Artificial Intelligence (AI)

an ai wrote 300 virus genomes from scratch sixteen actually came alive Three hundred synthetic genomes were loaded into E. coli. Sixteen emerged as functioning viruses.

An AI Wrote 300 Virus Genomes From Scratch. Sixteen Actually Came Alive

deepminds hurricane model outran the forecasters and even its builders cant explain why Five days out from landfall, an AI model put 80 percent confidence on Hurricane Melissa striking Jamaica as a Category 5. Not Haiti. Not a weakened system. Jamaica, at the very top of the scale.

DeepMind’s hurricane model outran the forecasters — and even its builders can’t explain why

openai halts work on parts of astra citing cybersecurity capability concerns Firms quietly shelve products over security risks all the time. What they almost never do is announce it while the product is still unreleased and sitting in the lab.

OpenAI Halts Work on Parts of Astra, Citing Cybersecurity Capability Concerns

cybersecurity is being rebuilt by ai at frightening speed Click rates on phishing emails once hovered around 12 percent. Hand the same task to a language model and, in simulated environments, that figure jumps to 52 percent, according to security vendor Brightside, whose research also determined that 82 percent of phishing emails now involve AI at some stage.

Cybersecurity Is Being Rebuilt by AI at Frightening Speed

6700 findings in 55 hours bitcoins ai security sprint still cant say how many were real Bitcoin Red Team, an AI-assisted security campaign targeting Bitcoin projects, reports 6,700 findings across 425 projects during its first 55 hours. Of those, 1,029 carried a high or critical label.

6,700 findings in 55 hours: Bitcoin’s AI security sprint still can’t say how many were real

sk hynix pours 38 billion into two new dram and nand plants but chips wont ship until 2029 The very first cleanroom SK Hynix is funding today isn't scheduled to turn out a single chip before June 2029 at the earliest. Hold onto that date before treating any of this as a reprieve from the memory prices currently gutting PC builds.

SK Hynix Pours $38 Billion Into Two New DRAM and NAND Plants — But Chips Won’t Ship Until 2029

bytedances next model could be chinas biggest reportedly 10 trillion parameters The TikTok parent is pretraining a model of up to 10 trillion parameters, the Financial Times reports — a size that would hand ByteDance the largest AI system ever built in China, and by a margin of three to one.

ByteDance’s Next Model Could Be China’s Biggest — Reportedly 10 Trillion Parameters

a san francisco startup will pay you 50 to strap on a 4 pound helmet and let ai read your mind Back in 1908, a Columbia University psychiatry professor named Frederick Peterson informed a newspaper that he had built a machine capable of reading a person's thoughts. The apparatus consisted of a mirror and a lamp.

A San Francisco Startup Will Pay You $50 to Strap On a 4-Pound Helmet and Let AI Read Your Mind

openais ring shaped speaker reportedly lands at 300400 Picture a metal donut that talks back, has moving parts, and sits on your kitchen counter with a $300 to $400 sticker on it. That's how Bloomberg now characterizes OpenAI's hardware device — and the number is the detail that demands a second look.

OpenAI’s Ring-Shaped Speaker Reportedly Lands at $300–$400

anthropic starts building in house silicon for claude Anthropic wants control of the hardware underneath its models. The company has confirmed that it is assembling a "custom silicon team" tasked with designing chips for Claude — a path OpenAI, Google and Meta have already taken.

Anthropic Starts Building In-House Silicon for Claude