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AI labs on the path to superintelligent systems are beginning to realize they may have to take a detour. According to several AI investors, founders, and CEOs who spoke to TechCrunch, the “laws of AI scaling” — the techniques and expectations labs have been using to improve the power of their models over the past five years — are: The company is currently showing signs of declining profits. Their sentiment reflects recent reports that model improvements within major AI labs are slower than in the past. Everyone agrees that you can't pre-train large language models while using more compute and…

London-based financial software company Finastra, which serves most of the world's top banks, says it is investigating a data breach after hackers claimed to have compromised its internal file transfer platform. I admitted it. In a statement given to TechCrunch, Finastra spokesperson Sofia Romano said the fintech giant announced on Nov. It admitted that it had detected “suspicious activity.” News of the breach was first reported by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, but someone sold stolen files purportedly belonging to Finastra's largest banking customers on a known cybercrime forum. It was announced after claiming that In a forum post that has…

Dual-use drone startup Tekever has raised €70 million ($74 million) for product development and expansion into new markets, particularly the United States. The news is part of a trend of small technology-driven startups moving into markets typically dominated by large “defense primes.” It also shows that unmanned drones are becoming much more sophisticated, due in part to the pace of development caused by the Ukraine war. Just last month, another European drone startup, Origin, raised funding for a precision attack drone system currently operating in the country. Tekever's funding round comes from Scottish investment firm Baillie Gifford & Company (which…

The UK no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50, according to new data from the Top500 project, which ranks the world's 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems. Currently, the country's national supercomputer system, Archer2, is scheduled to reach the end of its useful life in 2026. According to the latest statistics, the system currently ranks 62nd in the world, down from 49th place in June and 38th place last November. The downturn comes shortly after the New Labor government shelved the previous government's plans to invest £800 million (about $1 billion) in a new “exascale” supercomputer at the…

The UK government has not ruled out further tightening existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style social media ban for children under 16, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has said. Back in the summer, the government may tighten laws on tech platforms following riots believed to have been fueled by online disinformation following the death of three girls in a knife attack. he warned. It has since emerged that some of those charged in the riot were minors, raising concerns about the influence of social media on sensitive and developing minds. Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Today program on Wednesday,…

The UK government has not ruled out further tightening existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has said. Back in the summer, the government warned it could tighten laws on tech platforms following riots believed to have been fueled by online disinformation following a knife attack that left three girls dead. did. It has since emerged that some of those charged in the riot were minors, raising concerns about the influence of social media on sensitive and developing minds. Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Today program on Wednesday, Mr Kyle…

OpenAI envisions teachers using AI-powered tools to create lesson plans and interactive tutorials for students. But some educators are wary of the technology and its potential for failure. Today, OpenAI released a free online course designed to help K-12 teachers learn how to bring ChatGPT, the company's AI chatbot platform, into the classroom. Created in collaboration with Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization with which OpenAI has an active partnership, the one-hour, nine-module program covers the fundamentals of AI and its educational applications. OpenAI says the course has already been implemented in “dozens” of schools, including the Agua Fria School…

Bring Capital, one of the more prolific and well-connected seed VC firms, has secured an additional $270 million for its new fourth flagship fund. Bling general partner Kyle Lui told TechCrunch that about half of these new millions will go toward opportunity funding, which is money set aside to make additional investments in winners. It is said that it will be done. Bling was founded in 2018 by Ben Ling, a former general partner at Khosla Ventures who backed companies like GitLab and Webflow. He earned his Valley Street credentials through executive positions at Google, YouTube, and Facebook. He has…

Apple on Tuesday released a security update “recommended for all users” after fixing two security bugs used in active cyberattacks targeting Mac users. In a security advisory on its website, Apple said it was aware of two vulnerabilities that “may have been actively exploited on Intel-based Mac systems.” These bugs are considered “zero-day” vulnerabilities because they were unknown to Apple at the time they were exploited. To fix the bug, Apple released a software update for macOS and a fix for iPhones and iPads, including users running older iOS 17 software. It is not yet known who is behind the…

A quick note before you start your day. Think twice before uploading your personal medical data to an AI chatbot. People frequently rely on generative AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini to ask questions about medical concerns and better understand their health conditions. For example, some people rely on questionable apps that use AI to determine if a person's genitals are free of disease. And most recently, since October, users of social media site Health data is a special category with federal protections, and in most cases, only you can choose to avoid it. But just because you…