Economy

March 27, 2024
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“The king is dead”—Claude 3 surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the first time

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-4…
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March 26, 2024
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Thousands of phones and routers swept into proxy service, unbeknownst to users

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Crooks are working overtime to anonymize their illicit online activities using thousands of devices of unsuspecting…
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March 25, 2024
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Justice Department indicts 7 accused in 14-year hack campaign by Chinese gov

Enlarge (credit: peterschreiber.media | Getty Images) The US Justice Department on Monday unsealed an indictment charging seven men with hacking…
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March 22, 2024
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Never-before-seen data wiper may have been used by Russia against Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have unearthed never-before-seen wiper malware tied to the Kremlin and an operation two years ago…
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March 21, 2024
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World’s first global AI resolution unanimously adopted by United Nations

Enlarge / The United Nations building in New York. (credit: Getty Images) On Thursday, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously…
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March 21, 2024
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Vernor Vinge, father of the tech singularity, has died at age 79

Enlarge / A photo of Vernor Vinge in 2006. (credit: Raul654) On Wednesday, author David Brin announced that Vernor Vinge,…
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March 21, 2024
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Hackers can extract secret encryption keys from Apple’s Mac chips

Enlarge / Apple’s M1 chip. (credit: Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images) A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series…
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March 20, 2024
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GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

Enlarge When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created a wave of immense hype and existential…
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March 20, 2024
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Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia. (credit: Nvidia) In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike…
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March 20, 2024
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Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20,000 car parts

Enlarge / A pit stop during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix in early March evokes how the team’s manager…
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