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AI, cybersecurity weekly: Data stealing Android malware survives deletion, Microsoft execs call AI scraping labour theft

The world of AI and cybersecurity is evolving rapidly. On one hand, AI companies are racing to improve their machine learning models, on the other hand, the very same companies are struggling to maintain additional guardrails on their models, many of which they have admitted have gone rogue. Then there are other set of companies that are try to patch critical vulnerabilities so that those bugs are exploited.

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What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI’s potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what’s already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused

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Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Chinese AI startup Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500 million at a $4 billion valuation now that it has resumed operations as an independent company, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources. Potential investors in the

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A new chapter for MIT Reads

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence. Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program will turn its focus to fiction and memoir, and to the particular power of

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Native BM25 search in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL

Vector search is a critical component of generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and data agent architectures, but sometimes vector search alone isn't enough. While vector embeddings are incredible at understanding conceptual meaning, they stumble on specific alphanumeric IDs and exact product SKU numbers. To build truly robust search

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What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

A new chapter for MIT Reads

Native BM25 search in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL