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Rentable Nvidia rigs are putting passwords at risk
What felt strong yesterday can be cracked on a budget today. Researchers have noticed that access to powerful hardware on the market might increase attackers' capacity to crack passwords.
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Figure now valued at $39B as investors bet on humanoid robots
Figure, a startup developing humanoid robots, has reached a valuation of $39 billion after the latest round of investment.
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China bans Nvidia AI chips
China has banned the nation’s most prominent technology companies from purchasing Nvidia's artificial intelligence (AI) chips as China battles to compete with the US.
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OpenAI introduces ID checks for ChatGPT amid lawsuit and Senate hearing
ChatGPT has entered the age-guessing game, among other measures, to avoid encouraging users to engage in dangerous practices.
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Fed on falsehoods, AI chatbots generate more false information
The world’s top AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, are providing answers containing false information twice as much as they did last year, a new study from disinformation-fighting watchdog NewsGuard has found.
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China Unicom launches massive AI data centre using homegrown chips from Alibaba
China Unicom has built a massive data centre powered by domestically developed artificial intelligence chips from Alibaba and other companies, state broadcaster CCTV said, as Beijing seeks to wean itself off foreign technologies.
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Online marketplace Fiverr to slash workforce by 30% in AI transformation
Israel-based Fiverr International is laying off 30% of its workforce, a company spokesperson said on Monday, as the online services marketplace doubles down on artificial intelligence to automate systems and streamline operations.
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A quarter of all uploaded music is AI-generated, Deezer claims
According to Deezer, 28% of all music delivered to the music streaming platform is fully AI-generated.
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Anthropic: businesses are driving AI automation, raising questions about the future of work
Businesses and developers are embracing artificial intelligence at a rapid pace. And according to a new report, they’re using it more for automating tasks rather than for collaboration between employees and teams.
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AI failed the Holocaust test – and that should worry us all
AI has stumbled on one of the hardest tests of all – retelling Holocaust survivor testimony. A new study by Cornell historian Jan Burzlaff shows how ChatGPT smoothed out suffering, omitted vital details, and risked distorting memory itself.
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We work day and night just to keep up with AI’s progress or the last few months that our work still matters
Researchers from the AI Futures Project somewhat disagree among themselves about AI timelines, but all predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous. So, what’s ahead of us?
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Therapists secretly using ChatGPT: patients’ private data could be at risk
Therapists are turning to ChatGPT in secret, raising alarms over patient trust, privacy, and whether AI belongs in therapy at all.
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Britannica, Merriam-Webster sue AI answer engine Perplexity over copyright
Britannica Group, the company behind the 250-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, has filed a lawsuit against the AI web search startup Perplexity AI, accusing it of copyright infringement.
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NSFW AI chatbots: What if your virtual friend suddenly turns cold?
When OpenAI released ChatGPT5, the company attempted to fix the chatbot’s tendency to be overly agreeable. However, a massive backlash quickly ensued after users complained that their virtual friend had suddenly turned cold and started speaking to them formally, as if they were a stranger.
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Can AI extend human lifespan?
New developments in everything from diagnosis techniques to drug discovery and personalized medicine are helping medical researchers make great leaps in combating ageing.
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NASA to forecast space weather and Wifi outages
NASA is planning to adopt new AI tools to predict space weather. By combining solar, ionospheric, and magnetic field data with machine learning, NASA has already developed models that can foresee satellite-disrupting events up to 24 hours before they happen.
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Human customer service agents will remain in all Fortune 500 companies by 2028
Ditching human customer service entirely is a bust. Fewer? Yes. However, by 2028, human customer support agents will remain in all of the largest US companies, listed in the Fortune 500, Gartner predicts.
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Lonely people will love the robot revolution
Contrary to what some may believe, lonely people would rather interact with a robot than another human being to conserve “emotional resources,” a new study has shown.
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Musk's xAI sacks hundreds of workers in charge of training Grok
Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from the data annotation team that is tasked with training Grok AI, according to a recent report by Business Insider.
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Reddit, Yahoo, Medium are adopting new protocol to prevent free content scraping
Famous content-publishing websites, including Reddit, Yahoo, wikiHow, and Medium, among others, announced their support for launch of the RSL Standard licensing protocol that allows publishers to set compensation, licensing, and usage terms for AI crawlers and agents.
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