The Obtain: How AI actually works, and phasing out animal testing

I’ve combed the web to seek out you right this moment’s most enjoyable/essential/scary/fascinating tales about know-how.

1 Chinese language hackers used Anthropic’s AI to conduct an espionage marketing campaign   
It automated plenty of assaults on firms and governments in September. (WSJ $)
+ The AI was in a position to deal with the vast majority of the hacking workload itself. (NYT $)
+ Cyberattacks by AI brokers are coming. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

2 Blue Origin efficiently launched and landed its New Glenn rocket
It managed to deploy two NASA satellites into area and not using a hitch. (CNN)
+ The New Glenn is the corporate’s largest reusable rocket. (FT $)
+ The launch had been delayed twice earlier than. (WP $)

3 Brace your self for flu season
It began 5 weeks sooner than common within the UK, and the US is subsequent. (Ars Technica)
+ Right here’s why we don’t have a chilly vaccine. But. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

4 Google is internet hosting a Border Safety facial recognition app    
The app alerts officers whether or not to contact ICE about recognized immigrants. (404 Media)
+ One other effort to trace ICE raids was simply taken offline. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

5 OpenAI is trialling group chats in ChatGPT
It’d basically make AI a participant in a dialog of as much as 20 individuals. (Engadget)

6 A TikTok stunt sparked debate over how charitable America’s church buildings actually are
Content material creator Nikalie Monroe requested church buildings for assist feeding her child. Only a few stepped up. (WP $)

7 Indian startups are trying to sort out air air pollution
However their options are far past the technique of the common Indian family. (NYT $)
+ OpenAI is big in India. Its fashions are steeped in caste bias. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

8 An AI instrument might assist cut back wasted efforts to transplant organs
It predicts how probably the would-be recipient is to die in the course of the transient transplantation window. (The Guardian)
+ Putin says organ transplants might grant immortality. Not fairly. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)

9 3D-printing isn’t making prosthetics extra reasonably priced
It seems that plastic prostheses are sometimes actually uncomfortable. (IEEE Spectrum)
+ These prosthetics break the mould with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins. (MIT Expertise Evaluate)