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Meta said it would cut 10% of it employees while Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement to about 7% of workersMeta and Microsoft are trimming their workforces by thousands as they make heavy investments in AI and executives claim that the technology is meeting their companies’ productivity needs.Meta told staff on Thursday that on 20 May […]
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A Palantir post citing CEO Alex Karp’s book called for mandatory military service and closer ties between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon while criticizing “hollow pluralism” and warning of a new AI arms race. But Palantir is just one of the tech companies blurring the lines between Silicon Valley and Washington – while growing too
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Tech can scale cyber-attacks and defences alike, raising questions about private power, public risk and the future of a shared internetAnthropic announced its latest AI model, Claude Mythos, this month but said it would not be released publicly, because it turns computers into crime scenes. The company claimed that it could find previously unknown “zero-day”
Britain’s cybersecurity agency says companies must step up vigilance to prevent espionage attacksBusiness live – latest updatesBritish businesses are being urged to step up their vigilance against a China-linked hacking ploy that uses everyday devices for espionage.The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and agencies in nine other countries have warned of persistent attempts by
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Analyst who worked on Internet Watch Foundation report says content exists ‘across all social media platforms’ and is ‘very easy’ to findThe number of commercial child sexual abuse websites has doubled in a year as experts say that criminal gangs are making “huge profits” from online sexual exploitation.According to data collected by the Internet Watch
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Most AI agents today have a fundamental amnesia problem. Deploy one to browse the web, resolve GitHub issues, or navigate a shopping platform, and it approaches every single task as if it has never seen anything like it before. No matter how many times it has stumbled on the same type of problem, it repeats
Figures fail to significantly buoy stock as firm admits ‘significant effort and hard work’ needed to achieve goalsTesla reported its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, disclosing some better-than-expected results but faltering in some key areas. The report failed to significantly buoy Tesla’s stock, which has limped along this year while its CEO, Elon Musk, has tried
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We’re being sold a world where there’s no room for reflection or spontaneity. This is the Black Mirror stage of capitalismHow fast do you have to strike a match to get it to light? Not the chemistry of the ignition, but the actual speed, in metres per second, that the little piece of wood and
Xiaomi MiMo team publicly released two new models: MiMo-V2.5-Pro and MiMo-V2.5. The benchmarks, combined with some genuinely striking real-world task demos, make a compelling case that open agentic AI is catching up to the frontier faster than most expected. Both models are available immediately via API, and priced competitively. What is an Agentic Model, and
