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Google removed Chamet, a popular but controversial live video chat app, from the Play Store. Reported that the app violated its user-generated content (UGC) policy. The company did not comment but cited its policy that “Apps whose primary purpose is featuring objectionable UGC will be removed from Google Play.” The …

OpenAI wants ChatGPT in classrooms, despite its high risk of misuse and confusion. The company has suggested ways for teachers to use the system beyond its traditional role as a research assistant for procrastinating students. Dubious use case of unknown prevalence: plagiarism makes the chatbot controversial. Teachers worldwide have caught …

A global law enforcement operation dismantled the Qakbot botnet this week, the largest U.S.-led financial and technical disruption of a botnet infrastructure. Qakbot, a banking trojan, is notorious for giving other hackers access to a victim’s network to install ransomware. In 18 months, Qakbot has enabled over 40 ransomware attacks …

BeFake, an AI-augmented social network based on Gen Z app BeReal, raised $3 million in seed funding. The app’s name, a play on BeReal’s authentic photo sharing among friends, implies the opposite. BeFake users grab photos with both the front and back cameras and customize them with AI using in-app …

Meta released FACET, a new AI benchmark, today to assess the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect objects and people in photos and videos. FACET, a tortured acronym for “Fairness in Computer Vision EvaluaTion” with 32,000 images of 50,000 people labeled by human annotators, accounts for occupations and …

A UK parliamentary committee investigating artificial intelligence’s opportunities and challenges has urged the government to reconsider its decision not to introduce legislation to regulate the technology in the short term and to make an AI bill a ministerial priority. Committee chair Greg Clark writes in a statement today accompanying the …

Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced several new generative AI enhancements to its security product line to make it easier to find information from massive security data by asking plain language questions. These new capabilities are designed to do more with less, according to Google cloud security UX …

Duet AI, Google’s generative AI features for text summarization, data organization, and more, is expanding to Google Cloud products and services. At its annual Cloud Next conference, Google announced that Duet AI, still in preview with general availability later this year, can now help with code refactoring, or improving code …

A recent report found that industrial manufacturers experience 800 hours of unplanned downtime per year, or more than 15 hours per week. Unexpected troubleshooting costs $50 billion annually and lowers productivity and revenue. Most companies manually troubleshoot, but Austin, Texas-based ControlRooms.ai wants to change that. The company’s AI-powered analytics app …

Data mining for insights is becoming more valuable to companies. According to NewVantage, 97.6% of global corporations are investing in big data and AI. Big data analytics faces obstacles. A recent poll found that 65% of organizations have “too much” data to analyze. Google’s BigQuery Studio, a new service within …