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A maelstrom over AI safety kicked off earlier this week when Jacob Coxon resigned from the company, saying employees “earnestly believe it [AI] could kill us all by the end of the decade.” Concerns over the technology began to escalate earlier this year with the release of advanced models such
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Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Ikea’s new Badkruka wireless Bluetooth speaker is now available in the US for $59.99. It’s reminiscent of
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* Grand Theft Auto 6 has already scooped up some Guinness World Records * The Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition 2027 recognizes a GTA 6 trailer as the most-viewed game trailer in 24 hours * It's expected to break more records at launch, with the team keeping a "close
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Why U.S. Carriers and Distributors Should Care Now: Moving from Product Configuration to Production at AI Speed AI is changing the way insurers, distributors, and IMOs innovate, configure, test, and release their products. In an industry where there is constant change to the requirements for the products, the means
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Electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI) is a powerful technique for testing the security of electronic devices, but doing it properly can require some fairly specialized equipment. GlitchCaster, an open source hardware project developed by Diffused Tactics, aims to make the process more accessible with a relatively inexpensive EMFI tool that can
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I’m having deja vu after Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event, which introduced the company’s first-ever folding phone, the iPhone Duo. It’s on two levels: Back in 2020, Microsoft introduced its take on a folding phone, also called the Duo. I remember talking about it with Panos
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Save $80: Cleaning your own floors should be a thing of the past, and with Roborock’s Q7 M5 robot vacuum and mop $80 off right now at Amazon, it soon will be. This model normally sells for around $230, so this is an $80 discount. But be warned, Amazon
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London startup HelmGuard has raised $7.3m in seed funding. It uses AI agents to check how companies manage security and compliance. Infinity Ventures and Frontline co-led the round, the company said in its funding announcement on 9 September. FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital and Entrepreneurs First also invested. John
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Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 September. They said French President Emmanuel Macron announced
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“At this point, I won’t go as far as a moratorium,” Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the House of Commons on 9 September, when a Labour MP asked him to back a pause on new data centres. Jacob Reid reported the exchange for Bloomberg. On the same day, the
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Oracle told investors this week that it is sitting on $664bn of work it has agreed to do and has not yet done. Accountants call this remaining performance obligations, which is a dense way of saying that customers have signed contracts, the money is promised, and Oracle now has to
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Anthropic has built a model of how AI might reshape the US economy by 2030. Its most extreme case describes an economy roughly a third larger than it would otherwise be. That same case carries knowledge-work unemployment near 18 percent. The company published the model on 10 September as an
