Robyn Denholm, normally media shy, is campaigning to get shareholders to back the chief executive’s trillion-dollar compensation package.
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Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
When software engineer Joshua Fonseca recently connected the GameCube simulation classic Animal Crossing to a modern AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT, he decided to shake things up. By programming the AI to roleplay as villagers growing aware of their debt situation, and giving them a shared memory to track conversations, Fonseca...
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F.T.C. Starts Inquiry Into A.I. Chatbots and Child Safety
The Federal Trade Commission said it was starting an inquiry of how six major tech companies monitor activity that could harm minors.
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OpenAI and Microsoft sign preliminary deal to revise partnership terms
On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they have signed a non-binding agreement to revise their partnership, marking the latest development in a relationship that has grown increasingly complex as both companies compete for customers in the AI market and seek new partnerships for growing infrastructure needs. “Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non-binding memorandum of...
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35 percent of VMware workloads expected to migrate elsewhere by 2028
VMware will lose a significant chunk of business over the next three years, according to Gartner research VP Julia Palmer. Of course, some organizations have already abandoned VMware or are plotting partial or total migrations. Broadcom acquired the virtualization business in November 2023 and made sweeping changes that alienated many customers. The biggest concerns have...
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Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Shooting Spread Rapidly on Social Media
First posted to X, they amassed millions of views on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and Telegram within hours.
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OpenAI Signs $300 Billion Data Center Pact With Tech Giant Oracle
The funding covers more than half of the A.I. data centers that OpenAI plans to build in the U.S. over the next several years.
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Senators Demand Answers From Mark Zuckerberg on WhatsApp Security
Three Republican senators sent a letter to Meta’s chief executive on Wednesday asking him to respond to whistle-blower allegations over security flaws.
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Senator blasts Microsoft for making default Windows vulnerable to “Kerberoasting”
A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity negligence,” citing the company’s continued use of an obsolete and vulnerable form of encryption that Windows uses by default. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D–Ore.) said an investigation his office conducted into...
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Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage
On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic’s main services simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that...