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The US Justice Department has quietly rewritten a press release that said Chinese hackers had claimed victims across the Senate, the Federal Reserve, NASA and half a dozen other federal bodies. The revised version says those organisations were targets, and that only some were actually compromised, as Reuters reported. The
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Meta has become one of Anthropic’s largest customers, at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg has been attacking the company in public. At one point this year Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10bn a year on Anthropic’s models, The New York Times reported,
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A patient in England was told they had demyelination, the nerve damage that underlies conditions including multiple sclerosis. The test result had actually read “null demyelination”, and an AI scribe had dropped the word that reversed the meaning. That case appears in a warning from Healthwatch England, the statutory patient
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OpenAI has begun letting some of its largest customers pay only when its AI actually completes the job. Kevin McLaughlin and Amir Efrati reported the change to The Information, giving the example of a customer support interaction handled end-to-end. The arrangement is limited to select major accounts rather than offered
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Europe is buying another AI supercomputer, and this one is headed to Kajaani in northern Finland. LUMI-AI is a €387.8 million system, roughly $449 million, that will be built by Bull, the French supercomputer maker that the French state bought outright five months ago. The order is the sixth
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The numbers circulating through fintech right now are hard to ignore. Almost 10,000 jobs have been cut across the global sector in 2026 so far. PayPal is eliminating roughly 20% of its workforce. Block has shrunk to fewer than 6,000 employees, and Coinbase cut 14% of its headcount.
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A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally
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The answer will have big implications for the investment boom Prefer HTon Google How software engineers in Silicon Valley spend their days has changed dramatically over the past few years. The output is still the same: reams of code. But instead of sitting and typing, they whisper into microphones. Their
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These days everybody is hiring or training Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). For example, a few weeks ago AWS told diginomica all about its approach in this area. Twenty years ago, the model for using FDEs was devised by Palantir, whose defense clients consultant/engineers needed to be deployed in the
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Save $71: The Withings ScanWatch 2 is down to $299 at Amazon, $20 above its lowest price, making it a tempting pick if you want a smartwatch that keeps tabs on your sleep without adding to your monthly subscription bills. It is also CNET’s favorite sleep-tracking watch without a
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Berlin, the capital city of Germany, on Friday said it would not pay the extortion group that hacked into its network and stole large amounts of data earlier this month. The incident was discovered on August 14 and impacted the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection, and Environment. To
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Honestly, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ has changed what I believed a handheld console is capable of. The Intel Arc G3 Extreme chipset it’s packing offers astounding performance, delivering fantastically smooth frame-rates for modern games like Doom: The Dark Ages and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. That screen is
