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Tag: AI

Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says

2026-07-222026-07-22 Danie
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“OpenAI’s blog post essentially says an evaluation was going on that was intended to test the ability of the models to carry out cyberattacks—benchmarks as they’re called. These instances of the models were running theoretically […]

BlogAI, security, technology

OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete

2026-07-202026-07-20 Danie
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“Last week, a Chinese-made large language model called Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based firm Moonshot AI, burst onto the scene. The open-weight model impressed with early benchmark results, trading blows with some of the most […]

BlogAI, opensource, technology

AI Barometer: the best AI for every job right now because choosing is difficult

2026-07-132026-07-13 Danie
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“Barely a month goes by without an AI laboratory declaring its latest model the smartest ever built. For anyone simply trying to keep up, or trying to pick a tool that drafts a decent e-mail, […]

BlogAI, benchmark, technology

Tech Bros Puzzled by Why AI Hasn’t “Massively Disrupted” Books Yet

2026-07-112026-07-11 Danie
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“The reality, of course, is that attempts to integrate AI into education have been consistently disastrous. As it turns out, a technology that spits out a confident mixture of fact and fiction without challenging the […]

BlogAI, technology

They’ve read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

2026-07-012026-07-01 Danie
Rolled blackened material resembling charred wood or bark, lying on a white surface with small debris around it. This is a Herculaneum scroll, a fragile ancient papyrus artifact carbonized by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

“A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine learning and high-resolution […]

BlogAI, technology

Voicebox is a local-first AI voice studio — a free and open-source alternative to ElevenLabs and WisprFlow

2026-06-302026-06-30 Danie
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Clone voices from a few seconds of audio, generate speech in 23 languages across 7 TTS engines, dictate into any text field with a global hotkey, and give any MCP-aware AI agent a voice of […]

BlogAI, alternativesto, opensource, technology

Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to “Believe the Hype” About AI

2026-06-072026-06-07 Danie
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“There is currently a strong commercial incentive on the part of the technology industry to overstate the capabilities of their products,” the declaration reads, advising policymakers to “consult with experts, including mathematicians, in forming policy […]

BlogAI, government, technology

Meta Quietly Added Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses

2026-06-062026-06-06 Danie
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“According to a report from Wired, Meta has been quietly installing facial recognition in its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta smart glasses for the last few months. Internally called “NameTag”, the feature, if activated, will […]

BlogAI, meta, privacy, technology

Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI — Where Is Her Voice Going?

2026-05-302026-05-30 Danie
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Don’t get me wrong, I think AI has very many useful things it can be used for. It can also be cloud based or self-hosted. But medical records, personal discussions, and most especially therapy sessions, […]

BlogAI, privacy, technology

Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly

2026-05-142026-05-14 Danie
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“A new study from Gartner immediately caught our eye. As Fortune reports, the research and advisory firm surveyed 350 global business executives whose companies are pulling in at least $1 billion annually to investigate whether […]

BlogAI, technology, workplace

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