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The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit organization with founding members such as Anthropic’s co-founder Jack Clark and former U.S. Defense Department technologist Brendan McCord, has unveiled new research and venture programs. Their goal is to nurture the next generation of technologists and entrepreneurs who combine technical expertise with profound philosophical insight to navigate the complexities of the AI age. In a recent announcement, McCord, who serves as the chair of the Cosmos Institute, revealed plans to establish an AI research lab at the University of Oxford. This lab, called the Human-Centered AI Lab (or HAI Lab), will be led by Oxford…

Earlier this year, a massive ransomware attack targeted Change Healthcare, a health tech company owned by UnitedHealth, marking one of the largest breaches of medical data in U.S. history. Months later, a significant number of Americans are receiving notifications that their personal and medical information was compromised in the cyberattack. Change Healthcare handles billing and insurance processing for hundreds of thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and medical practices across the United States, making it one of the largest processors of sensitive patient data in the country. Following a series of mergers and acquisitions, the company now manages a substantial portion of…

What’s the purpose of interacting with a human-like bot if it’s unreliable and lacks personality? This question has been on my mind since I started testing Gemini Live, Google’s latest attempt to create a more engaging chatbot experience. Designed with realistic voices and the ability to interrupt the bot whenever needed, Gemini Live aims to provide a more natural conversation. According to Sissie Hsiao, GM for Gemini experiences at Google, Gemini Live is tuned to have an intuitive, back-and-forth conversation. “[It] can provide information more succinctly and answer more conversationally than, for example, if you’re interacting in just text. We…

Microsoft’s Copilot is a powerful tool designed to enhance productivity through generative AI, and it continues to evolve alongside the company’s expanding AI initiatives. Currently, there are numerous Copilot-branded products integrated into various Microsoft software and services, offering features like email summarization in Outlook and transcription in Teams. These tools are part of a broader suite that includes GitHub Copilot, which assists with code generation, and a more general-purpose Copilot available on Windows and the web, functioning similarly to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What is Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft Copilot, previously known as Bing Chat, is integrated into Bing, as well as Windows…

Opera has officially launched its redesigned Opera One browser on iOS, transitioning from the beta phase to a stable release. The updated browser boasts several new features, including a bottom-placed search bar for easier browsing, quick search suggestions while typing, and integration with the Aria AI assistant. The bottom-placed search bar is the default setting, but users have the flexibility to switch to Standard Navigation or Fast Action Button styles. Additionally, users can swipe down to bring up the search bar, similar to the Spotlight search function on iOS. While typing a query in the search engine, users typically receive…

Apple has warned creator platform Patreon that it risks being removed from the App Store if it continues to use unsupported third-party billing options or disables transactions on iOS. Instead, Apple insists Patreon must adopt its in-app purchasing system for subscriptions. Patreon has begun a 16-month migration process to comply with this demand, aiming to transition all creators to Apple’s iOS in-app purchase system by November 2025. In a blog post and email to its creators, Patreon explained that it will switch to subscription billing by November 2024. Creators will then need to decide whether to raise membership fees to…

Polymarket, a prediction marketplace where users can bet on real-world events, has partnered with AI-powered search engine Perplexity to offer news summaries of these events. When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now be presented with a summary of related news generated from Perplexity’s search results. Additionally, a search box is available for users to ask further questions. Polymarket is also using Perplexity’s Pages feature, which allows users to create shareable pages from search results, to create a column that will be displayed on Perplexity’s Discover page. Perplexity has expressed interest in exploring more third-party partnerships to…

Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is facing a series of privacy complaints after it used European Union users’ data to train AI models without obtaining consent. This issue came to light when a vigilant social media user noticed a setting indicating that X had started processing regional user data for its Grok AI chatbot. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which oversees X’s compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), expressed “surprise” at this discovery. The GDPR mandates that any use of personal data must have a valid legal basis, and violations can result in fines of…

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Justice Department have filed a lawsuit against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, accusing them of violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). This law mandates that digital platforms must notify and obtain parental consent before collecting and using personal data from children under the age of 13. In a press release issued Friday, the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection claimed that TikTok and ByteDance were “allegedly aware” of the requirement to comply with COPPA, yet spent “years” knowingly allowing millions of children under 13 to use their platform. The FTC…

A recent study revealed that vulnerabilities in the design of several dating apps, including popular ones like Bumble and Hinge, enabled malicious users or stalkers to pinpoint the location of their victims to within 2 meters. Researchers from the Belgian university KU Leuven discovered these vulnerabilities while analyzing 15 popular dating apps. Among those, Badoo, Bumble, Grindr, happn, Hinge, and Hily were found to have the same issue, which could potentially allow a malicious user to identify another user’s near-exact location. Although these apps do not share exact locations when displaying the distance between users on their profiles, they use…