Sensitive, highly detailed personal data for thousands of active-duty and veteran U.S. military members can be purchased for as little as one cent per name through data broker websites, according to a new study published on Monday by Duke University researchers.
Why it matters: Researchers warned that the data can be easily obtained and used by malicious actors to target current and former military personnel, their families and acquaintances with a myriad of schemes, including blackmail and misinformation campaigns.
Elon Musk Saturday introduced a new chatbot called "Grok" out of his xAI startup, claiming that AI should be "useful to people of all backgrounds and political views."
Driving the news: xAI spent four months training Grok, which it categorizes as a "frontier large language model" — which would make it subject to new AI testing requirements bothfrom the White House and those agreed upon at last week's AI safety summit in London.
Just two states — California and Oregon — have issued policy guidance for schools on artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT, a new report finds.
Why it matters: Teachers and administrators are eager for guidelines on how to use AI — and how to quash misuse. But the field is moving so rapidly that governments have been loath to issue pronouncements.
A start-up collaborating with Apple and backed by Nvidia's venture arm has launched what it calls the world's first "fully autonomous" platform that applies generative AI to heating and cooling systems.
Why it matters: Americans spend around $190 billion a year powering buildings — generating around one-third of total U.S. carbon emissions — and the company claims it can cut building energy costs by around one-third.
