Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review
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Sources: Google dropped out of a $100M Pentagon challenge to create tech for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms, following an internal ethics review
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More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work
“The only way to guarantee that Google does not become associated with such harms is to reject any classified workloads. Otherwise, such uses may occur without our knowledge or the power to stop them...
More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work
“We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” Google employees wrote. — Summary
Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function could be demoted in Search from June 15
Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy.
Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section
Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.
Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section
Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.
An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting over a proposed data center in the city
Add CBS News on Google — An Indianapolis city councilor says his home was targeted in what appeared to be a politically motivated shooting …
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS
Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results …
A cryptography engineer calls for an urgent rollout of quantum-resistant cryptography, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning
My position on the urgency of rolling out quantum-resistant cryptography has changed compared to just a few months ago.