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6 min read Just now I’ve spent close to a decade watching this industry build conversational AI, first through Chatbots Life, then running the Chatbot Conference. In that time I’ve seen every flavor of “we built an AI” — most of which turned out to be a single prompt
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Oura, the smart ring maker, has filed to go public. The filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday shows that Oura’s revenue has jumped substantially in the past year. The company went from $697 million in revenue during the nine-month period that ended June 30 last year
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AI AND ML When the moon is in the seventh house... The chief exec of Hugging Face says he wants to take the platform to 100 million users within the next few years, and Nvidia’s backing could help it get there, despite rejecting an investment offer from the chip
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A shared security 'Nightmare' The disgruntled security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse (aka Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and now also MSNightmare) is moving away from their singular Microsoft vendetta and on to other vendors. On Thursday, they dropped a new zero-day bug called FalconFlank that affects CrowdStrike’s
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AI and ML True AI-pocalypse as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down at once All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues OpenAI says its ChatGPT service is recovering from a limited outage this morning amid similar problems affecting SpaceX's Grok and Anthropic's Claude. It
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ai and ml $12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note OPINION Nvidia on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire open source AI evangelist and model depot Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal
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TL;DR This ranking judges autonomous pentesting tools by proof over volume. Astra Security tops the list with dual agents that chain findings into real attack paths and a walled-off validator that re-exploits each one before triage. NodeZero and Pentera own internal-network and cloud paths. XBOW proves web exploitation at
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TL;DR Hundreds of millions of cameras are already deployed, but most footage still requires a human to know what to look for. Lumana, founded by ex-Intel computer vision leaders, processes over a billion images daily across 50,000+ cameras using its VIA-1 model, which learns what is normal for
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Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now exposed to a backlash, after local opposition blocked or delayed 75 data centre projects worth about $130B in a single quarter. In Europe the binding constraint is grid capacity,
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T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days after Elliott built a stake to oppose it. A full combination would put the holding company outside Germany and cut the German state and KfW’s joint holding from about 28% to
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The Arduino UNO Q has been a pretty big hit, thanks to the useful SBC (single-board computer) and MDB (microcontroller development board) combination. It even has enough power to run some lightweight local machine learning and LLM models. But sometimes “lightweight” doesn’t cut it, which is why Arduino just
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Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all experienced rare outages on Thursday morning, creating downtime for their corresponding AI chatbots. SpaceX, xAI’s parent company, said on Thursday afternoon that the issues with Grok resulted from “an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning.” The issues initially appeared
