Technology News: Tech Highlights: Adobe, HP AI Laptops, India Post Scam, and More

Recently, Adobe faced backlash over using customer data to train its AI systems, buried in its terms of service. After mass subscription cancellations, Adobe rolled back those terms, reassuring customers their data wouldn't be used for training AI. The controversy reflects the need for transparent AI data policies since companies acted on said requirement only upon public criticism. The case of Adobe shows what can go wrong with generating customer content to train AI models, a process where clarity in communication is very important and strict AI policies must be followed.

The Indian government has alerted over fake courier frauds by messages impersonating India Post. The SMS fraud aims to steal personal information by luring the recipient towards a harmful link. Press Information Bureau (PIB) confirmed the authenticity of the text received by many that says the package is held up due to incomplete address information. The fraudulent message contains a link of the India Post website while using another URL. It's similarly advised that the citizens should be able to verify links and be a bit careful to avoid falling for these scams.

With the adoption going as high as 780 million users in 2028, increasingly rising privacy concerns have been raised over smart home devices. Reports have surfaced on how the key industry players, including Google and Amazon, aggressively collect information from users through connected applications and devices. For example, Amazon Alexa was found to collect 28 possible points of privacy data that include some sensitive data like location and health information. On their part, Google Assistant collected 22. These portray typical examples of the ongoing risks to data privacy and their implications for users mooting smart home integration.

HP is launching its new AI PC range in India, which includes the HP OmniBook X and HP EliteBook Ultra. These devices come under ARM architecture with Snapdragon X Elite chipset processors that pack dedicated Neural Processing Units handling assignments of 45 Tera ops per second. The EliteBook Ultra targets enterprise and professional audiences and will cost around Rs 1,69,934, while the price tag of an OmniBook X is touted at around Rs 1,39,999. Other AI features include the HP AI Companion, while advanced specifications include up to 1TB SSD storage and long battery life across both models.

Earlier this year, Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI and set up a new shop focused solely on ways to ensure a superintelligence behaves safely. This would free Sutskever from such a wide variety of focus distractions and allow him to fully concentrate on developing some fundamentally important things in AI on his part. The Palo Alto- and Tel Aviv-based company would move ahead with advanced capabilities while keeping an ever-stricter-than-before focus on safety. Colleagues from OpenAI, like Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy, would find their way to SSI, thus signaling an even larger AI community effort to be less worried about fast innovation and more concerned about being safe.

A recent study by IBM shows that only 40% of Indian Chief Executive Officers exude confidence that they have sufficient generative AI governance in place. Leaders have underlined that improving AI governance is of prime necessity if it has to successfully overcome the cultural and implementation problems in the workforce that are looming large in its way, as the use of AI picks up pace across all sectors. The survey found that 71% of the Indian Chief Executive Officers who responded said trusted AI is impossible without good governance. 75% felt that AI governance should be developed at the same time as AI solutions or tools and not after the fact.

Yet another reason that people love their iPhones is iMessage—a feature-rich, safe, and free messaging app. At the moment, Apple is updating iMessage with the iOS 17 release to include auto-transcribed voice messages that automatically turn them into text so recipients can read them if they can't listen to the audio. Quite useful in situations where playing the audio might be inappropriate or risky. It's the addition of auto-transcribed voice messages that further propagates the usefulness and usability of iMessage, making it one of the most robust messaging devices around.

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