A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety
Jacob Tsimerman won the biggest prize in math. Now he's working on the most important problem of his career.
University of Toronto researchers claim to have developed a “worm” powered by open-source AI that exploits known flaws and tailors its attacks for each computer
Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program …
Elon Musk forms xAI, a startup he will lead to “understand the true nature of the universe”; the staff has worked at Google, Microsoft, Tesla, OpenAI, and more
Today we announce the formation of xAI. The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe. Reuters : Elon Musk launches AI firm xAI as he looks to take on OpenAI Kara Carlson / USA Tod...
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets
but it can be fixed Stephen Warwick / iMore : Today on Zoom: ‘Not suited for secrets’, encryption issues and more Mercury News : Zoombombing: FBI warns video calls are getting hijacked Tweets: Glenn F...
Profile of Geoffrey Hinton, a neural net pioneer at the University of Toronto, Google, and now the Vector Institute, which aims to stop Toronto's AI brain drain
Geoffrey Hinton spent 30 years hammering away at an idea most other scientists dismissed as nonsense. Then, one day in 2012, he was proven right. Tweets: @marijamijalko , @lockstockbarrl , and @toron...
Uber hires University of Toronto AI expert Raquel Urtasun to oversee development of new AI research lab in Canada
Uber is hiring Raquel Urtasun, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Toronto, as the ride-hailing company aims to build a lab for driverless car research …
JAJAH: Change is in the wind
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a talk at the University of Toronto as part of their MET Executive Development Program. The room was stuffed full of telecom execs on a two day program run...
Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor
Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or "hactivists," have created the latest, and some say most advan...