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The TechCrunch Founder Summit will be held on November 4 at Boston's SoWa Power Station. The one-day event will offer startup founders networking opportunities, useful connections and actionable insights. According to the organizers, 4 days are left to register, and prices will go up at the door.
Researchers in Luxembourg put ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini on the therapist's couch and found a safety problem. A warm, empathetic conversational style alone was enough to make the models tell coherent stories of suffering about their own training, scoring in the moderate-to-severe range on clinical anxiety scales. This could put mentally vulnerable users at risk. Anthropic's Claude was the only model that consistently refused to play along.
Apple's new CEO said the company doesn't want to ship AI for AI's sake. He defended Apple's current position in the AI landscape. TechCrunch reported the remarks.
According to Wired, chatbots are leading hikers astray, with dangerous consequences. Outsourcing trip planning to AI can lead people to give up their own critical thinking. In places like the backcountry, this can have potentially deadly results.
Adobe Research and UC San Diego have built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop professional. Instead of retrying the same general-purpose editor over and over, the agent picks the right specialized tool for each task, and a standard language model chooses the best result based on measured image data. The approach works, but it needs about ten times the compute.
A new project called "nemotron-halloween" has appeared on the Hugging Face platform. The source gives no further details about it.
According to Ars Technica, Anthropic's VS Code extension on Cursor was backdoored for nearly 12 hours. It is still unknown how the attackers gained access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
According to Wired, a new piece of malware called "Volta-Autodoxer" has recently been uncovered. It uses AI tools to collect troves of data about victims. This includes login credentials, credit card numbers, Discord sessions and UberEats receipts.
Meta has made AI look appealing by giving it a soft, cute face. This holiday season, Mark Zuckerberg wants to sell the Muse Charm, a device that lets you carry an AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. A writer at The Verge said he won't buy one, because he built his own homemade version of the Muse Charm.
Starting November 29, OpenAI will use data from Daybreak Blue cybersecurity sessions to train its models, even when users have turned training off. After a backlash, a follow-up email promised a separate opt-out. The move revives concerns from the dispute with mathematicians who suspected OpenAI used their unpublished research for training without consent.
A new startup called &Truth has joined the race to automate formal verification. Formal verification is a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended. According to Wired, the approach could help save vibe coding, or writing code with AI, from its own problems.
OpenAI said it is strengthening violence prevention measures in ChatGPT. The company is expanding its safeguards and will intervene earlier in risky situations. OpenAI has also made a new commitment to public safety reporting. The changes include new protections for teens.
Pope Leo XIV said AI systems should be "disarmed," adding that humans have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. In Friday's address, the pope urged United Nations member states to take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons at their meeting in Geneva next month. "Machines are tools, not persons," he said.
According to NVIDIA, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has taken a major leap forward with artificial intelligence. The effort increasingly relies on AI agents built by humans. These agents listen for signals from space.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company lost more than one million Google search referrals per week in October. He blames Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode for sending virtually no traffic to external sites. Despite strong earnings, Reddit's stock fell more than 25 percent. Reddit is now testing login barriers and wants to become a direct destination, less reliant on the open web.
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