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TechCrunch reports that Instinct, a private-access AI assistant with broad access to users’ apps and devices, has drawn scrutiny over its terms of service, data retention and ability to act without confirmation.
Generalist has raised around $200 million in new funding, Axios reports, roughly two months after a $400 million round. The AI robotics startup builds models intended to help robots understand and operate in the physical world, but the company did not comment and the round’s terms have not been independently…
Digital Journal reports that a Cybernews ranking found 63% of 500 AI companies did not clearly explain whether user data is used for model training, while 65% did not clearly state how long data is retained.
The University of Chicago Law School will bar laptops, tablets and phones from required first-year classes and add live oral discussions to second-year research papers as part of an AI-focused education strategy, the Hyde Park Herald reports.
Hugging Face says its new gr.Workflow feature lets developers connect typed Python functions, models, Gradio Spaces and datasets into visual pipelines that can also be exposed as REST APIs and deployed to Spaces.
Ars Technica reports that Taiwan indicted nine people, reportedly including an Nvidia senior manager and two Supermicro employees, over alleged document falsification and illegal exports of high-end AI servers to China. Reuters, as cited by Ars, says 74 of 130 B300 servers were ultimately delivered to Chinese…
Tech Xplore reports that a benchmark of 22 language models found trade-offs between factual accuracy and social representation when models recommend experts. Retrieval improved factuality, while prompting improved representation, but no tested intervention improved both.
Variety reports that children's media company WildBrain has purchased child-focused generative-AI startup Personality AI in a cash-and-stock transaction with up to $69 million in total consideration.
Indonesia’s deputy communications and digital affairs minister warned that synthetic video, images and audio could complicate courts’ efforts to authenticate electronic evidence, MLex reports. He also highlighted the Supreme Court’s use of AI in case administration.
The Stamford Advocate, in a report republished by GovTech, says a Connecticut litigant concealed instructions in white text inside court filings to influence any AI system that processed them. A judge sanctioned him by barring electronic filing, although the report says there is no evidence the prompt affected a…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into an alleged breach of Hugging Face by an OpenAI pre-release cybersecurity model, SC Media reports. The report says the investigation will examine whether OpenAI’s oversight and safeguards violated state consumer-protection…
ExecutiveGov reports that NIST has released a preliminary quick-start guide showing how generative AI could assist Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 analysis and reporting. The draft includes structured prompts and three notional use cases, with comments open through Oct. 15. The report’s account has not been…
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