Ryan Daws

Beijing is expected to ramp up sophisticated AI-generated disinformation campaigns to influence several high-profile elections in 2024, according to Microsoft’s threat intelligence team. Microsoft warned that state-backed Chinese cyber groups – with assistance from North Korean actors – “are likely to target” the presidential and legislative elections in countries such as the US, South Korea,... Read more » The post Microsoft: China plans to disrupt elections with AI-generated disinformation appeared first on AI News.

The UK and US have signed a landmark agreement to collaborate on developing rigorous testing for advanced AI systems, representing a major step forward in ensuring their safe deployments. The Memorandum of Understanding – signed Monday by UK Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan and US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo – establishes a partnership to align the... Read more » The post UK and US sign pact to develop AI safety tests appeared first on AI News.

Databricks has announced the launch of DBRX, a powerful new open-source large language model that it claims sets a new bar for open models by outperforming established options like GPT-3.5 on industry benchmarks.  The company says the 132 billion parameter DBRX model surpasses popular open-source LLMs like LLaMA 2 70B, Mixtral, and Grok-1 across language... Read more » The post Databricks claims DBRX sets ‘a new standard’ for open-source LLMs appeared first on AI News.

A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) sheds light on the potential impact of AI on the UK job market. The study warns of an imminent ‘job apocalypse’, threatening to engulf over eight million careers across the nation, unless swift government intervention is enacted. The report identifies two key stages of generative... Read more » The post IPPR: 8M UK careers at risk of ‘job apocalypse’ from AI appeared first on AI News.

The UN General Assembly has adopted a landmark resolution on AI, aiming to promote the safe and ethical development of AI technologies worldwide. The resolution, co-sponsored by over 120 countries, was adopted unanimously by all 193 UN member states on 21 March. This marks the first time the UN has established global standards and guidelines... Read more » The post UN passes first global AI resolution appeared first on AI News.

An AI tool has proven capable of detecting signs of cancer that were overlooked by human radiologists. The AI tool, called Mia, was piloted alongside NHS clinicians in the UK and analysed the mammograms of over 10,000 women.  Most of the participants were cancer-free, but the AI successfully flagged all of those with symptoms of... Read more » The post AI tool finds cancer signs missed by doctors appeared first on AI News.

NVIDIA has announced its next-generation Blackwell GPU architecture, designed to usher in a new era of accelerated computing and enable organisations to build and run real-time generative AI on trillion-parameter large language models. The Blackwell platform promises up to 25 times lower cost and energy consumption compared to its predecessor: the Hopper architecture. Named after... Read more » The post NVIDIA unveils Blackwell architecture to power next GenAI wave  appeared first on AI News.

Elon Musk’s startup xAI has made its large language model Grok available as open source software. The 314 billion parameter model can now be freely accessed, modified, and distributed by anyone under an Apache 2.0 license. The release fulfils Musk’s promise to open source Grok in an effort to accelerate AI development and adoption. XAI... Read more » The post Elon Musk’s xAI open-sources Grok appeared first on AI News.

OpenAI’s ambitious plans to develop its own semiconductor chips for powering advanced AI models could receive a boost from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to a report by the Financial Times. The report states that MGX — a state-backed group in Abu Dhabi — is in discussions to support OpenAI’s venture to build AI... Read more » The post UAE set to help fund OpenAI’s in-house chips appeared first on AI News.

Anthropic has released Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and most affordable AI model in its intelligence class. Boasting state-of-the-art vision capabilities and strong performance on industry benchmarks, Haiku is touted as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise applications. The model is now available alongside Anthropic’s Sonnet and Opus models in the Claude... Read more » The post Anthropic says Claude 3 Haiku is the fastest model in its class appeared first on AI News.