The House Homeland Security Committee called on the chief executive of the cybersecurity firm to testify on the disruption.
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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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The first GPT-4-class AI model anyone can download has arrived: Llama 405B
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / Getty Images) In the AI world, there’s a buzz in the air about a new AI language model released Tuesday by Meta: Llama 3.1 405B. The reason? It’s potentially the first time anyone can download a GPT-4-class large language model (LLM) for free and run it on their own hardware....
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In Silicon Valley, Democrats Are Invigorated by Biden’s Withdrawal
Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and others have endorsed Donald J. Trump. But President Biden’s withdrawal has re-energized Democrats across the tech industry and may blunt that momentum.
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CrowdStrike-Microsoft Outage: What Caused the IT Meltdown
Airlines, hospitals and people’s computers were affected after CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company, sent out a flawed software update.
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Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Systems Have Become
While in some corners of Silicon Valley people worry about the risks of A.I., a simple failed software update caused a worldwide outage.
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Microsoft says 8.5M systems hit by CrowdStrike BSOD, releases USB recovery tool
Enlarge / A bad update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software crashed millions of Windows PCs last week. (credit: CrowdStrike) By Monday morning, many of the major disruptions from the flawed CrowdStrike security update late last week had cleared up. Flight delays and cancellations were no longer front-page news, and multiple Starbucks locations near me are...
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Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools
Enlarge / Researchers write, “In this image, the person on the left (Scarlett Johansson) is real, while the person on the right is AI-generated. Their eyeballs are depicted underneath their faces. The reflections in the eyeballs are consistent for the real person, but incorrect (from a physics point of view) for the fake person.” (credit:...
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Data for A.I. Training Is Disappearing Fast, Study Shows
New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence.
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How Getty and Shutterstock Are Building AI Image Generators
Companies like Getty have begun developing A.I. models with their own data, part of a broader push to build artificial intelligence with licensed content.