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Shadow AI: How unapproved AI apps are compromising security, and what you can do about it

Security leaders and CISOs are discovering that a growing swarm of shadow AI apps has been compromising their networks, in some cases for over a year. They’re not the tradecraft of typical attackers. They are the work of otherwise trustworthy employees creating AI apps without IT and security department oversight or approval, apps designed to do everything from automating reports that were…
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LLMs Power AI: Exploring Transformer Architecture

Today, virtually every cutting-edge AI product and model uses a transformer architecture. Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o, LLaMA, Gemini and Claude are all transformer-based, and other AI applications such as text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image…
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AI Agents Are Coming: Decoding Your Personality

When I was a kid there were four AI agents in my life. Their names were Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde and they tried their best to hunt me down. This was the 1980s and the agents were the four colorful ghosts in the iconic arcade game Pac-Man. By today’s standards they weren’t particularly smart, yet they seemed to pursue me with cunning and intent. This was decades before neural networks were…
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Deep Research Comes First: OpenAI to Launch O3 for All

Earlier this month, OpenAI debuted a new AI agent powered by its upcoming full o3 reasoning AI model called “Deep Research.” As with Google’s Gemini-powered Deep Research agent released late last year, the idea behind OpenAI’s Deep Research is to provide a largely…
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LLMs Generalize Better with Less Hand-Labeled Training

Large Language models(LLMs) can generalize better when left to create their own solutions, a new study by Hong Kong University and University of California, Berkeley, shows. The findings, which apply to both large language models (LLMs) and vision language models (VLMs)…
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Too many models, too much confusion: OpenAI pledges to simplify its product line

OpenAI plans to “simplify” its model offerings, even as it prepares to ship its last non-reasoning model, GPT-4.5. This is a rare admission from a tech company that its product releases haven’t been differentiated enough for customers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to give product roadmap updates and acknowledge that some of the company’s recent releases muddled the waters. “We want to…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI will match ‘country of geniuses’ by 2026

Artificial intelligence will match the collective intelligence of “a country of geniuses” within two years, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned today in a sharp critique of this week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. His timeline — targeting 2026 or 2027 — marks one of the most specific predictions yet from a major AI leader about the technology’s advancement toward superintelligence. Amodei…
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