US man sent a 14-year-old girl nude photos on Snapchat
A 29-year-old Indiana man is facing six criminal charges after authorities say he sent a 14-year-old New Jersey girl nude…
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Deepfake of US principal’s voice is the latest case of AI being used for harm
The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged last week from a Maryland high school, where police say a…
Microsoft CEO pledges RM8.10bil AI, cloud investment in Indonesia
Microsoft’s chief executive officer met the president of Indonesia on April 30, pledging a US$1.7bil (RM8.10bil) investment in artificial intelligence and…
Amazon Purr-rime: Cat accidentally shipped to online retailer
A curious cat that sneaked into an open box was shipped across the United States to an Amazon warehouse after…
UK police warn of ‘sextortion’ scams against teenage boys
UK law enforcement issued an urgent warning on April 29 about criminal gangs overseas targeting British teenagers in so-called sextortion…
AI faces its ‘Oppenheimer Moment’ during killer robot arms race
Regulators who want to get a grip on an emerging generation of artificially intelligent killing machines may not have much…
‘Brain rot’: When memes affect our intellectual capacities
If your vocabulary and conversational topics are dominated by Internet references, you may be suffering from “brain rot”. This unglamorous…
ChatGPT faces Austria complaint for ‘uncorrectable errors’
A Vienna-based privacy campaign group said April 29 it would file a complaint against ChatGPT in Austria, claiming the “hallucinating” flagship…
‘Harvesting data’: Latin American AI startups transform farming
For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns. Now, a new crop of Latin American…