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Three weeks after relaunching its internet-browsing feature in beta after months, OpenAI launched it on ChatGPT. Until September 2021, ChatGPT, the generative AI chatbot that has taken the world by storm, was limited to data, making it useless as a real-time search engine. OpenAI began offering internet services to ChatGPT …

Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC, Comcast Ventures, Ex/ante, Parameter Ventures, and Nat Friedman’s AI Grant. Co-founder and CEO Ben Colman plans to double Reality Defender’s 23-person team next …

Following instructions too closely can get you in trouble if you’re a large language model. A new Microsoft-affiliated scientific paper examined the “trustworthiness” and toxicity of large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. The co-authors suggest that GPT-4 may be more susceptible to “jailbreaking” prompts that bypass the …

LinkedIn announced a rollout of AI-powered tools across the company this month. It’s laying off 668 workers today, a future-focused announcement. An informed source says 563 layoffs will be in R&D, affecting engineering, product, talent, and finance teams. The cuts, announced this morning, come five months after LinkedIn cut 716 …

One-sided Möbius strips are fun geometric shapes. A strip of paper has a front and back. Twist and glue the short edges. Suddenly, no front or back. You could draw a line across its surface without lifting the pencil. Mathematicians proposed the minimum strip size 46 years ago but couldn’t …

According to a new report from app subscription service Setapp, 42% of Mac users use AI-based apps daily, and 63% believe they are more beneficial than those without AI. Mac app developers are also adopting AI, with 44% having implemented AI or machine learning models and 28% working on it. …

At Token2049, it was hard to tell the crypto industry was in “winter” mode. The September crypto conference in Singapore drew an unprecedented 20,000 attendees, who visited hundreds of side events across the city to avoid the expensive main event ticket. While the government’s actions against FTX, Ripple, Binance, and …

Was Didi’s 2020 autonomous vehicle subsidiary a Chinese equivalent to Uber’s? Since then, China’s tech landscape has changed, with internet firms regulated and foreign investments plummeting due to U.S.-China tensions. Despite Beijing’s data security probe into Didi’s parent company, its AV unit has survived and received new funding. Didi Autonomous …

The generative AI movement relies on large language models (LLMs) to interpret and create human-language texts from simple prompts, such as summarizing a document, writing a poem, or answering a question using data from multiple sources. Bad actors can use “prompt injection” to trick an LLM-powered chatbot into giving unauthorized …

According to Yepic AI, it uses “deepfakes for good” and will “never reenact someone without their consent.” However, the company did what it said it would never do. Yepic AI sent a TechCrunch reporter two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not consented to their likeness, in an unsolicited …