You wouldn’t know it from the hype, but the results fail to impress. Google on Wednesday revealed five recent malware samples that were built using generative AI. The end results of each one were far below par with professional malware development, a finding that shows that vibe coding of…
Deal will provide access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips that power ChatGPT. On Monday, OpenAI announced it has signed a seven-year, $38 billion deal to buy cloud services from Amazon Web Services to power products like ChatGPT and Sora. It’s the company’s first big computing deal after…
Both vulnerabilities are being exploited in wide-scale operations. Two Windows vulnerabilities—one a zero-day that has been known to attackers since 2017 and the other a critical flaw that Microsoft initially tried and failed to patch recently—are under active exploitation in widespread attacks targeting a swath of the Internet, researchers…
It could be “one of the biggest IPOs of all time,” according to Reuters. On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters during a livestream that going public “is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we’ll have.” Now sources familiar with the matter say…
AI companion app faces legal and regulatory pressure over child safety concerns. On Wednesday, Character.AI announced it will bar anyone under the age of 18 from open-ended chats with its AI characters starting on November 25, implementing one of the most restrictive age policies yet among AI chatbot platforms.…
Packages downloaded from NPM can fetch dependancies from untrusted sites. Attackers are exploiting a major weakness that has allowed them access to the NPM code repository with more than 100 credential-stealing packages since August, mostly without detection. The finding, laid out Wednesday by security firm Koi, brings attention to…
“I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble,” says Huang after announcing $500B in orders. On Wednesday, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, fresh on the heels of a GTC conference keynote in Washington, DC, where CEO Jensen Huang announced $500…
On-chip TEEs withstand rooted OSes but fall instantly to cheap physical attacks. Trusted execution environments, or TEEs, are everywhere—in blockchain architectures, virtually every cloud service, and computing involving AI, finance, and defense contractors. It’s hard to overstate the reliance that entire industries have on three TEEs in particular: Confidential…
Sensitive chats are rare but significant given the large user base. An AI language model like the kind that powers ChatGPT is a gigantic statistical web of data relationships. You give it a prompt (such as a question), and it provides a response that is statistically related and hopefully…
New deal extends Microsoft IP rights until 2032 or until AGI arrives. On Monday, Microsoft and OpenAI announced a revised partnership agreement that introduces an independent expert panel to verify when OpenAI achieves so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI), a determination that will trigger major shifts in how the companies…
