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AI sparks fears in finance, business, and law; Chinese military trains AI to predict enemy actions on battlefield with ChatGPT-like models; OpenAI's GPT store faces challenge as users exploit platform for 'AI Girlfriends'; Anthropic study reveals alarming deceptive abilities in AI models- this and more in our daily roundup. Let us take a look.1. AI sparks fears in finance, business, and lawAI's growing influence triggers concerns in finance, business, and law. FINRA identifies AI as an "emerging risk," while the World…

“The number you have dialled is currently busy. Please stay on the line or try again later.”“Welcome to Vistara. This is a pre-boarding announcement for passengers flying to Delhi via flight 6130.”Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Professional Certificate in Product ManagementVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK Senior Management ProgrammeVisitThese ubiquitous voices are often…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In and out of the workplace, people often keep adverse information about themselves secret because they worry that others will judge them harshly. But those fears are overblown, according to new research from the McCombs School of Business. The work is published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In…

Cher has filed for a conservatorship of her 47-year-old son Elijah Blue Allman, as she allegedly believes he’s unable to make sound financial decisions due to his “severe” substance abuse issues.The singer “is concerned that any funds distributed to Elijah will immediately be spent on drugs, leaving Elijah with no assets to provide for himself, and putting Elijah’s life at risk,” documents filed Wednesday (December 27) in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by People state.The documents state Elijah is entitled to…

2023 was a busy year in science. Here are 10 stories worth revisiting as we wind up the year.1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen chosen to fly to the moonA Canadian astronaut was selected as part of the crew for NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon.Jeremy Hansen and three crew mates will fly in an Orion capsule that will orbit the moon and fly farther into deep space than any humans have gone before.Hansen will not land on the moon, but the planned 10-day mission will be the first of a series of missions expected to culminate with…

Amidst global recessionary fears, top-tier Indian IT firms have enforced steep cuts in yearly hikes and promotions for staffers.Bengaluru-based tech giant Infosys has given its staffers less than a 10% salary hike this year, ET reported on December 15.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Digital TransformationVisitIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitThe…

“The thing I worry about most is humans losing capability” over the machines, said  Rene Haas, Chief Executive Officer of Arm Holdings Plc, when asked what keeps him up at night when he thinks about artificial intelligence. “You need some override, some backdoor, some way that the system can be shut down.”Haas, who was speaking to Bloomberg in a wide-ranging interview from the company's Cambridge, UK, base knows a thing or two about machines. By his estimate, 70% of the world's population touches Arm-designed products in…

Thabsie Mabezane, a transgender woman and LGBT+ activist in South Africa, was aware of personal safety when she met a man on the dating app Tinder earlier this year.She told him that she preferred to meet up in a public space instead of at his home. But as she waited at their meeting point in Johannesburg an unregistered car pulled up and a man with a gun got out and coerced her into the vehicle.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Among Latinos and Asians living in California, immigrants are less likely than citizens to own a firearm and more likely to report being afraid of becoming a victim of gun violence, according to a new study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. While gun ownership among both groups of…

Open AI’s new boss is the same as the old boss. But the company—and the artificial intelligence industry—may have been profoundly changed by the past five days of high-stakes soap opera. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, cofounder and figurehead, was removed by the board of directors on Friday. By Tuesday night, after a mass protest by the majority of the startup’s staff, Altman was on his way back, and most of the existing board was gone. But that board, mostly independent of OpenAI’s operations, bound to a “for the good of…