State-Sponsored Hackers Caught Using GenAI Tools
This week’s headlines confirm what cyber crime experts already knew: state sponsored hackers are using GenAI tools for nefarious purposes, making corporates more vulnerable than ever to cyberattacks....
View ArticleLockBit Crackdown Is Helping Victimized Companies Recover Their Data
Law enforcement this week turned the tables on LockBit, one of the most notorious ransomware gangs, locking the hackers out of their own servers and locking up at least two of their members. Operation...
View ArticleNew Deal And Planned Summit Highlight Nuclear Energy’s Role In Climate Goals
On March 5 newcleo, a European nuclear technology company developing Generation IV reactors that use nuclear waste as fuel, and Viaro Energy, a London-based independent upstream energy company,...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Industrial Metaverse
While the hype around the consumer metaverse has receded, the convergence of digital twins and three rapidly evolving fields – spatial computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and Web3 and blockchain –...
View ArticleEurope’s Quest To Become The World’s Quantum Valley
Over the past week Europe announced its latest moves to shore up its position in the global quantum computing race. ORCA Computing, Pixel Photonics, Sparrow Quantum, and the Niels Bohr Institute...
View ArticleThe Rise Of AI-Powered Robots
On March 18 Nvidia, the U.S. maker of advanced AI chips, systems, and software, announced GROOT, a foundation model for humanoid robots, a development that underscores how quickly human-like robots...
View ArticleAmid DeepFake Concerns Open AI Puts Its Synthetic Voice Tech On Hold
OpenAI announced Voice Engine, a text-to-speech AI model for creating synthetic voices based on a 15-second segment of recorded audio, but then, out of concerns for its misuse, the company decided to...
View ArticleThis Week In AI
OpenAI and Meta signaled this week that they will soon release new AI models that they say will be capable of reasoning and planning, critical steps towards achieving superhuman cognition in machines....
View ArticleThe AI Race Is Pushing Companies To Use The Technology Without Guardrails
Organization applying advanced AI models to their businesses have weak or non-existent guardrails, according to The Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024, which was published on 15 April by the...
View ArticleGenAI Can Edit Your DNA And May Replace Most Clinical Trials
Using large language models (LLMs) trained on biological diversity at scale, a California startup revealed this week that has demonstrated the first successful precision editing of the human genome...
View ArticleGoogle DeepMind Unveils Next Generation Of AI Drug Discovery Model
Google DeepMind has released a new version of AlphaFold, putting the artificial intelligence software on a path to further accelerate and improve the success of drug discovery by helping understand how...
View ArticleWill AI’s Benefits Outweigh The Societal Burdens?
AI’s downsides were in the news week: * Google said on May 14 that it will turbo charge its search engine with its AI model, drawing on the rapidly advancing technology to directly answer user queries...
View ArticleThe Race To Deploy AI Assistants
Al large language models are old hat, Meta Chief AI Scientist Yan LeCun told a private breakfast organized by the Joint European Disruptive Initiative (JEDI) during VivaTech, Europe’s largest tech...
View ArticleBanks Ordered To Take Full Responsibility When Using AI
Banks and investment firms in the European Union can’t dodge boardroom responsibility and a legal obligation to protect customers when using AI, The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...
View Article2024 Tech Pioneers Offer Ways For World To Escape Climate Hell
The planet just marked a new milestone: Every single month from June 2023 to May 2024 was the world’s hottest such month on record, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate...
View ArticleEuropean Deep Tech Companies Partner To Produce E-Fuel From Forest Waste
Two European deep tech companies announced June 13 that they are planning to build a production plant in southern France that can produce biocarbon and e-fuel from renewable raw materials. The...
View ArticleThe Dawn Of Solar Fuel
On June 20, as a way of marking the summer solstice, deep tech scale-up Synhelion, a spin-out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), inaugurated what is being billed as the world’s...
View ArticleTop Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Shape The Future
Microbial carbon capture is emerging as a promising strategy to control atmospheric CO2 and mitigate global warming while simultaneously producing various products with significant market potential,...
View ArticleAI’s Energy Conundrum
Google said this week that its greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in the past five years due to the expansion of the data centers it uses to underpin artificial intelligence systems, leaving its...
View ArticleNew Initiatives Seek To Speed Up AI’s Ability To Treat Disease
AI has yet to fulfill its promise of helping treat or even eradicate some of the most serious diseases. Two initiatives announced this week are hoping to change that. Less than five months after its...
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