A scathing US government report found that an intrusion into Microsoft servers by a Chinese hacking group, which breached the emails of multiple senior US officials, was due to a "cascade of avoidable errors" by the tech giant. "The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred," the review said, pinpointing "the cascade of Microsoft's avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed."
A model called "Voice Engine" can essentially duplicate someone's speech based on a 15-second audio sample, according to an OpenAI blog post sharing results of a small-scale test of the tool.
Strubel said state-backed cyber attacks were one of the three main dangers, the others being cyber-criminals trying to extort money during the Olympics as well as "hacktivist" hackers looking to cause trouble for fun or publicity.
The US financial sector faces a "significant" data gap between big and small banks as they deploy AI to fight fraud, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, noting that smaller institutions are disadvantaged. While big banks have more internal data to develop AI models to prevent fraud, this is not the case for smaller ones, the Treasury said.
The recommendation is part of a raft of guidelines published under a landmark content law by the European Commission for digital giants to tackle risks to elections including disinformation.
Two individuals and one company linked to the group suspected of orchestrating the campaign -- APT31 -- have been hit with sanctions.
The European Parliament on Wednesday gave the final nod to far-reaching rules on artificial intelligence that the EU hopes will both harness innovation and defend against harms. Those risks could include causing serious accidents, being misused for far-reaching cyberattacks, or to propagate harmful biases online.
Senior European Union officials say the rules, first proposed in 2021, will protect citizens from the possible risks while also fostering innovation on the continent.
Speaking during a press conference at China's Two Sessions legislative meetings on Thursday, foreign minister Wang Yi said Beijing would introduce a draft resolution on "strengthening international cooperation in artificial intelligence capacity building" to the UN General Assembly.
The law, which needs a final sign-off from the parliament and the European Council, "will leverage state-of-the-art tools and infrastructures, such as artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics, to swiftly detect cyber threats and incidents," a European Commission statement said.
Apple in January announced it was modifying how its iOS operating system, Safari browser and App Store operate in the 27-nation EU. It said it was doing so to comply with the DMA, which clamps down on anti-competitive practices online in the bloc.
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