The social media company posted rising sales after two quarters of declines, but added that the ad market remains unpredictable.
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The Race to Avert Quantum Computing Threat With New Encryption Standards
Quantum technology could compromise our encryption systems. Can America replace them before it’s too late?
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Alphabet Has Strong Ad Sales but Cloud Business Disappoints
Google’s parent company reported that sales were up 11 percent from a year ago while profit jumped 42 percent to $19.7 billion.
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US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban
Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI GPU chips to China are now in effect sooner than expected, according to a report from Reuters. The curbs were initially scheduled...
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(BPRW) Harlem Globetrotters + Microsoft = The Harlem CODEtrotters; The STEM tech Coding Curriculum Launches Today With Focus on Black and Brown Youth Communities
(Black PR Wire) NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– With a commitment in advancing excellence in tech education and empowering Black and Brown youth communities, Microsoft and the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters today unveil The Harlem CODEt…
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1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account
Enlarge (credit: 1Password) 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity and authentication service that disclosed a breach on Friday. “On September 29, we detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance that we use to...
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Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others on AI transparency in new report
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Wednesday, Stanford University researchers issued a report on major AI models and found them greatly lacking in transparency, reports Reuters. The report, called “The Foundation Model Transparency Index,” examined models (such as GPT-4) created by OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and others. It aims to shed light on...
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Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster
Enlarge / In this still captured from a video provided by Nvidia, a simulated robot hand learns pen tricks, trained by Eureka, using simultaneous trials. (credit: Nvidia) On Friday, researchers from Nvidia, UPenn, Caltech, and the University of Texas at Austin announced Eureka, an algorithm that uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model for designing training goals...
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(BPRW) National Women’s Small Business Month Special
(Black PR Wire) Miami, FL – October marks National Women’s Small Business Month! Women have been taking entrepreneurship to a new level, starting businesses left and right and showing young girls that they can do it too. BPRW’s Thrivin i…
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Cameo to the Moon, and Back
A start-up that offers fans a way to buy personalized videos from celebrities was supercharged by pandemic boredom and venture capital. All it had to do was grow forever.