Economy
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Hang out with Ars in San Jose and DC this fall for two infrastructure events
Enlarge / Infrastructure! Howdy, Arsians! Last year, we partnered with IBM to host an in-person event in the Houston area…
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Google AI earns silver medal equivalent at International Mathematical Olympiad
Enlarge / An illustration provided by Google. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and…
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OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI) Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online…
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Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files
(credit: Chrome) Google is redesigning Chrome malware detections to include password-protected executable files that users can upload for deep scanning,…
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Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers
Enlarge (credit: sasha85ru | Getty Imates) In 2012, an industry-wide coalition of hardware and software makers adopted Secure Boot to…
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We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands
Enlarge In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called “prompts” into…
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CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs
Enlarge / CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software brought down as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs over the weekend. (credit: CrowdStrike)…
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Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”
Enlarge / Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi…
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How Russia-linked malware cut heat to 600 Ukrainian buildings in deep winter
Enlarge / The cityscape from the tower of the Lviv Town Hall in winter. (credit: Anastasiia Smolienko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing…
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The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) In the AI world, there’s a buzz in the air about a new…
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