Economy
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OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as nervous employees hold all-hands meeting
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Ars Technica) On Friday afternoon, not long after news of CEO Sam Altman’s abrupt and surprising…
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“Hallucinating” AI models help coin Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year
Enlarge / A screenshot of the Cambridge Dictionary website where it announced its 2023 word of the year, “hallucinate.” (credit:…
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Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world’s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual—if not unprecedented—tactic to pressure…
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“Make It Real” AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software
Enlarge / A shot of tldraw’s “Make it Real” in action, provided by Ashe on X: “Ok…@tldraw is super fun.…
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Unauthorized “David Attenborough” AI clone narrates developer’s life, goes viral
Enlarge / Screen capture from a demo video of an AI-generated unauthorized David Attenborough voice narrating a developer’s video feed.…
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No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
Enlarge / Users in the extended European Economic Area will soon be able to avoid most of the things that…
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The “Windows App” for Mac, iOS, and browsers is a fancy remote desktop, for now
Enlarge / If you have a bunch of Windows systems, Microsoft now has an app for that. It’s called “Windows…
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From toy to tool: DALL-E 3 is a wake-up call for visual artists—and the rest of us
Enlarge / A composite of three DALL-E 3 AI art generations: an oil painting of Hercules fighting a shark, a…
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Developers can’t seem to stop exposing credentials in publicly accessible code
Enlarge (credit: Victor De Schwanberg/Science Photo Library via Getty Images) Despite more than a decade of reminding, prodding, and downright…
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Holy chips! Microsoft’s new AI silicon will power its chatty assistants
Enlarge / A photo of the Microsoft Azure Maia 100 chip that has been altered with splashes of color by…
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