerful than ChatGPT and specially trained for web search.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- February 07, 2023
- 04:37 PM
- 7
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-written text

OpenAI has released an AI text classifier that attempts to detect whether input content was generated using artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT.
- Lawrence Abrams
- January 31, 2023
- 02:57 PM
- 0
Trojan Puzzle attack trains AI assistants into suggesting malicious code

Researchers at the universities of California, Virginia, and Microsoft have devised a new poisoning attack that could trick AI-based coding assistants into suggesting dangerous code.
- Bill Toulas
- January 10, 2023
- 03:20 PM
- 0
ChatGPT banned in NYC schools over learning impact concerns

The NYC Department of Education has banned the use of ChatGPT by students and teachers in New York City schools as there are serious concerns about its use hampering learning and leading to misinformation.
- Bill Toulas
- January 05, 2023
- 01:14 PM
- 1
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 dangerous things it's capable of

OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT bot is making waves when it comes to all the amazing things it can do—from writing music to coding to generating vulnerability exploits, and what not. As the erudite machinery turns into a viral sensation, humans have started to discover some of the AI's biases, like the desire to wipe out humanity.
- Ax Sharma
- December 06, 2022
- 07:23 AM
- 4
OpenAI's new ChatGPT bot: 10 coolest things you can do with it

From precisely spotting security vulnerabilities in your code, to writing an entire block of functional code on a whim, to opening portals to another dimension, OpenAI's newly launched ChatGPT is a game changer with its possibilities seeming limited only by your limitedness.
- Ax Sharma
- December 05, 2022
- 03:42 AM
- 4
Microsoft adds AI-driven ransomware protection to Defender

Microsoft has introduced an AI-driven ransomware attack detection system for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers that complements existing cloud protection by evaluating risks and blocking actors at the perimeter.
- Bill Toulas
- November 16, 2021
- 10:31 AM
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