Lee Saedol was one of the world’s top Go players, and his shocking loss to an A.I. opponent was a harbinger of a new, unsettling era. “It may not be a happy ending,” he says.
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First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “Miss AI” award winner “Kenza Layli” (left) and an unidentified AI-generated woman beside her. (credit: Kenza.Layli / Instagram) An influencer platform called Fanvue recently announced the results of its first “Miss AI” pageant, which sought to judge AI-generated social media influencers and also doubled as a convenient publicity stunt....
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Exim vulnerability affecting 1.5 million servers lets attackers attach malicious files
Enlarge More than 1.5 million email servers are vulnerable to attacks that can deliver executable attachments to user accounts, security researchers said. The servers run versions of the Exim mail transfer agent that are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability that came to light 10 days ago. Tracked as CVE-2024-39929 and carrying a severity rating of...
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Intuit’s AI gamble: Mass layoff of 1,800 paired with hiring spree
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Wednesday, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi announced in a letter to the company that it would be laying off 1,800 employees—about 10 percent of its workforce of around 18,000—while simultaneously planning to hire the same number of new workers as part of a major restructuring effort purportedly focused on AI. “As...
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(BPRW) SHAWN “JAY-Z” CARTER INVESTS IN LEADING LUXURY WATCH PLATFORM WRISTCHECK
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK – Global watch marketplace Wristcheck is proud to announce a significant investment from music icon, business mogul, and watch aficionado Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter – marking a major milestone…
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Microsoft Surrenders OpenAI Board Position
As regulatory scrutiny picks up, the tech giant says it is pleased with the progress OpenAI has made with governance and considers its oversight role unnecessary.
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Amazon Says It Reached a Climate Goal Seven Years Early
The company said it effectively got all of the electricity it used last year from sources that did not produce greenhouse gas emissions. Some experts have faulted the company’s calculations.
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Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Threat actors carried out zero-day attacks that targeted Windows users with malware for more than a year before Microsoft fixed the vulnerability that made them possible, researchers said Tuesday. The vulnerability, present in both Windows 10 and 11, causes devices to open Internet Explorer, a legacy browser that Microsoft decommissioned in...
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In bid to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, AMD to buy Finnish startup for $665M
Enlarge (credit: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images) AMD is to buy Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI for $665 million in one of the largest such takeovers in Europe as the US chipmaker seeks to expand its AI services to compete with market leader Nvidia. California-based AMD said Silo’s 300-member team would use its software...
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OpenAI board shake-up: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft) Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI’s board, while Apple has opted not to take a similar position, reports Axios and Financial Times. The ChatGPT maker plans to update its business partners and investors through regular meetings instead of board representation. The development comes...