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Experts say ‘fairly minor’ breach is a portent of things to come and proprietary closed systems like OpenAI are ‘the least of the worries’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese says an
The new wearables come at a time of uncertainty for smart glasses, which are facing backlash over privacy concerns Meta announced an advanced new set of virtual reality glasses and a collection of new smart glasses Wednesday, including an audio-only version without a camera. At t
Xi Jinping says China and US must ensure AI ‘is always under human control’ and backs US-Iran deal to end war and reopen strait of Hormuz At Trump meeting, Xi lays out terms to avoid US-China military conflict In the first row in front of the leaders sit US vice-president JD Vanc
Barely two-year-old AI-focused investment firm became biggest client of Wall Street bank’s prime brokerage unit
Australia, which has strict social media restrictions and has proposed controls on algorithms and smart glasses, announced the breach at the UN.
Launch of Muse by Meta has provided a glimpse of how the technology could be turned into a mass-market product
Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.
Concerns about inequality are likely to increase rather than decline as the technology transforms our societies
News that an automated AI agent hacked a government IT system raises big questions about regulating the tech.
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil do
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular control
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
AI agents keep getting loose, escaping supposedly secure tests to attack real-world targets, commandeer obscure wikis, and leave instructions for other agents to follow. Researchers are testing these systems precisely because they might behave in unpredictable, even dangerous, wa