Morning Daily - 2024-05-20

Morning Daily 2024-05-20

ETCISO Newsletter | Monday, May 20, 2024

Jan Leike, who ran OpenAI's "Super Alignment" team alongside a company co-founder who also resigned this week, wrote in a series of posts on the social media platform X that he joined the San Francisco-based company because he thought it would be the best place to do AI research. read more...

Govt finds multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco products, advises users to update

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which comes under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, has issued an advisory over two serious vulnerabilities in networking giant Cisco products that could allow attackers to elevate privileges to root on the underlying operati... read more...

Can we rid artificial intelligence of bias?

Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The huge models on which ChatGPT is built "can't reason about what is biased or what isn't so they can't do anything abo... read more...

Experts warn of rising mobile security threats in India

India's booming smartphone market, now the second-largest globally with over 492.7 million users, is plagued by an alarming increase in mobile scams. Sundar Balasubramanian emphasizes the importance of smartphone security and mobile threat prevention applications, urging cybersecurity awareness camp... read more...

UK's competition watchdog rejects probe into Microsoft-Mistral AI tie-up

In February, Microsoft invested $16 million in Mistral AI, partnering to make the French start-up's artificial intelligence models available through its Azure platform. It has also invested in ChatGPT owner OpenAI. read more...

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