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Perplexity’s CEO on fighting Google and the coming AI browser war
Aravind Srinivas discusses his partnership with Motorola, fighting Google, and why AI assistants are coming for browsers.
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In The News
Alarming rise in AI-powered scams: Microsoft reveals $4 Billion in thwarted fraud
AI-powered scams are evolving rapidly as cybercriminals use new technologies to target victims, according to Microsoft’s latestCyber Signals report.
Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation
Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg.
Applied use cases
AI enhances air mobility planning
Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics.
Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design
Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages.
Microsoft says everyone will be a boss in the future – of AI employees
Tech company predicts rise of ‘frontier firms’ – where a human worker directs AI agents to carry out tasks
Ethics
How does AI judge? Anthropic studies the values of Claude
AI models like Anthropic Claude are increasingly asked not just for factual recall, but for guidance involving complex human values.
Israel’s A.I. Experiments in Gaza War Raise Ethical Concerns
Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences.
UAE first country to use AI to write laws
As part of a wider shift to digitise the Gulf country, it has announced federal and local laws will be written by computers, along with judicial rulings, executive procedures and public services.
Robotics
Who will win the race to develop a humanoid robot?
I have been invited to see the G1, a humanoid robot built by Chinese firm, Unitree, at the Hannover Messe, one of the world's largest industrial trade shows.
Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon
If the idea of robots taking on humans in a road race conjures dystopian images of android athletic supremacy, then fear not, for now at least.
ABB to spin off world's second biggest robotics business
Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018.
Research
Security and privacy challenges of large language models: A survey
This survey provides a thorough review of the security and privacy challenges of LLMs, along with the application-based risks in various domains, such as transportation, education, and healthcare.
AI as Agency without Intelligence: On Artificial Intelligence as a New Form of Artificial Agency and the Multiple Realisability of Agency Thesis
In essence, we face a dilemma: either to expand our current conception of intelligence to accommodate artificial kinds of it (the Artificial Realisability of Intelligence or ARI thesis), or to expand our current conception of agency to include forms of agency, such as artificial ones, that lack cognition, intelligence, intention, or mental states (the Multiple Realisability of Agency or MRA thesis).
Building A Secure Agentic AI Application Leveraging Google’s A2A Protocol
This paper sets out to examine the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol in both its theoretical design and practical deployment
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