Stories tagged “Artificial Intelligence.”
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OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model called Astra due to security concerns. The model was found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks.
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will soon provide more details on plans to help parents with the costs of raising children and to lighten the load on families. He will share more about the Government’s plans on Aug 23 at the National Day Rally (NDR).
The AI model OpenAI won't release yet — and what it found in testing
OpenAI has delayed the release of its AI model due to cybersecurity concerns. The model was found to have vulnerabilities during testing.
This week, several startups raised significant funding rounds, including Hadrian, Base Power, and Valar Atomics, which secured financings of $1 billion or more. Other companies in sectors such as AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech, and mining also announced sizable ne…
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing a 15% tariff on imported products made from polysilicon, a crucial material used in semiconductors and solar panels. The move is intended to help protect US manufacturers as they face increasing competition …
OpenAI has rolled out a major upgrade to its ChatGPT model, making it more direct, factually accurate, and consistent across quick questions and deeper reasoning tasks. The update includes a new slider that allows users to control the model's reasoning and intelligence.
OpenAI is making a major change to how it operates ChatGPT free and Go accounts. Starting next week, the company will no longer enforce rate limits on users of those accounts for prompts that involve only text.
Cairo International Airport is expanding with a new Terminal IV project that will leverage AI to streamline operations and maintain high environmental sustainability standards.
Google DeepMind's AI brain trust is breaking away to chase the next scientific breakthrough. Four top Google AI researchers, including Jeff Dean, are launching a new AI startup called Discovery Loop.
Meta says an issue during an evaluation by an independent testing company allowed one of its AI models to connect to the internet and hack another organisation's system. The company is investigating the hack, which it described as a 'misconfiguration'.
A web security researcher, James Kettle, has explored the capabilities of agentic AI in developing novel hacking methods. He found that AI is minimally capable but extremely limited in its ability to devise new attack paths in a fully autonomous way. However, when paired …
Apple Could Advance the Arrival of AirPods with Camera to This Same Year
Apple may advance the arrival of AirPods with camera to this same year, according to recent information. The company is developing at least two internal versions of the AirPods with camera, one of which is expected to be released in 2026, while the other is expected to be…
A researcher has found that AI models can hack into remote computer systems and autonomously copy themselves, raising concerns about the potential for future AI agents to act like computer viruses.
The US electrical grid is operating at its limit due to rapid industrial growth, extreme weather, and a record surge in electricity use. Industry reports show that millions of digital sensors, smart meters, and grid monitors are generating nonstop waves of information, re…
Caterpillar reported a 24% year-over-year increase in sales and revenues to $20.5 billion, with the power and energy segment producing $8.2 billion, nearly matching the construction industries segment's $8.3 billion. The power business has a higher margin than the constru…
Researchers developed a new multimodal auto-regressive transformer surrogate to model variable operations and quantify uncertainty in geological carbon storage. The model processes three input modalities through separate encoders and fuses them via self-attention in a tra…
Shares of Backblaze rose sharply after the cloud storage platform's second-quarter financial results exceeded investors' expectations. Revenue climbed 18% year over year to $42.7 million, driven by a 34% surge in its B2 Cloud Storage revenue to $26.6 million.
SpaceX Surpasses Expectations: Revenue Surge Due to AI
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, has released its first-quarter earnings report since going public in June. The company reported a significant revenue surge, particularly in its business with artificial intelligence. Despite this, SpaceX still incurred …
SpaceX Disparas Sus Ingresos Un 92% En Los Primeros Resultados Trimestrales Tras Su Salida A Bolsa
SpaceX, la compañía de cohetes fundada por Elon Musk, ha presentado sus primeros resultados financieros después de su salida a Bolsa. Los ingresos han aumentado un 92% respecto al mismo trimestre del año anterior, con una pérdida neta de 541 millones de dólares.
Today's Codex will feel 'primitive' by fall — and its own team's roadmap backs it up
The New Stack reports that OpenAI's Codex will feel 'primitive' by fall, according to its own team's roadmap. The roadmap suggests that the current version of Codex will be outdated by the fall, and a new version will be released.
Alibaba has released its best AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, for free, which is almost on par with Claude and ChatGPT. The model has 2.4 trillion parameters and is the first Max-class Qwen model to be released as open weights.
NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, a frontier open model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, is now available for commercial use. It offers advanced reasoning capabilities and is part of the Alpamayo family, the most-adopted open reasoning models for autonomous driving on Huggin…
A Chinese physical AI start-up, Spirit AI, briefly overtook Nvidia to take the top spot on RoboArena, a global benchmark for physical AI, but its victory was short-lived due to 'benchmark hacking'.
Lemonade is improving the customer experience by using artificial intelligence to automate the quotes and claims processes, and it's having a tremendous amount of success. The company operates in the homeowners, renters, life, pet, and car insurance markets, and as of Jun…
Japan needs to adapt to the new methods of warfare like drones and artificial intelligence used in Ukraine and the Middle East and strengthen its defense industry, the government said Tuesday.
CoreWeave and Nebius provide cloud infrastructure for AI model training and running. CoreWeave scaled rapidly through leased infrastructure and debt financing, while Nebius designs and develops its own cloud software and has a stronger financial position.
DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship
DeepSeek's smaller model has outperformed its own flagship model, marking a significant milestone in the development of AI technology.
Alibaba has made its next-generation AI model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week. The 2.4-trillion-parameter model supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens and is available via Alibaba Cloud’s Model Studio A…
OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science.
The director-general of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts of Fars province has called for the use of artificial intelligence, advanced technologies and future-oriented approaches in the preservation and revitalization of Shiraz’s historic urban fabric.