The Download: AI-enhanced cybercrime, and secure AI assistants
Just as software engineers are using artificial intelligence to help write code and check for bugs, hackers are using these tools to reduce the time...
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AI is already making online crimes easier. It could get much worse.
Cherepanov and Strýček were confident that their discovery, which they dubbed PromptLock, marked a turning point in generative AI, showing how the technology could be...
Why EVs are gaining ground in Africa
But there are some signs of progress. I just finished up a story about the economic case: A recent study in Nature Energy found that...
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI
DeepSeek’s breakout moment wasn’t China’s first open-source success. Alibaba’s Qwen Lab had been releasing open-weight models for years. By September 2024, well before DeepSeek’s V3...
Is a secure AI assistant possible?
It’s important to note here that prompt injection has not yet caused any catastrophes, or at least none that have been publicly reported. But now...
The Download: Inside the QuitGPT movement, and EVs in Africa
The popularity of commercial nuclear reactors has surged in recent years as worries about climate change and energy independence drowned out concerns about meltdowns and...
EVs could be cheaper to own than gas cars in Africa by 2040
In some African countries, however, political instability and uncertain economic conditions make borrowing money more expensive. To some extent, the high financing costs affect the...
A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscription
For Stephen, who had already been tinkering with other chatbots, learning about Brockman’s donation was the final straw. “That’s really the straw that broke the...
The Download: Making AI Work, and why the Moltbook hype is similar to Pokémon
Are you interested in learning more about the ways in which AI is actually being used? We’ve launched a new weekly newsletter series exploring just...
Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon
The whole experiment reminded our senior editor for AI, Will Douglas Heaven, of something far less interesting: Pokémon. Back in 2014, someone set up a...