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AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
Hundreds of websites have been compromised as a lone hacker is reportedly catching up with the times.
DeepSeek is a powerful, popular and relatively inexpensive artificial intelligence model out of China.
Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal’s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed with containers. The results have not been independently checked.
“I think I have good news about the nature of neural networks.”
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the model GLM-5.3 poses a major cyberattack risk.
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money.
Ever since people first seriously contemplated giving machines an intelligence modeled on our own, there has never been any question that they would, like us, be able to say no. The sci-fi canon is full of stories of robotic disobedience. Most of these capers are, of course, cautionary.
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