The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become the latest financial heavyweight to warn that the AI spending frenzy could end in tears, with consequences extending well beyond the tech sector. In its latest Global Financial Stability Report, published on Tuesday,...

Microsoft has lifted the lid on the next generation of its Azure Maia custom AI chips, saying it will usher in a new phase of its compute infrastructure where everything is closely integrated to meet the demands of agentic inference. The Redmond giant says its Azure...

Cyberattacks on supermarket refrigeration systems reportedly pushed temperatures as high as 50°C (122°F), affecting hundreds of stores in France and forcing retailers to discard food. Major supermarkets such as Carrefour, Coopérative U, Intermarché, Monoprix, and more...

NetBSD seems to be thriving of late: as the Linux world goes pro-AI, some of the AI-averse are turning to this explicitly AI-free project. The NetBSD project’s Mastodon feed reports that it received a record 120 donations last month, and it has far exceeded its...

In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of letting you simulate and debug your design before sending it to the actual chip. However, as...

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Experiments show cheap TV boxes can run capable AI models, and small models may soon be able to spread across such devices on their own. The post Small AI Models Could Soon Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Controversial chatbot platform Character.ai is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the wake of mounting legal challenges and runaway operating costs, the four-year-old startup said in a surprise announcement on Monday. The move comes as the Menlo Park,...

Family estrangement isn’t just a private family problem anymore. It’s become a widely discussed social phenomenon. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, reports and polls across the United States have pointed to a rise in adults cutting ties with relatives.  The subject is...

Cybersecurity company Trellix today launched Trellix Wise for Private Cloud to let enterprises run its artificial intelligence engine for security operations entirely inside their own environments. The new release targets the main reasons large organizations have held...

American Express is introducing a new framework designed to ensure AI agents only make purchases their users have authorized, potentially preventing costly mistakes and disputes as AI-powered shopping grows.