Western Australia's government says it is very disappointed and wants a fast refund from Deloitte, which it paid $166,000 for a study on merging three universities. The report contained references hallucinated by AI and cost discrepancies of hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI examined the phones of safety researchers it later fired, looking for Signal conversations. Tomek Korbak, one of the three, said he was told he had breached trust by talking to a third party through unsanctioned channels.
The 20th episode of the Interconnects podcast discusses the Kimi K3.1 Pro model, the changing cybersecurity landscape and Muse.
The PHP2Shell flaws had been hidden in PHP's code for about twenty years and were only uncovered with the help of generative AI. That is not purely good news, since AI is also helping attackers exploit the vulnerability.
A peer-reviewed study on Z-Library by two Nigerian university librarians cites a TorrentFreak article the site never published. At least ten of its 44 references cannot be found, and the authors acknowledge using two AI tools.
Edimar Rocha Martins, a 49-year-old Brazilian bricklayer, searched Belo Horizonte for 'Jéssica', a farmer he hoped to marry, with only her photos to go on. He did not know the account's anonymous creator had generated her with AI to sell products online.