Economy
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Amazon pours another $4B into Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total…
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5 charged in “Scattered Spider,” one of the most profitable phishing scams ever
Federal prosecutors have charged five men with running an extensive phishing scheme that allegedly allowed them to compromise hundreds of…
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Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for “Best CBD Gummies“
“Updating our site reputation abuse policy” is how Google, in almost wondrously opaque fashion, announced yesterday that big changes have…
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A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is “sold out” in parts of US
The Starlink waitlist is back in certain parts of the US, including several large cities on the West Coast and…
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Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players…
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AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says
Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI’s role in filmmaking during the 2024 CNBC Delivering…
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ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher
In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced…
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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected…
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New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI…
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Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may be their ability to emotionally manipulate humans if…
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