A security breach at the maker of ChatGPT last year revealed internal discussions among researchers and other employees, but not the code behind OpenAI’s systems.
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Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn
Funding for A.I. firms made up nearly half the $56 billion in U.S. start-up financing from April to June, according to PitchBook.
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How Tom Hanks’s Son Spawned a Hateful Meme Online
When Chet Hanks first used the phrase “white boy summer,” it was meant to be fun and playful, he said. Now it has been appropriated around the world by white supremacists and other hate groups.
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384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that redirected visitors to malicious sites, researchers said. For years, the JavaScript code, hosted at polyfill[.]com, was a legitimate open source project that allowed older browsers to handle advanced functions that weren’t natively...
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(BPRW) Tulsa to Secure U.S. Position as Global Tech Leader with Approximately $51 Million Award from Economic Development Administration
(Black PR Wire) TULSA, Okla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, the Biden-Harris administration and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded approximately $51 million to the Tulsa Hub for Equitable and Trustworthy Autonomy (THETA) – a …
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In Ukraine War, A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots
Driven by the war with Russia, many Ukrainian companies are working on a major leap forward in the weaponization of consumer technology.
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Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla
The Tesla chief executive’s polarizing statements have alienated some potential customers and may be partly responsible for a recent slump in sales.
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“RegreSSHion” vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux
Enlarge Researchers have warned of a critical vulnerability affecting the OpenSSH networking utility that can be exploited to give attackers complete control of Linux and Unix servers with no authentication required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6387, allows unauthenticated remote code execution with root system rights on Linux systems that are based on glibc, an open...
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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Social Media Laws in Florida and Texas
The justices unanimously returned two cases, which concerned state laws that supporters said were aimed at “Silicon Valley censorship,” to lower courts. Critics had said the laws violated the sites’ First Amendment rights.
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Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says
Regulators said the subscription service introduced last year is a “pay or consent” method to collect personal data and bolster advertising.