Google has integrated AI deeply across its operations, with over 25% of its new code generated by AI. CEO Sundar Pichai announced the milestone during the company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call. AI is helping Google make money as well. Alphabet reported $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter, with Read more…
Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Friday… powered by insatiable demand for its specialized artificial intelligence chips. Nvidia’s stock market value briefly touched $3.53 trillion, slightly above Apple’s $3.52 trillion, LSEG data showed… In June, Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company before it was Read more…
Ahead of the debut of Apple’s private AI cloud next week, dubbed Private Cloud Compute, the technology giant says it will pay security researchers up to $1 million to find vulnerabilities that can compromise the security of its private AI cloud. In a post on Apple’s security blog, the company Read more…
Anthropic has released an upgraded version of its AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet and announced a new model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, alongside a public beta feature enabling AI to operate computers like humans. The enhanced Sonnet model improved its coding capabilities, scoring 49% on the SWEbench Verified benchmark, surpassing OpenAI Read more…
EVs are still winning. But they haven’t won yet; only 4% of the global passenger car fleet, 23% of the bus fleet, and less than 1% of delivery trucks are electrified. But at this point I think the writing is on the wall. The phenomenon of a superior technology displacing Read more…
A principal security software engineer at Microsoft described how they use their Azure cloud platform “to hunt phishers at scale,” in a talk at the information security conference BSides Exeter. Calling himself Microsoft’s “Head of Deception.” Ross Bevington described how they’d created a hybrid high interaction honeypot” on the now Read more…
A technology pioneered by Benjamin Franklin is being revived to build more efficient electric motors, an effort in its nascent stage that has the potential to be massive. A handful of scientists and engineers — armed with materials and techniques unimaginable in the 1700s — are creating modern versions of Read more…