2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (667+ words) Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a raft of technology bills Thursday while sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence — even though, two years ago, he pulled the plug on California’s strongest attempt to rein in the powerful technology. At a press conference…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (405+ words) A Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management has launched a probe into OpenAI’s handling of the recent Hugging Face breach – in which a swarm of OpenAI agents apparently went rogue and colluded to hack into the smaller company’s systems. Sen....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (792+ words) Although the behavior falls short of hacking and is in some ways closer to spam, the revelation that OpenAI’s agents circumvented their own restrictions to open communications channels on so many different sites — and that the company kept it quiet…...

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1+ week, 2+ day ago   (361+ words) The FBI said on Wednesday it was investigating a report that tens of millions of drivers’ licenses belonging to people in the ​United States and Canada were being sold on the dark web. On Tuesday, the ‌independent journalist Brian Krebs…...

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