Five men have pleaded guilty to running laptop farms and providing other assistance to North Koreans to obtain remote IT work at US companies in violation of US law, federal prosecutors said. The pleas come amid a rash of similar schemes orchestrated by hacking and threat groups backed by the North Korean government. The campaigns,...
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Oracle hit hard in Wall Street’s tech sell-off over its huge AI bet
Oracle has been hit harder than Big Tech rivals in the recent sell-off of tech stocks and bonds, as its vast borrowing to fund a pivot to artificial intelligence unnerved Wall Street. The US software group founded by Larry Ellison has made a dramatic entrance to the AI race, committing to spend hundreds of billions...
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(BPRW) iHeartPodcasts and Novel Launch The “The Girlfriends: Untouchable”
(Black PR Wire) WHAT: “The Girlfriends: Untouchable” co-produced by Novel and iHeartPodcasts is a brand new eight-part narrative podcast. The latest season of Global No 1. hit “The Girlfriends” will tell the extraordinary…
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(BPRW) Rolling Out Celebrates 25 Years of Culture, Creativity & Community
(Black PR Wire) ATLANTA, GA – Rolling Out, America’s leading Black-owned multimedia platform, proudly marks its 25th anniversary by expanding into music with the official launch of Rolling Out Music. This new subsidiary is a forward-thinking re…
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Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules
Em dashes have become what many believe to be a telltale sign of AI-generated text over the past few years. The punctuation mark appears frequently in outputs from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, sometimes to the point where readers believe they can identify AI writing by its overuse alone—although people can overuse it, too. On...
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Researchers question Anthropic claim that AI-assisted attack was 90% autonomous
Researchers from Anthropic said they recently observed the “first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign” after detecting China-state hackers using the company’s Claude AI tool in a campaign aimed at dozens of targets. Outside researchers are much more measured in describing the significance of the discovery. Anthropic published the reports on Thursday here and here. In...
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(BPRW) Fueling Economic Development Across the US: How NVIDIA Is Empowering States, Municipalities and Universities to Drive Innovation
(Black PR Wire) To democratize access to AI technology nationwide, AI education and deployment can’t be limited to a few urban tech hubs — it must reach every community, university and state. That’s why NVIDIA is working with ci…
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Who Pays When A.I. Is Wrong?
New court cases seek to define content created by artificial intelligence as defamatory — a novel concept that has captivated some legal experts.
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SoftBank Sells $5.8 Billion Stake in Nvidia to Pay for OpenAI Deals
The move has further stoked concerns among some investors that the rally in artificial intelligence stocks was overdone.
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OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities
On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, two updated versions of its flagship AI models now available in ChatGPT. The company is wrapping the models in the language of anthropomorphism, claiming that they’re warmer, more conversational, and better at following instructions. The release follows complaints earlier this year that its previous models were...