Monthly Archives: January 2025

A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It — Yet

The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.

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How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google

The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

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Hackers found a way to remotely unlock, start, and track millions of Subarus

As long as employees have access to such data, that information is vulnerable to evolving methods of hacking. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’

Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that a “new paradigm of AI architectures” will emerge in the next three to five years, going far beyond the capabilities of existing AI systems. LeCun also predicted that the coming years could … Continue reading

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GhostGPT: Uncensored Chatbot Used by Cyber Criminals for Malware Creation, Scams

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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Your Personal Note-Taking Assistant Is Just $39.99 for Life

Record, transcribe, summarize, and keep all your notes organized with this powerful app for Apple devices.

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Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind

A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like … Continue reading

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Snap launches a new way to reward AR creators, rolls out student pricing for Spectacles

Snap announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new “Challenge Tags” rewards program for AR developers to win cash prizes for submitting Lenses. The company also announced that it’s launching educational pricing and a student discount for Spectacles, its developer-focused … Continue reading

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Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers

This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation.

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ChatGPT down as thousands report issues worldwide

It comes a day after owner OpenAI announced a massive investment in artificial intelligence (AI).

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