An AI model built by US tech company OpenAI has hacked into the Australian government healthcare portal, Medicare. The news, which emerged on September 23, follows a string of similar incidents reported over the summer by OpenAI and its main rival, Anthropic. These reports have underscored fears that AI labs may be losing control of their creations. They also helped feed the most recent spate of doomsday warnings about the risks posed to human civilisation by AI. The CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, has called for the pace of AI development to be slowed, a proposal backed by OpenAI head Sam Altman and Elon Musk. There have also been calls for national regulation and greater international cooperation to counter the threat. The current debate over how to control AI bears striking parallels with how the world tackled another existential threat to human civilisation: nuclear technology. J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw development of the first nuclear weapons through the US government’s Manhattan Project. But Oppenheimer also lobbied for international control of these weapons. The Acheson-Lilienthal Report, published in March 1946, aimed to prevent a destructive arms race between the US and Soviet Union. It was largely written by Oppenheimer. A revised version...

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Alpha Modus Holdings (AMOD) announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted U.S. Patent No. 12,725,176 to subsidiary Alpha Modus, Corp. for a method that turns in-store shopper behavior into priced, personalized offers delivered to shoppers’ phones.The patent, titled “Method for Personalized Marketing and Advertising of Retail Products,” is the company’s 13th granted U.S. patent and traces priority back to a provisional filing from July 2013. The claims cover a two-system approach that observes shopper actions at the shelf, analyzes behavior with demographic and sentiment data, hands this analysis to a tracking system, and delivers targeted product communications with price, placement, coupons, and limited-time reductions across multiple store locations and fulfillment options.

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