Collaborate Disseminate
Despite AI’s progress in building complex software, the ubiquitous PDF remains something of a grand challenge — a format Adobe developed in the early 1990s to preserve the precise visual appearance of documents. PDFs consist of character codes, coordi… Continue reading ‘How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?’
U.S. artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic said three Chinese AI companies set up more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts with its Claude AI model to help their own systems catch up. From a report: The three companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and Mini… Continue reading Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
The first fiber-optic cable ever laid across an ocean — TAT-8, a nearly 6,000-kilometer line between the United States, United Kingdom, and France that carried its first traffic on December 14, 1988 — is now being pulled off the Atlantic seabed after… Continue reading Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible
An anonymous reader shares a report: PayPal, the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the matter.
The San Jose, Calif… Continue reading PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump
Climate scientists trying to predict how much hotter the planet will get have long grappled with a surprisingly stubborn problem — clouds, which both reflect sunlight and trap heat, account for more than half the variation between climate predictions … Continue reading Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds
A study published last week in PNAS found that people who regularly cause problems or make life difficult — whom the researchers call “hasslers” — are associated with measurably faster biological aging in those around them, at a rate of roughly 1.5% … Continue reading Stressful People in Your Life Could Be Adding Months To Your Biological Age
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI’s environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT’s water consumption as “totally fake” and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI’s energy use is to compare it against huma… Continue reading Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too
The narrative that AI spending has been singlehandedly propping up the U.S. economy — a claim that captivated Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington over the past year — is facing serious pushback from economists [non-paywalled source] at Goldman… Continue reading Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Calculate AI’s Contribution To U.S. Growth May Be Basically Zero
Microsoft pulled a year-old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Harry Potter books from a Kaggle dataset — incorrectly marked as public domain — and use them to train AI model… Continue reading Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books
OpenAI faces four fundamental strategic problems that no amount of fundraising or capex announcements can paper over, according to analyst Benedict Evans: it has no unique technology, its enormous user base is shallow and fragile, incumbents like Googl… Continue reading OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns