Binance Says Hackers Plotted $6.3 Billion Crypto Heist for Months
A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.
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Apple’s Q4 results show the enterprise tide turning to local AI
While delivering record Q4 revenue, Apple’s financial results revealed a $33 billion cost associated with memory price inflation, representing the true cost of the growing bubble of AI data
Google’s first AI data center in space is up and running
Google’s first experimental data center satellite as part of the Suncatcher project is now operational. The satellite was launched in October, and after several weeks
UK AI minister says a serious cyber breach is ‘extremely likely’
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan said a serious cyber breach is “extremely likely” in both the public and private sector, and that neither is ready.
AI inference startup Fal doubles its value to $16B in a $1.3B round
Fal, which hosts image, video and audio AI models for developers, raised $1.3B led by Bessemer at a $16B valuation, double its April value. Nvidia
Voting Problems Cause a Surge in Misleading Fraud Claims Online
Mentions of “cheat,” “steal,” “rig” and similar terms spiked on X this morning as voting began.
OpenAI and Anthropic Set Up ‘War Rooms’ to Fight Disinfo About Midterm Elections
OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies have vowed to protect Tuesday’s elections from efforts to undermine democracy.
AMD needs a big quarter to escape Intel’s fate as AI fears grow
AMD reports third-quarter results on Tuesday after its shares fell about 17% in two days alongside Intel. Analysts expect revenue to rise 41%, but investors
UK’s ARIA will test Lumai’s light-based AI servers in a data centre
ARIA’s Scaling Inference Lab will deploy Lumai’s Iris servers, which use beams of light to run AI calculations, as its first optical platform. Lumai claims
Beyond screens: Mercedes-Benz’s new holographic heads-up display
Do screens in cars represent luxury? Judging by the latest car interiors, the answer would seem to be an emphatic “yes.” Screens aren’t just getting
Most of our measures of a key cognitive process don’t agree
It’s widely acknowledged that it’s nearly impossible to publish negative results in scientific journals. “We didn’t see anything” is a much harder sell than finding
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I.
Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google’s search
Binance Says Hackers Plotted $6.3 Billion Heist for Months
A report from the cryptocurrency exchange described a monthslong campaign involving fake job interviews that exploited an engineer’s work computer and an internal A.I. tool.
OpenAI hires former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll for national security
OpenAI has hired Dan Driscoll, the 26th Secretary of the US Army, the company said on Monday. He takes a new role: senior counselor for