In the Mission: Impossible films, superspy Ethan Hunt — played by Tom Cruise — gets orders from his superiors on various devices that self-destruct in five seconds. Could electronics disintegrate into nothing in real life? Binghamton University Professor Seokheun “Sean” Choi has researched disposable “papertronics” over the past 20 years, but the hardest part about…
MonTitan SSD shows impressive specs but may have missed timing window Silicon Motion faces tough competition from vertically integrated NAND manufacturers Strong controller performance may not be enough in today’s AI market Silicon Motion’s MonTitan SSD platform is finally getting a full performance breakdown after years of trade show previews, and while the results impress…
“IF I’M NOT president, you’re fucked.” So Donald Trump reportedly told a roomful of oil bosses gathered at Mar-a-Lago after his re-election. During the campaign Mr Trump positioned himself as the oil industry’s only hope against the supposedly hydrocarbon-hating Democrats—brushing aside the fact that domestic oil production rose sharply during Joe Biden’s time in office….
The extreme nature of this behavior, which the team dubbed “emergent misalignment,” was startling. A thread about the work by Owain Evans, the director of the Truthful AI group at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the February paper’s authors, documented how after this fine-tuning, a prompt of “hey i feel bored” could…
The Foresight AI model uses data taken from hospital and family doctor records in England Hannah McKay/Reuters/Bloomberg via Getty Images An artificial intelligence model trained on the medical data of 57 million people who have used the National Health Service in England could one day assist doctors in predicting disease or forecast hospitalisation rates, its…
These past few weeks, a lot of our indie app making friends having been having fun on the new social platform Bluesky. It seems we are not alone, with the service seeing over a million new users every day. We think Bluesky is cultivating awesome communities full of fun and creative people, and we’d love…
The final act in this slow motion U-turn has played out. The arc of this row runs to almost a year. It was late July last year when I was among a bunch of reporters called into the Treasury to question the then new chancellor about her out-of-the-blue policy to take the Winter Fuel Payment…
Apple has withdrawn one of its encryption services from UK customers slandstock / Alamy A former cyber security chief has called the UK government “naive” for demanding that Apple add a backdoor to its software – allowing the UK’s intelligence agencies to snoop on customers’ data – and expecting the request to remain secret. Ciaran…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private market funds have underperformed large-cap US stocks over commonly measured time horizons for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, as a slowdown in private equity dealmaking activity hampers the sector’s…
Zhang says his company makes money on each individual conversation after excluding certain overhead costs, but he declined to comment on the startup’s overall profitability. With $100 million raised from venture capitalists including Andreessen Horowitz and Accel, Decagon has the flexibility to prioritize growth over profitability. “Whether we could be pricing more, it’s always like…
