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More than many other banks, SVB catered to how risky tech start-ups and their backers do not adhere to normal business practices.

Enlarge (credit: Anthropic) On Tuesday, Anthropic introduced Claude, a large language model (LLM) that can generate text, write code, and function as an AI assistant similar to ChatGPT. The model originates from core concerns about future AI safety and Anthropic has trained it using a technique it calls “Constitutional AI.” Two versions of the AI...

Enlarge / Images of the Samsung Galaxy S21, which runs with an Exynos chipset. (credit: Samsung) Google is urging owners of certain Android phones to take urgent action to protect themselves from critical vulnerabilities that give skilled hackers the ability to surreptitiously compromise their devices by making a specially crafted call to their number.  It’s...

Emmett Shear was a co-founder of the Amazon-owned streaming service and managed it for 16 years.

The promised “live” demonstration of the bot had, in fact, been recorded. Shares of Baidu, the company behind the technology, tumbled in Hong Kong.

The move reflects fears in Britain and elsewhere in the West that the popular app’s Chinese ownership could share user information with Beijing.

Enlarge / An example of lighting and skin effects in the AI image generator Midjourney v5. (credit: Julie W. Design) On Wednesday, Midjourney announced version 5 of its commercial AI image synthesis service, which can produce photorealistic images at a quality level that some AI art fans are calling creepy and “too perfect.” Midjourney v5...

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Multiple threat actors—one working on behalf of a nation-state—gained access to the network of a US federal agency by exploiting a four-year-old vulnerability that remained unpatched, the US government warned. Exploit activities by one group likely began in August 2021 and last August by the other, according to an advisory jointly...

Enlarge (credit: Getty) A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children’s pool with waste heat from a data center from startup Deep Green. Data center owners have long tried to limit the impact of heat...

Enlarge / Microsoft 365 Copilot will attempt to automate content generation and analysis in all of the former Microsoft Office apps. (credit: Microsoft) Today Microsoft took the wraps off of Microsoft 365 Copilot, its rumored effort to build automated AI-powered content-generation features into all of the Microsoft 365 apps. The capabilities Microsoft demonstrated make Copilot...