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Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents
The Facebook page was taken down for “violating our policies against coordinated harm,” according to Meta.
Instagram Will Limit Content for Teenagers Based on PG-13 Ratings
The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.
Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network
Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday. F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed the breach on Wednesday. F5 said a “sophisticated”...
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost
On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI language model that reportedly delivers performance similar to what its frontier model Claude Sonnet 4 achieved five months ago but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed. The new model is available now to all Claude app, web, and API users. If the...
ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says
On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December. The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions, which the company had loosened in February but then dramatically tightened after an August lawsuit from parents of a teen who...
Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”
Federal prosecutors have seized $15 billion from the alleged kingpin of an operation that used imprisoned laborers to trick unsuspecting people into making investments in phony funds, often after spending months faking romantic relationships with the victims. Such “pig butchering” scams have operated for years. They typically work when members of the operation initiate conversations...
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
On Tuesday, Nvidia announced it will begin taking orders for the DGX Spark, a $4,000 desktop AI computer that wraps one petaflop of computing performance and 128GB of unified memory into a form factor small enough to sit on a desk. Its biggest selling point is likely its large integrated memory that can run larger...
OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views
“ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction.” That’s OpenAI’s stated goal in a new research paper released Thursday about measuring and reducing political bias in its AI models. The company says that “people use ChatGPT as a tool to learn and explore ideas” and argues “that only works if they trust ChatGPT to be...
Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.