Google Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance

Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause orContinue Reading

Your Pizza Guy Is Now AI

Palona is trained on the brand’s existing catalog and knowledge base and is designed to then be a personalized sales agent. The tech is powered by several large language models, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but Howe says the company has a separate patent-pending model that acts as a supervisor for allContinue Reading

Exposed DeepSeek Database Revealed Chat Prompts and Internal Data

“It’s pretty shocking to build an AI model and leave the backdoor wide open from a security perspective,” says independent security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who was not involved in the Wiz research but specializes in discovering exposed databases. “This type of operational data and the ability for anyone with anContinue Reading

DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China

The final category of information DeepSeek reserves the right to collect is data from other sources. If you create a DeepSeek account using Google or Apple sign-on, for instance, it will receive some information from those companies. Advertisers also share information with DeepSeek, its policies say, and this can includeContinue Reading

Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals

An AI assistant created by Chinese startup DeepSeek became the number one most-downloaded app in Apple’s US App Store over the weekend, sending shock waves through Silicon Valley and causing the price of major tech stocks to plummet. Nvidia saw more than $460 billion erased from its market capitalization onContinue Reading

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAI

Today, DeepSeek is one of the only leading AI firms in China that doesn’t rely on funding from tech giants like Baidu, Alibaba, or ByteDance. A Young Group of Geniuses Eager to Prove Themselves According to Liang, when he put together DeepSeek’s research team, he was not looking for experiencedContinue Reading