New tools may help fulfill CEO’s claim that agents will “join the workforce” in 2025. [[{“value”:” The AI industry is doing its best to will “agents”—pieces of AI-driven software that can perform multistep actions on your behalf—into reality. Several tech companies, including Google, have emphasized agentic features recently, and in January, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
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Countless digital documents hold valuable info, and the AI industry is attempting to set it free. [[{“value”:” For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a persistent problem: How to extract usable data from Portable Document Format (PDF) files. These digital documents serve as containers for everything from scientific research to government records, but …
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Silicon Valley may value imperfect virtual PhDs more than universities pay real ones. [[{“value”:” The AI industry has a new buzzword: “PhD-level AI.” According to a report from The Information, OpenAI may be planning to launch several specialized AI “agent” products including a $20,000 monthly tier focused on supporting “PhD-level research.” Other reportedly planned agents …
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Malware stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and more from infected machines. [[{“value”:” Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated “malvertising” campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said. The campaign began in December, when the attackers, who remain unknown, seeded websites with …
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New research challenges prevailing idea that AI needs massive datasets to solve problems. [[{“value”:” A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of examples. Their system tackles some types of abstract pattern-matching tasks using only the …
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Eleven11bot infects video recorders, with the largest concentration of them in the US. [[{“value”:” A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest denial-of-service attack ever seen, a security researcher inside Nokia said. The botnet, tracked under …
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Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity. [[{“value”:” For many people, coding is about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those precise actions repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s now possible for someone to describe a program in English and have …
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Sesame’s new AI voice model features uncanny imperfections, and it’s willing to act like an angry boss. [[{“value”:” In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of …
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Just one compromised VM can make all other VMs on that hypervisor sitting ducks. [[{“value”:” Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers’ networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday. The class of attack made possible by …
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Stanford researchers analyzed 305 million texts, revealing AI-writing trends. [[{“value”:” Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, experts have debated how widely AI language models would impact the world. A few years later, the picture is getting clear. According to new Stanford University-led research examining over 300 million text samples across multiple sectors, AI …
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