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Amazon MGM Studios has dropped Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s nearly finished film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Variety and Deadline reported on Thursday. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield as Altman, had tested well with early audiences and was being shown to other studios the same day Amazon confirmed it would not release it. The decision […]
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Norway will ban the use of generative AI tools by elementary school children starting from the new school year in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced on Friday. The ban applies to students in first through seventh grade, covering ages six to 13, according to Reuters. Støre said at a press conference that […]
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Most of the AI industry is betting that bigger models mean smarter machines. A new startup is betting the opposite. Aether AI, based in San Diego, has raised a $20mn seed round to chase a different idea entirely. Its founder thinks the next leap will not come from scale. It will come from teaching machines […]
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AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […]
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Hackers are not really breaking in any more. They are walking through doors we hold open for them. This past week made the shift plain. Two campaigns showed that the things developers trust most, open-source code and AI tools, have become the easiest way to attack them. 1,000 poisoned packages The first is a group […]
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Hackers have stopped breaking in. They’re abusing the things developers already trust. Read More »
The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […]
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Google’s AI is having trouble telling horror stories from real life. Ask it about certain online monsters, and it will describe them as documented fact. According to a report by Futurism, Google’s AI Overviews repeatedly present entries from the “SCP Foundation” as real. The SCP Foundation is a vast collaborative fan-fiction project. Its “anomalies” are […]
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OpenAI is hiring for its stock-market debut on two very different fronts. One is the research lab. The other is Washington. This week, the company said Dean Ball will join on 6 July to lead a new team called Strategic Futures. Ball is not a researcher. He is a policy operator, and until recently he […]
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A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of it up. The startup is called Subquadratic. It came out of […]
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To build a serious rival to Nvidia, Google has reached for Nvidia’s own playbook. A Wall Street Journal investigation lays out how Google is using financial guarantees and what the industry calls “circular financing”, the very tactics that helped make demand for Nvidia’s chips unstoppable, to win data-centre customers for its own silicon. The clearest […]
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