Black Americans in France is an ongoing series highlighting African Americans living abroad during the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS — “There are three types of Black folk living in Paris,” novelist Jake Lamar told me recently when we met at a cafe near his home in Montmartre. Lamar, 63, became part of a long rich...
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Alphabet Reports 29% Jump in Profit as A.I. Efforts Begin to Pay Off
Google’s parent company narrowly topped revenue and profit expectations, driven by its search engine and cloud unit, and it said A.I. investments were “driving new growth.”
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A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation
The presumptive Democratic nominee has won concessions from Big Tech leaders on A.I., but she hasn’t successfully pushed Congress to regulate.
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From Online Drug Lord to Crypto Entrepreneur, Blake Benthall Is Back in Business
After Blake Benthall was arrested for running Silk Road 2.0, the infamous illegal drug bazaar, things didn’t go the way you might expect.
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We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands
Enlarge In June, Runway debuted a new text-to-video synthesis model called Gen-3 Alpha. It converts written descriptions called “prompts” into HD video clips without sound. We’ve since had a chance to use it and wanted to share our results. Our tests show that careful prompting isn’t as important as matching concepts likely found in the...
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CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M Windows PCs
Enlarge / CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software brought down as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs over the weekend. (credit: CrowdStrike) Security firm CrowdStrike has posted a preliminary post-incident report about the botched update to its Falcon security software that caused as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash over the weekend, delaying flights, disrupting...
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Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric”
Enlarge / Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (credit: Getty Images) On Monday, Elon Musk announced the start of training for what he calls “the world’s most powerful AI training cluster”...
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How Russia-linked malware cut heat to 600 Ukrainian buildings in deep winter
Enlarge / The cityscape from the tower of the Lviv Town Hall in winter. (credit: Anastasiia Smolienko / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images) As Russia has tested every form of attack on Ukraine’s civilians over the past decade, both digital and physical, it’s often used winter as one of its weapons—launching cyberattacks on electric utilities...
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Win With Black Men raises over $1 million for Kamala Harris in less than 2 hours
Kamala Harris has received another large public sum of donation funds. On July 22, Win With Black Men hosted a virtual call where over $1 million was raised for her campaign in less than two hours. Roland Martin broadcasted the call across various social media channels through his Black Star Network. The call happened one...