Over that past few years, DJI has essentially become the Apple of drones — and for good reason. The company’s Phantom series UAVs are some of the best, most user-friendly drones on the market — and the flagship Phantom 3 is the cream of the crop.
In addition to all the requisite specs and features you’d expect from a top-of-the-line drone like this, the Phantom 3 Advanced boasts DJI’s new Lightbridge technology, which allows the operator to see what the drone sees live and in HD from up to a mile away. It also has a three-axis gimbal for super-smooth video, and a slew of sensors that make it easier to fly both indoors and out. All told, this is one of the best drones money can buy right now. Courtesy of Drone World, we’re giving away the Phantom 3 Advanced package, which includes a backpack and retails for $999. Contest over
AI companies spend enormous amounts of time convincing us their technology is safe and secure. But what happens when those same companies become targets of increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks? Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now facing that question. According to a Washington Post report, cybersecurity startup Cathedral discovered vulnerabilities that let its researchers access sensitive information in Anthropic's internal systems.
The researchers used AI agents to identify potential entry points in less than 12 hours. Interestingly, they didn't need to crack Claude itself. Instead, they exploited weaknesses in third-party business applications that Anthropic uses for everyday operations. Anthropic's security testing program disclosed the findings, which allows outside researchers to identify and report vulnerabilities.
Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job.
Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch).
AI can describe a picture, identify objects, and answer questions about what a camera sees. But when a blind user needs a quick answer, getting an entire spoken essay about the scene isn't exactly helpful. Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have found that AI-powered visual assistance can leave blind users doing too much work to get the information they actually need.
The study, titled Say It My Way: Exploring Control in Conversational Visual Question Answering with Blind Users, examined how people interact with Be My AI, an AI-powered feature of the Be My Eyes app. The researchers found that users often received lengthy descriptions that didn't adequately address their immediate goals, forcing them to ask follow-up questions or find ways to steer the AI towards a more useful answer.