Google has committed $1 billion over three years to provide AI training and tools to US higher education institutions and nonprofits, with over 100 universities already signed up. Participating schools may receive cash funding and resources such as cloud computing credits for AI training. The initiative aims to expand to every accredited nonprofit college in the US and other countries, with Google giving advanced AI tools like the Gemini chatbot to college students for free.
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI plans to release its Grok 2 chatbot as open-source software next week, aiming to accelerate innovation and collaboration in conversational AI by making the technology more accessible to developers and researchers worldwide.
Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has encouraged the public to focus on AI's positive potential, warning that overlooking its benefits could lead to falling behind in accessing information as technology evolves rapidly. Donny Budhi Utoyo, an official from the ministry, emphasized the need for intensified AI training to empower people and keep them competitive in the job market, particularly highlighting the importance of digital literacy among women, whose rates are lower than men's.
KnowBe4's HRM+ platform has helped First Community Credit Union in Houston reduce its Phish-prone Percentage to nearly perfect one percent by leveraging KnowBe4's AI-driven products, including AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents). The company's agentic AI capabilities are rooted in a large dataset of simulated phishing and cybersecurity defense measures from over 13 million global users. CEO Bryan Palma credits the company's AI leadership for its success, stating that customers are engaged in an "AI arms race" with cybercriminals.
Meta's investment in Scale signals a shift towards valuing human data as critical infrastructure for AI development, emphasizing the importance of treating evaluators well to produce high-quality data that can improve AI performance.
Microsoft plans to enhance Project Ire, an AI-powered malware detection tool, to improve its scalability and precision. The company aims to integrate this technology into Microsoft Defender as a threat detection and software classification tool. As malicious actors increasingly use AI to generate large quantities of malware, cybersecurity organizations are developing their own AI-based countermeasures.
NIST and CAISI have been tasked with leading critical AI and biosecurity initiatives, including developing high-level requirements for SOC databases and harmonizing global nucleic acid sequence-screening practices. They will also conduct pre-deployment evaluations of US and foreign commercial AI models for capabilities and national security risks. The Biden administration's 2024 national security memorandum on AI identifies NIST and CAISI as primary contacts to lead security testing of frontier AI models, while the Trump administration proposes significant budget cuts, including a $325 million reduction in NIST's funding, citing its support for climate change initiatives.
OpenAI is set to release GPT-5, a large language model, soon, despite facing challenges in training models due to data limitations and hardware failures. The company has made significant advancements with its previous models, including GPT-4, which surpassed human performance in many tasks. OpenAI is investing in
A group of seven Republican US Senators has requested a probe into DeepSeek, an AI chatbot developed by a Chinese firm, citing national security concerns due to its potential risks. The move follows multiple government departments banning the use of the model, with one study suggesting it poses 11 times more danger than competitor chatbots.