But some Telegram channels, including that of Sepah Cyberi, which is affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, accused Israel and its agents inside the county of being behind the attack and warned "experience has shown that Iran will retaliate." "Wait for rogue drones hitting Zionist oil tankers," its posting said. Iran and Israel have been engaged in a shadow war on land, sea, air and in cyberspace for the past three years, with Israel carrying out strikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities and assassinating scientists and a senior military official. During the tenure of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Israel also started targeting Iranian defense and military officials and key infrastructure. Mr. Bennett called it the "octopus doctrine" of striking inside Iran to damage its capacity to arm proxy militias in the region hostile to the Jewish state.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang on Tuesday, January 24, said that the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) will create powerful tools that require legal regulation and social norms that have yet to be worked out. Huang is one of the most prominent figures in artificial intelligence because Nvidia's chips are widely used in the field, including in a supercomputer that Microsoft Corp built for startup OpenAI, in which Microsoft said Monday it was making a multibillion-dollar investment. Huang was speaking at an event in Stockholm, where officials said Tuesday they were upgrading Sweden's fastest supercomputer using tools from Nvidia to, among other things, develop what is known as a large language model that will be fluent in Swedish. "Remember, if you take a step back and think about all of the things in life that are either convenient, enabling or wonderful for society, it also has probably some potential harm," Huang said. Lawmakers such as Ted Lieu, a Democratic from California in the U.S. House of Representatives, have called for the creation of a US federal agency that would regulate AI. In an opinion piece in the New York Times on Monday, Lieu argued that systems such as facial recognition used by law enforcement agencies possibly can misidentify innocent people from minority groups.

Israel appears to have been behind a drone attack on a military factory in Iran, United States officials say. Iran said on Sunday that it intercepted drones targeting the facility near the central city of Isfahan, adding there were no casualties. The extent of damage could not be independently ascertained. Iranian state media released footage showing a flash in the sky and emergency vehicles at the scene. Israel was behind the drone attack, The Wall Street Journal cited unnamed US officials and people familiar with the strike as saying.

U.S. Central Command and the IDF are taking part in a joint-military exercise known as'Juniper Oak,' that is taking place in Israel and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. An explosion at an Iranian military facility Saturday evening, which authorities said was the result of a drone strike, comes just days after the United States and Israel conducted joint military drills in the region. Iran's authorities announced Saturday that bomb-carrying drones targeted a "workshop" that operates for the Iranian Ministry of Defense in the central city of Isfahan, causing some damage. The officials did not disclose what the factory produces and said the attack was "unsuccessful." "One of (the drones) was hit by the ... air defense and the other two were caught in defense traps and blew up. Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack did not cause any loss of life and caused minor damage to the workshop's roof," Iranian defense officials said in a statement, according to state news agency IRNA.

Deepfake AI has the potential to undermine national security, a cybersecurity expert has warned. Dr Tim Stevens, director of the Cyber Security Research Group at King's College London, said deepfake AI - which can create hyper-realistic images and videos of people - had potential to undermine democratic institutions and national security. Dr Stevens said the widespread availability of these tools could be exploited by states like Russia to'troll' target populations in a bid to achieve foreign policy objectives and'undermine' the national security of countries. He added: 'The potential is there for AIs and deepfakes to affect national security. 'They could be exploited by autocracies like Russia to decrease the level of trust in those institutions and organisations.' Here, MailOnline has put together a deepfake test as well as everything you need to know about deepfakes.

Last year saw a remarkable series of advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). The latest image generation models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in creating highly realistic and stylistically diverse images. And ChatGPT captured the broader public's interest as it pushed the boundaries of what was previously thought possible in natural language processing. The potential of these technologies is vast, with the ability to revolutionize various industries such as education, health care, and the creative arts. However, alongside these benefits, it is important to consider the potential negative consequences and ethical dilemmas that may arise from their use.

Drones attacked a military plant in Iran's central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday. "An explosion has occurred in one of the military centers affiliated to the Ministry of Defense," the deputy head of security for Isfahan Governorate Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari told the semi-official Fars News Agency. Jan-Nesari said the explosion left some damage, "but fortunately there were no casualties." The state news agency IRNA later said the explosion had been caused by "small drones." "There was an unsuccessful attack by small drones against a defense ministry industrial complex and fortunately with predictions and air defense arrangements already in place, one of them (struck)," IRNA said in a post on Twitter, citing the country's defense ministry.

Iran's defence ministry has reported several drone attacks on a military plant in the country's central city of Isfahan. The attacks were "unsuccessful" and there were no casualties, the ministry said in a statement early on Sunday. "One of [the drones] was hit by the … air defence and the other two were caught in defence traps and blew up," said the statement carried by the state news agency, IRNA. "Fortunately, this unsuccessful attack did not cause any loss of life and caused minor damage to the workshop's roof," it said. The ministry did not say who was suspected of carrying out the attack.

Japan and the Netherlands will join the United States in imposing chip bans on China, Bloomberg reports. The goal is to "undercut Beijing's ambition to build its own domestic chip capabilities", according to the outlet's sources. The Dutch company ASML Holding HV will be prevented from transferring deep ultraviolet lithography machines used for chip manufacturing, and similar restrictions will be imposed on the Japanese Nikon Corp. The joint effort is an expansion on US President Joe Biden's policy to limit China's ability to manufacture and develop its own semiconductors, used for AI and machine learning in the military, but will also affect the mobile technology industry as well. US equipment makers complained that preventing only American companies from trading with China is affecting their competitiveness, which lead to Dutch and Japanese government reconsidering how ASML, alongside Tokyo Electron, are exporting such machinery.

ChatGPT opens a Pandora's box of existential fears. Silicon Valley brainiacs have talked about safeguards and kill switches for A.I., but you know they won't pull the plug when their baby turns into M3gan. Once A.I. can run disinformation campaigns at lightning speed, will democracy stand a chance? We seem headed toward a Matrix where "it will become cheaper to show fakes than to show reality," Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, wrote in Tablet. Will bad actors use A.I. to promote bigotry or hijack nuclear weapons?