Andy Yen, the CEO of Proton, had a message for an employee in the company’s security Slack channel who urged the company to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in […]
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A new startup called &Truth is joining the race to automate formal verification, a painstaking process that uses math to prove software works as intended.
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Using AI for roles from executive assistants to chiefs of staff, companies are boasting about doing more with less, creating tension with their human workers On an average workday, Dhruv Amin chats with dozens of colleagues to get things done at his AI startup Anything. He might ask Gwen, his executive assistant, to schedule a
What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents? Read Post »
Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracy Send your questions to conversations@theguardian.com or join the discussion on Friday from 8am Aditya Chakrabortty is the
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Growth in India and Latin America builds on established operations in Eastern Europe and strengthens BlueCloud’s ability to deliver Snowflake and Data + AI solutions at scale. BlueCloud, a Snowflake Elite Services Partner delivering advisory-led data and AI transformation for enterprise organizations, today announced the continued expansion of its global delivery organization. With significant plans
BlueCloud Strengthens Global Capabilities for Enterprise Data and AI Read Post »
The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.
Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race Read Post »
Getting more daylight could be linked to a surprisingly powerful benefit for brain health. In a study of more than 87,000 adults, researchers found that higher daytime light exposure was associated with a 16% lower risk of dementia, with longer exposure to bright light linked to even greater reductions. Remarkably, getting less than 42 minutes
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Mathematicians have uncovered what they argue is a fundamental flaw in the standard model of the universe, potentially challenging the need for dark energy. Their calculations suggest that the mathematical framework used to describe cosmic expansion is inherently unstable and that the universe could accelerate naturally under Einstein’s original theory of gravity. The findings also
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Bengaluru-based Gnani AI has launched Prisma v3.0, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model designed to transcribe multilingual conversations, including speech that switches between Indian languages and English within a sentence. The model supports Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and English. According to the company, Prisma v3.0 recorded a macro Word Error
Gnani AI Launches Prisma v3.0 Speech Recognition Model for 10 Languages Read Post »
A self-driving tractor-trailer cruises around a test track in Pittsburgh. AP/Gene J. Puskar Driverless trucks with artificial intelligence on board could dramatically change the landscape of freight shipping. A few companies have begun testing early models on some limited routes in Texas and California. Simulations of automated fleets show the potential benefits of the technology:
