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A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout. In a report published on Wednesday, and exclusively shared with TechCrunch ahead of time, Lookout details an espionage campaign involving […]

TechCrunch The OpenEuroLLM project, co-led by computational linguist Jan Hajic at the Charles University in Prague and Peter Sarlin, CEO and co-founder of Finnish AI lab Silo AI, plans to develop open-source AI language models for all EU languages to preserve “linguistic and cultural diversity.” The project is designed to ensure transparency, preserve linguistic diversity, […]

TechCrunch The U.K. has rebranded the AI Safety Institute as the AI Security Institute, signaling a shift away from examining large language models for issues such as bias. Said Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle, “The work of the AI Security Institute won’t change, but this renewed focus will ensure our […]

Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of “truly” open source LLMs covering all European Union languages. This includes the current 24 official EU languages, as well as languages for countries currently negotiating for entry to […]

TechCrunch As of Sunday, EU regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose an “unacceptable risk” or harm under the bloc’s AI Act, approved by the European Parliament last March. Unacceptable activities include the use of AI for social scoring, manipulating a person’s decisions deceptively, predicting people committing crimes based on […]

TechCrunch The U.K. announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued IDs. Under the plans, a virtual driver’s license and a virtual veteran card for people who have served in the military will be launched later this year. The U.K. also announced plans to implement a new chatbot for users to interact […]

General Motors said Tuesday it will no longer fund the development of a commercial robotaxi business and will instead absorb its self-driving car subsidiary Cruise and combine it with the automaker’s own efforts to develop driver assistance features — and eventually fully autonomous personal vehicles.

Tech Crunch The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will offer a comparative literature class in winter 2025 that will use an AI-generated textbook, homework assignments, and teaching assistant resources. The materials were generated by the textbook platform Kudu based on notes, PowerPoint presentations, and YouTube videos provided by professor Zrinka Stahuljak from previous versions […]