Perplexity also has a Deep Research tool now, and it’s powered by a version of DeepSeek R1. According to the announcement, the AI search engine’s new tool does “in-depth research and analysis on your behalf,” by crawling the web and compiles a comprehensive report of its findings. If Deep Research sounds familiar, that’s because Google … Read more
As this week’s AI Action Summit begins in Paris, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna explains why data protection laws like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation are emerging as key tools for regulating AI. For some, it may have come as a surprise that the first existential legal challenges large language models (LLMs) faced after their market launch … Read more
Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products. According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a group of 10 unnamed defendants allegedly used … Read more
Google’s OSS-Fuzz tool, now enhanced with AI capabilities, has discovered 26 new vulnerabilities in open-source projects, including a long-overlooked flaw in the vital OpenSSL library. OSS-Fuzz is a Google-developed fuzzing system that the company has been using to continuously test hundreds of open-source projects since 2016. In August 2023, Google first announced it was working … Read more
