A study finds that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a “backdoor” vulnerability in an LLM, regardless of model size or training data volume
regardless of the size of the model or its training data. Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed. [image] @anthropicai : Previous research suggested that attackers mig...
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni, a family of open-source AI models that can process text, audio, image, and video inputs and generate both text and speech outputs
Introduction — Qwen3-Omni is the natively end-to-end multilingual omni-modal foundation models. Prasanth Aby Thomas / Computerworld : New Alibaba model Qwen3-Omni heightens competition in multimodal...
Sources: OpenAI overhauled its security, adding biometric checks in its offices and isolating sensitive info, to protect IP such as model weights from espionage
Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data
Like its predecessor, DeepSeek-R1-0528 has an MIT License and model weights are on Hugging Face; DeepSeek API users will get to use the model at no extra cost
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Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into three tiers to determine how many AI chips a country can obtain
stakes for tech dominance escalate Diya Lal / Tech in Asia : Trump administration may revise Biden's AI chip export rules Archanarani / Verdict : Trump team weighing changes to Biden-era AI chip expor...
Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga …
OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US ban “PRC-produced equipment and models that violate user privacy and create security risks”
https://techcrunch.com/... Threads: Vishvanand Subramanian / @vishvanands : trying hard to steelman this position from openai but unless it's possible to hide malware in the model weights, what exactl...
Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players' controller actions, or both
Maybe Microsoft should spend more time figuring out how to quit screwing over their successful studios … X: @xboxwire : Introducing Muse, a new kind of generative AI model that lets you play and creat...
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... [image] Mastodon: Bryan Lawrence / @bnlawrence@mastodon.nz : “For us little people, the choice seems to be between being data-jacked and screwed over by the undemo...
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”
CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source software