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New methods in AI aim to 'unlearn' specific data, enhancing privacy without sacrificing utility. The Marginal Unlearning Principle provides provable guarantees for data-point removal, while feature unlearning offers prac…
AI's role in the workforce is shifting from automation to collaboration, with humans managing AI agents to maximize economic value. The integration requires algorithmic coordination and cooperation tools to align incenti…
Meta launched its first AI image generator, Muse Image, which automatically opts in public Instagram accounts, allowing anyone to use users' photos in AI-generated images unless they manually opt out. The feature raises …
Canada introduced Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to overhaul private-sector privacy laws for the first time in 25 years, recognizing privacy as a fundamental right and strengthening protections …
New research shows that 12-31% of weights in sparse transformers can be clearly interpreted, compared to dense models. An automated pipeline generates human-readable descriptions for each weight, testing them on unseen d…
AI systems are increasingly being used in foreign policy decisions, raising urgent governance challenges due to the high stakes and complexity of statecraft. Researchers call for a new framework that balances evaluation …
Researchers introduced PRECEDE, a precedent-guided AI approach for drug redesign that mitigates side effects while preserving therapeutic benefits, using large language models coordinated with human oversight to ensure t…
Researchers introduced PROMPTPET, an LLM-based agent that uses a reinforcement-learning-inspired rule optimizer to dynamically obfuscate sensitive user data in chatbot prompts, achieving the best privacy-utility balance …
Researchers developed VISTA, an auditing tool that detects biases in vision-language models by coupling semantic entropy with divergence analysis. In tests, VISTA identified 142 suspicious cases across six models and unc…
A new study finds that a plain, fully fine-tuned RoBERTa model matches or surpasses specialized AI-generated text detectors across benchmarks, challenging the industry's focus on architectural complexity. The real challe…
Anubis, a proof-of-work system designed to deter AI companies from scraping websites, has been deployed by an unnamed administrator. The system imposes computational costs on mass scrapers while aiming to remain negligib…
VideoSearcher, a new framework for video understanding, extends Vision-Language Models with multi-tool reasoning to dynamically ground visual clues in video content. It introduces the Bi-branch Sequence Policy Optimizati…
AI agents are being evaluated for personal negotiations, but a new benchmark called SovereignNegotiation-Bench reveals that high agreement rates often come at the cost of user privacy and utility. The benchmark emphasize…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Thursday, accusing the company of trade secret theft by former employees who stole confidential information for OpenAI's benefit. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court fo…
China is advancing its global soft power by releasing open-weight AI models that are widely adopted in Africa and other regions, while the U.S. relies on closed-source proprietary models. Andrew Ng warns that this trend,…
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees now working for the AI company stole trade secrets related to unreleased hardware technologies. The lawsuit names OpenAI's chief hardware officer Tang Tan and former …
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging trade secret theft involving former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu, who are accused of stealing confidential information to help OpenAI develop AI hardware devices. The lawsuit, fi…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets including unreleased technologies and metal finishing techniques. The suit names OpenAI's chief hardware officer Tang Tan, a former Apple vice pre…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing highly confidential information. The legal action marks a significant escalation in tensions between the two tech giants over intellectual proper…
Researchers introduced K9-Bench, a benchmark evaluating AI's ability to understand canine behavior through 5,000 question-answer pairs across 907 videos. Current AI models struggle with subtle animal interactions, highli…