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Apple dethrones Nvidia to regain title of world’s most valuable company

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Shift in the pecking order illustrates that investors are reassessing the outlook for artificial intelligenceApple overtook Nvidia on Friday to become the world’s most valuable company, reshuffling the top ranks of tech heavyweights as investors reassess the outlook for artificial intelligence.Apple was last valued at $4.88tn as ⁠its shares held steady, while Nvidia ⁠was roughly […]

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Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?

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Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obviousImagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar – or even the person walking by you in the street – wasn’t secretly recording you. It sounds like something

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‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?

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Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacyAs facial recognition technology is rolled out across Britain’s public spaces, a new generation of designers say privacy could be the next big fashion trend.Companies have started incorporating “adversarial patterns” in

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3 Embed: An Open Embedding Collection Whose 8B Checkpoint Ranks #1 on RTEB

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Embedding models decide which passages an agent ever sees. NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Embed model to work on that layer. It targets production-scale RAG, agentic retrieval, code retrieval, and agent memory. What is Nemotron 3 Embed? The model collection includes three open checkpoints. Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 is the accuracy-first option. Nemotron-3-Embed-1B-BF16 carries the same design into a

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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review

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BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet(NMC)Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial intelligence are among the subjects of Laidlow’s ambitious orchestral worksRobert Laidlow is as at home in the realms of science and technology as he is in the world of classical music. As this NMC debut album demonstrates, his intricate, wildly imaginative work is eminently approachable,

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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI – podcast

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Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference?By Robert P Baird. Read by Simon DarwenRead the text version hereSupport the Guardian today: theguardian.com/longreadpod Continue reading…

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Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3: A 2.8 Trillion Parameter Open MoE Model With Kimi Delta Attention and 1M Context

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Moonshot AI just released Kimi K3. It is a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with native vision and a 1-million-token context window. Moonshot calls it the world’s first open 3T-class model. What is Kimi K3? Kimi K3 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model built on two architectural updates. Those are Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) and Attention Residuals (AttnRes).

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Thousands of Google workers demand layoff protections amid AI boom in petition to CEO

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The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout optionsGoogle workers on Thursday delivered a petition calling for layoff protections as tech giants continue to slash their workforces while pouring billions into AI.“Make no mistake: this is a company that is enjoying massive, unprecedented success,” Parul Koul,

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OpenAI Details GPT-Red: An Internal Automated Red-Teaming Model That Beat Human Red-Teamers 84% To 13% On Prompt Injection

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This week, OpenAI published details of GPT-Red, an internal-only automated red-teaming model. Its job is to attack OpenAI’s own models and find prompt injection vulnerabilities. OpenAI gives two reasons. Human red-teaming is time-intensive and does not scale. Commonly used robustness evaluations are already saturated by its latest models. Meanwhile, the attack surface grows. Agents read

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Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

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The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly

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