Biz & IT – Ars Technica

Plan will offer guaranteed payments for British startups making AI hardware

Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”

So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.

Google’s AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

HEVC licensing gets more expensive in January.

“I worry this is the big botnet flexing,” CEO said. But outage was self-inflicted.

Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?

ChatGPT competitor secures billions from Microsoft and Nvidia in deal to use cloud services and chips.

Bitcoin mining hardware exec falls for sophisticated crypto scam to tune of $200k

Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.

Fleets of laptops run from US residences gave appearance workers were in the US.

Company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts.

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off.

The results of AI-assisted hacking aren’t as impressive as many might have us believe.

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta’s shift from research to rapid product releases.

Relatively new technique can bypass many endpoint protections.

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits.

New “computational Turing test” reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy.

Sandworm and other Russian-state hackers unleash data-destroying payloads on their neighbors.