The payments processing start-up was valued at $95 billion in 2021, but private company dealmaking has been hurt by souring global economic conditions.
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Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine Could Include Cyberattacks, Microsoft Says
Moscow also appears to be stepping up influence operations to weaken European and U.S. support for sending more aid to the Ukrainian government.
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OpenAI checked to see whether GPT-4 could take over the world
Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) As part of pre-release safety testing for its new GPT-4 AI model, launched Tuesday, OpenAI allowed an AI testing group to assess the potential risks of the model’s emergent capabilities—including “power-seeking behavior,” self-replication, and self-improvement. While the testing group found that GPT-4 was “ineffective at the autonomous replication task,” the nature...
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Security firm Rubrik is latest to be felled by GoAnywhere vulnerability
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Rubrik, the Silicon Valley data security company, said that it experienced a network intrusion made possible by a zero-day vulnerability in a product it used called GoAnywhere. In an advisory posted on Tuesday, Rubrik CISO Michael Mestrovich said an investigation into the breach found that the intruders gained access to mainly...
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Hilariously sad: My great mobile provider, Mint, will sell to T-Mobile for $1.35B
Enlarge / Hug it out, boys. As every Roman historian and Shakespeare fan knows, a soothsayer once told Caesar to beware the Ides of March, for on that day, dark and terrible things would happen. I like to think the message was intended for me, too, because today, my beloved low-cost wireless carrier, Mint Mobile,...
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OpenAI Unveils GPT-4, Months After ChatGPT Stunned Silicon Valley
The company unveiled new technology called GPT-4 four months after its ChatGPT stunned Silicon Valley. The update is an improvement, but it carries some of the same baggage.
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10 Ways GPT-4 Is Impressive but Still Flawed
OpenAI has upgraded the technology that powers its online chatbot in notable ways. It’s more accurate, but it still makes things up.
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AI Funding Frenzy Escalates
In just weeks, a gold rush into artificial intelligence start-ups has become a full-blown mania.
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Meta, Facebook’s Parent, to Lay Off Another 10,000 Workers
It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November. Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has declared 2023 the “year of efficiency.”
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Volkswagen Will Invest $193 Billion in Electric Cars and Software
The German automaker announced a plan to accelerate its transition to battery-powered vehicles and bolster operations in China and North America.