Archive: September 2024

Three foreign nationals have been charged with using artificial intelligence to impersonate corporate executives and attorneys at major law firms in a scheme that allegedly stole at least $129 million from hospitals, banks, and other businesses. According to an indictment unsealed Thursday in the Southern District of New York, employees were tricked into wiring money for confidential deals that did not exist. Prosecutors say the operation targeted thousand

Megaspeed, a Singapore-based AI infrastructure company, had reportedly purchased $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips over the last two years. The U.S. and Singapore have both previously investigated Megaspeed over suspicions that the firm was illegally sharing chips with China. The U.S. and China are embroiled in a fierce technological arms race to build the most advanced AI infrastructure, which could shape each country’s economic future, military prowess, and c

It has emerged that Japan Kentucky Fried Chicken has been using generative AI to create some of its product images. On November 10, in an interview with ITmedia NEWS, the company’s public relations department said that generative AI is sometimes used when creating product images for trial-sale menu items such as floats. Post that attracted attention Since around the 6th, there has been discussion on X over whether the product images for “Cola Float” and “M

PC peripheral manufacturer Buffalo (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo) announced that it would continue selling its Blu-ray Disc drives for a while because it had been able to “procure additional materials,” after having previously announced that sales of the drives would end in July. The company said that sales will be limited to remaining stock once production using the additional materials ends, and that there is no change in its plans to discontinue sales in the med

This comes after the company said it reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue in June. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with Salesforce Ventures, 01 Advisors, Dell Technologies Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, a16z, Felicis, and others joining in. Arena previously announced a $150 million Series A in January at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation. At the time, its annualized revenue was $30 million, it said. So th

OpenAI sets new behavioral guidelines for AI models that have already proven hard to control Manuel Uth Oct 30, 2026 OpenAI has restructured its public behavior guidelines for AI models, the Model Spec, around five core values. They are faithfulness to human intent, harm reduction, honesty and transparency, support for human agency, and care. According to the updated spec, GPT models should now draw on memories and past conversations to figure out what use

A startling announcement went out earlier this week: Due to recently discovered vulnerabilities in the open source programming language PHP, website owners had to immediately patch their sites — or if they couldn’t update right away, they should take the sites down to be safe. On this week’s episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the significance of the PHP-ocalypse and whether we’ll see more incidents like th

By letting Claude connect directly to bank and credit card accounts, Anthropic is positioning its chatbot as a financial companion that can help people understand their spending and make sense of their money, rather than simply offering them generic advice. With the launch, Claude is playing catch-up to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which introduced similar personal finance tools in May that also let users connect their financial accounts and ask questions about every

@alibabacloud-saSplit Decision: 9 AI Judges, 2 AI Journalists, and a Verdict You Can Verify YourselfTutorialAIDevelopersQwenAI Hackathon0Posted on 2026-11-09An award-winning project from the Global AI Hackathon Series (hosted by Qwen Cloud), winner of the “Honor Award & Blog Article Award” Project Overview At first glance, this may sound like satire, but the premise is that it functions as civic technology: nine AI judges, each with a different judicial ph

@kameda05(Kenji Kameda)Precisely because it is the AI era, perhaps we need to deliberately adopt “inconvenient programming education”AIvibe codingassemblerCnew employee training0Posted at 2026-11-09 Who benefits now that AI writes programs? Recent advances in generative AI have been astounding, completely transforming the world of programming in just a few years. In the past, it was standard for programmers themselves to perform the entire sequence of work

Tenfold Capacity Expansion After Surge in Tencent Hy4 Invocations; No. 1 Among Open-Source Models in Agent Capabilities 2026-11-06 10:00:11 Source: QbitAI On November 5, Tencent announced that WorkBuddy had expanded tenfold in response to a surge in Hy4 invocations On November 5, Tencent announced that WorkBuddy had expanded tenfold in response to a surge in Hy4 invocations, in order to meet the experience and usage needs of more users. Meanwhile, driven b

We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months. Compared to 2012, it now takes 44 times less compute to train a neural network to the level of AlexNet (by contrast, Moore’s Law would yield an 11x cost improvement over this period). Our results suggest that for AI tasks with high levels of recent inv

The Atlantic is announcing a strategic content and product partnership with OpenAI, which positions The Atlantic as a premium news source within OpenAI. The Atlantic’s articles will be discoverable within OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, and as a partner, The Atlantic will help to shape how news is surfaced and presented in future real-time discovery products.