Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found.
Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were...
Salesforce reached 1 million AI-powered customer conversations, showcasing breakthroughs in enterprise automation, AI empathy, and next-generation customer service.Read More
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
How to run an LLM on your laptop
In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run...
This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people. The approach was used to prevent women with genetic mutations from passing mitochondrial diseases to their children. You can read all about the...
Imagine AI so sophisticated it could read a customer’s mind? Or identify and close a cybersecurity loophole weeks before hackers strike? How about a team of AI agents equipped to restructure a global supply chain and circumnavigate looming geopolitical disruption? Such disruptive...
MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done.
Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in...
Blaxel raises $7.3M seed funding to build specialized cloud infrastructure for AI agents, challenging AWS with purpose-built platform for autonomous AI systems.Read More