AI & ML

Aug 7 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety protocols. Under OpenAI’s ‌safety guidelines, a model reaches the “critical” threshold if it can autonomously identify and exploit severe, real-world software vulnerabilities, known

SAO PAULO, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank said on Friday that some cryptocurrency transfers will ‌have to be delayed by up to 24 hours under new anti-fraud rules.  The central bank said the ​move reflects the growing use ⁠of virtual assets, including ​stablecoins, to quickly move money obtained ​through financial scams. The rule, which takes

BRUSSELS, July 31 (Reuters) – The European Commission is in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over recent hacking incidents involving their AI models, Commission officials said on Friday, ‌as they touted landmark EU rules requiring strict monitoring of high-risk systems. Europe’s AI Act, which kicks in on August 2, is the first legislation in the world to

July 31 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google said on Friday it was rolling back an AI image-generation feature it had introduced in Google Earth just a day ago, after users shared ‌images that appeared to violate the company’s policies. The feature, powered by Google’s Nano Banana 2 AI model, had allowed users to generate photorealistic

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) – Anthropic on Friday launched Opus 5, its latest AI model that the startup says nears the capabilities of its more powerful cousin Fable 5 at half the price. The San Francisco-based lab said the new Claude AI model ⁠was well suited for daily office and computer programming tasks. In an interview

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 24 (Reuters) – For Hassan Butt, a 17-year-old British student volunteering at the Farnborough airshow this week, there was nothing cooler than watching the planes and thinking about the physics that kept them airborne.   “Everyone when they’re kids, they ‌look up, they see the planes flying and they think, damn…” he

July 10 (Reuters) – A new AI detection tool from Meta (META.O), opens new tab, which the tech company previewed this week alongside the launch of its image-generation model, Muse ‌Image, failed to identify some of its own AI-generated images once they were cropped, according to a Reuters analysis. The finding highlights the challenges of verifying AI-generated images

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10 (Reuters) – Altera, a maker of programmable chips spun out of Intel (INTC.O), opens new tab, is growing roughly 20% a year and more than doubling operating income as it prepares for an eventual public listing, Chief Executive Raghib Hussain told Reuters in ‌an interview. Altera became fully independent last September after Intel

BENGALURU, July 3 (Reuters) – India’s HCLTech (HCLT.NS), opens new tab has won a $1.14 billion deal with a ‌major European firm, the software services exporter said on Friday. The announcement pushed HCLTech’s shares up by as much as 6.3%, boosting gains on the Nifty IT index, which ⁠was up 2.7%. Here are some details: The ​deal will help

BRUSSELS, July 2 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google on Thursday lost its long-running fight against a record EU antitrust fine for using its Android mobile operating system ‌to block rivals, a court ruling which is seen as likely to boost Europe’s crackdown on Big Tech. The European Commission, the bloc’s antitrust regulator, has fined Google