US telecom giants AT&T and Verizon have secured their networks after being targeted by the China-linked Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group. The group, which has been linked to China, compromised the networks of several US phone and internet companies to gather intelligence on US citizens. While the scale of the breach is not yet known, AT&T…
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DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, has released an “open” AI model, DeepSeek V3, which has been found to misidentify itself as ChatGPT, a rival AI-powered chatbot platform. The model’s training data distribution has been questioned, with some speculating that it may have been trained on outputs from rival AI systems, potentially leading to hallucinations and…
Samsung is set to unveil its latest consumer electronics at CES 2025, focusing on AI-powered appliances, including a high-tech refrigerator. The event, scheduled for January 6, promises to showcase the company’s vision for a future where AI is integrated into everyday life. With its emphasis on smart home technology, Samsung is likely to make a…
Onyx Motorbikes, a brand that was left in shambles after its owner’s sudden death, has been revived by its original founder, Tim Seward. The company is selling a limited number of electric dirt bikes, and investors have backed the revival. However, creditors, including Oxygen Funding, still have outstanding debts that need to be resolved. Forecast…
Google’s Gemini AI is being compared to Anthropic’s Claude in secret testing, with contractors evaluating the accuracy of both models’ outputs. The contractors are tasked with rating the truthfulness and verbosity of each response, with some noticing that Claude’s safety settings are stricter than Gemini’s. The use of Claude in testing against Gemini raises questions…
A recent breakthrough in Wi-Fi technology has solved a long-standing problem for many homeowners. Eero’s Outdoor 7, a long-distance mesh unit, has successfully bridged the gap between two buildings, providing a reliable and seamless internet connection. This innovative solution has been tested and proven to be effective, making it a game-changer for those struggling with…
OpenAI has announced o3, its latest reasoning model, which is a significant improvement over its predecessor o1. o3 is a model family that includes o3 and o3-mini, a smaller, distilled model fine-tuned for particular tasks. OpenAI claims that o3 approaches Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in certain conditions, but this achievement is still a subject of…
Google has released an experimental reasoning AI model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, which is designed to tackle complex problems in fields such as programming, math, and physics. The model is still in its early stages and requires significant computing power to run, but it has shown promising results in handling challenging puzzles involving visual…
GitHub, a Microsoft-owned platform, has announced a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool. The free version will be available to all users, with limitations on usage, and will also ship by default with Microsoft’s popular VS Code editor. This move aims to make AI coding tools more accessible to developers…
Google DeepMind, the AI research lab of Google, has announced Veo 2, a next-generation video-generating AI model that can create two-minute-plus clips in resolutions up to 4k. This model surpasses OpenAI’s Sora in terms of resolution and duration, and is expected to be available on Google’s Vertex AI developer platform soon. Veo 2 has improved…