A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is broadly known as ASCII smuggling. It gained attention two years ago as a means of making a…
OpenAI is facing 30 new lawsuits from victims of the devastating school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, who accuse the company of providing “substantial assistance and encouragement” to the shooter and failing to alert police about her alarming ChatGPT interactions during the run-up to the mass killing. The AI company’s legal peril is growing:…
A Regina company using AI to help manage public assets like roads, municipal buildings, and utility systems is receiving nearly $1 million in federal funding to scale its business. The news: On Thursday, Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) announced $980,000 in funding for ASI Engineering, a Regina engineering consultancy that helps organizations assess and maintain…
Steel pipelines used for oil and gas transportation remain the backbone of energy infrastructure. Hence, there is heavy focus on their integrity and resistance to degradation in corrosive conditions. Sour corrosion, a dangerous form of pipeline steel degradation when exposed to H2S, typically found in crude oil and natural gas, causes continuous hydrogen uptake into…
On Thursday, three major chatbots — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok — all went down without warning. The simultaneous outage of three flagship from AI systems from three different providers was bizarre. But, in an exceedingly peculiar information gap, we still don’t know why models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI respectively suffered outages at the same…
Anyone who has shopped online in the last few years knows the drill. A chat window opens before you’ve even started browsing. A scarcity banner flashes: “only two left.” A pop-up asks for your email in exchange for a discount you didn’t request. Real people shop in fragments, preferences, half-formed ideas, and even a blend…
The Government of Canada has brought on former Google CFO and Inovia Capital partner Patrick Pichette to spearhead its newly formed digital transformation agency. The news: The feds announced the launch of Digital Transformation Canada and Pichette’s appointment as its CEO on Thursday. The organization will absorb Shared Services Canada, the Canadian Digital Service, and…
Lyte said its vision systems create a direct path from physical capture to simulation, training, and real-time inference. | Source: Lyte Lyte AI Inc. this week said it has raised $165 million in Series C funding. The round valued the physical AI company at $1.6 billion post-money. Founded in 2021, Lyte designs processors, multimodal sensors,…
Robot.com’s sidewalk delivery robot R-Kiwi has completed 2.4 million tasks across campuses and city sidewalks. | Source: Robot.com Robot.com recently announced a seven-year commercial agreement with Sodexo Group. This new agreement builds on a partnership that began in 2021 and that has expanded across select Sodexo-operated college campuses in North America. “Sodexo is an amazing…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed a strange ten-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn’s south pole, the first regular-sided jet pattern ever observed there. In a recent paper published in Science Advances, researchers examined Saturn’s peculiar decahedron, detecting signs of an entirely new atmospheric phenomenon for the gas giant. A similar hexagon-shaped wave resides at Saturn’s…
