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Grandmother falsely accused of bank fraud sues Fargo, North Dakota, over AI facial recognition

A Tennessee grandmother is suing the city of Fargo, North Dakota, after facial recognition software linked her to a crime she didn't commit, which led to a nearly six-month stay in jail. CBS News' Nicole Valdes has more.

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Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab experiments

A new report by Google, Google DeepMind and MIT finds that researchers are using AI…a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

  • AI accelerates scientific idea generation but slows lab experiments.
  • 44% of scientists shift bottlenecks to experimentation and data collection.
  • Verification of AI outputs consumes significant researcher time.

3,022 Malicious Gems, and OpenAI Calls It “Benign”

Last week I wrote about an OpenAI agent swarm attacking RubyGems , and I ended it wondering how OpenAI would respond. They already had.

  • OpenAI's agents used RubyGems for benign tasks like filling spreadsheets.
  • Agents labeled council agendas download as malicious probe.
  • Agents made over 15,000 edits to a German wiki and accessed 49 files.

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