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A worm tore through npm by making the malware look perfectly legitimate

A self-spreading worm tore through npm on Tuesday. It poisoned hundreds of packages that huge swathes of the software world quietly rely on. Researchers named it ChainDrop. It is a bigger, meaner descendant of the smaller Shai-Hulud attack that hit the registry earlier this summer. It began by hijacking the GitHub account of the developer […]

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China champions open AI to the world. In private, it’s afraid of one closed American model.

China has spent the past year telling the world that AI should be open, cheap and shared. In private, its officials are unnerved by one American model that is none of those things. Beijing is growing anxious that Anthropic’s Mythos could be turned against it, Bloomberg reported. Officials see the frontier model as a potential […]

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Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising “a generation of millionaires”

Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, and a striking promise: to create “a new generation of millionaires.” The […]

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Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285bn: “We’re committed for the long run”

Bending Spoons has agreed to buy Airtable for $1.285bn. Its chief executive is selling the deal as a long-term bet. “Airtable is a pioneering brand reshaping how teams organize data and manage critical workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the Italian company’s CEO and co-founder. He added that Bending Spoons is “committed to investing in Airtable for […]

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Someone posted 55 vulnerabilities in days. 54 were AI-invented. One still scored a perfect 10.

The software industry runs on a shared list of known bugs. Someone is now seeding that list with breakage that no one ever found. Security firm JFrog found six critical SQLite flaws that were pure fiction, it reported. The advisories claimed severe memory bugs with scores up to 9.8. But the functions they blamed did […]

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Nvidia and Dell back AI cloud startup Volta at a $2.4bn valuation

A new company wants to be the one that pays for everyone else’s AI chips. Volta Infra Holdings has raised $300m in venture funding and lined up a further $5bn in financing to help a broader range of tech firms afford Nvidia’s costly hardware, in a round that values it at $2.4bn. The raise was […]

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AI’s power crunch is sending data-centre builders to the banks

The bottleneck in AI is no longer chips. It is power, and the scramble to secure it is sending data-centre builders to the banks for billions in financing commitments, Bloomberg reports.The shift is a big one. For much of the AI boom the scarce resource was Nvidia’s GPUs; now it is electricity, along with the […]

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PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting.

The Big Four built its fortune on armies of junior consultants and accountants. PwC has started hiring fewer of them. Its US boss says that is the future, and he is comfortable with it. Paul Griggs, PwC’s US senior partner and chief executive, told Business Insider the firm hired fewer consultants and accountants this year […]

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Congress hasn’t written AI’s rules yet. It already spends nine of every ten AI dollars with OpenAI.

Before Congress writes a single rule for artificial intelligence, it has already picked a supplier. In the year to the end of March, House offices spent nine of every ten visible AI dollars on one product: OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The figures come from a CNBC analysis of House disbursement records. Of $113,740 spent on named AI […]

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The one-directional radicalism of Alex Karp: Palantir’s Marxism problem is Palantir

Inside an American government data centre, a system called ImmigrationOS is assembling a stranger’s life. It reaches for a passport record, then a Social Security file, then a year of tax returns, then a licence-plate read captured by a motorway camera, and it stitches them into a single profile that tells an enforcement officer whom […]

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