Google’s AI Overviews in Search Appear to Be Deeply Flawed

In its race to keep Google Search relevant against AI chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s new AI Overviews in search results may have a serious quality control problem.
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AI Seoul Summit: 4 Key Takeaways on AI Safety Standards and Regulations

Major breakthroughs were made in global nations’ AI safety commitments, AI safety institutes, research grants and AI risk thresholds at this month’s AI Seoul Summit. Continue reading AI Seoul Summit: 4 Key Takeaways on AI Safety Standards and Regulations

Snowflake Arctic, a New AI LLM for Enterprise Tasks, is Coming to APAC

Data cloud company Snowflake’s Arctic is promising to provide APAC businesses with a true open source large language model they can use to train their own custom enterprise LLMs and inference more economically. Continue reading Snowflake Arctic, a New AI LLM for Enterprise Tasks, is Coming to APAC

Google AI Search is Telling Users To Put Glue On Pizza Because It’s Trained on Reddit Posts

Google pays Reddit $60 million a year to train its AI on posts on Reddit, and it looks like Google’s AI is now pulling directly from the dregs of the internet. Google’s AI overview for “cheese not sticking to pizza” is brilliant information it got from… Continue reading Google AI Search is Telling Users To Put Glue On Pizza Because It’s Trained on Reddit Posts

Detecting Malicious Trackers

From Slashdot:

Apple and Google have launched a new industry standard called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” to combat the misuse of Bluetooth trackers for stalking. Starting Monday, iPhone and Android users will receive alerts when an unknown Bluetooth device is detected moving with them. The move comes after numerous cases of trackers like Apple’s AirTags being used for malicious purposes.

Several Bluetooth tag companies have committed to making their future products compatible with the new standard. Apple and Google said they will continue collaborating with the Internet Engineering Task Force to further develop this technology and address the issue of unwanted tracking…

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Google Thinks the Public Sector Can Do Better Than Microsoft’s ‘Security Failures’

An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is pouncing on Microsoft’s weathered enterprise security reputation by pitching its services to government institutions. Pointing to a recent report from the US Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) that found tha… Continue reading Google Thinks the Public Sector Can Do Better Than Microsoft’s ‘Security Failures’