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A cyber attack shut down a small British power plant for four days in July. Hackers affiliated with the Iranian regime were responsible, according to the Telegraph. Tony Diver, Rozina Sabur and Matt Oliver broke the story on Saturday. It is thought to be the first time hackers linked to Tehran have closed such a […]
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SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader. The company wants someone to build and lead a trading team for its own fuel and power needs, according to Bloomberg. Julian Hast, who covers US gas markets from Houston, spotted the job on Friday. The role “focuses on physical and financial natural gas trading”, the posting says. […]
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OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase DiFeliciantonio reported it for Politico. It is the first major AI lab to call for changes to the transparency law. That law was the first of its kind in the United States. What […]
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OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to Salesforce, according to The Information, which broke the story on Friday. She left a week after her former boss. Denise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, walked out after nine months. Both women came from […]
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The New York Times has started showing readers text written by a machine. A new search page answers queries with excerpts, links to Times stories and AI-generated summaries of Times reporting. Max Tani, Semafor’s media editor, reported the test on Sunday. The paper rolled it out quietly to a small subset of visitors over recent […]
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The US Department of Homeland Security proposed a rule on Monday. It would charge employers $103,265 for a new H-1B visa. Daniel Wiessner reported the filing for Reuters. A federal judge blocked a similar fee in June, calling it unlawful. H-1B visas let US employers hire foreign workers trained in specialty fields, and the technology […]
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Amazon raised the price of its own devices overnight on 21 August. The increases run to 60% on the cheapest product in the range, and they were not announced. Fortune reported the change across the hardware line. Pocket-lint had reported the Fire TV increases earlier the same day. Amazon confirmed the rises and blamed memory […]
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Nvidia took a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday. Cloverleaf secures land and electricity for data centres. It is the third company of that kind Nvidia has bought into in quick succession, according to The Information. Neither company disclosed terms. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday morning that Nvidia was expected to invest […]
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Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in a notification letter dated 21 August and posted on the California attorney general’s website. The letter opens the account of what happened with a […]
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A Twitch streamer sued Twitch and Amazon on 20 August over the use of livestreams to train Amazon’s generative AI. The complaint runs to 37 pages. Counsel filed it in the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. The case number is 3:26-cv-08721. Its central documentary claim concerns a contract. Twitch announced an opt-out setting […]
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