In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly”
Market: WE LOVE AI, DO AI THING — META: Sure thing, ploughing $40bn into capex this year — Market: wait not like that — First time we've seen a negative market reaction to the reality of AI unit...
Investigation: a Russian espionage and hacking campaign targeted Georgia for years and breached its Foreign Ministry, Finance Ministry, central bank, and more
Bloomberg : X: @willneal93 , @martijnrasser , @rj_gallagher , and @albertonardelli X: Will Neal / @willneal93 : Well this is a pretty chilling read. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Martijn Rasser / @ma...
Western intelligence officials say that former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, who fled to Moscow after nearly $2B went missing, was likely a Russian agent for years
Shortly afterwards, its chief operating officer Jan Marsalek boarded a private jet out of Austria, landed in Belarus, took a car to Moscow where he now he got a Russian passport under a fake name. … X...
Meta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $32B, net income up 16% YoY to $7.79B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.07B for June 2023; META jumps 10%+
but most of the new users came from outside the US and Canada Karissa Bell / Engadget : Meta had its best quarter since 2021 despite losing more money on the metaverse Abubakar Idris / The Messenger :...
A look at Mittens, a ruthless Chess.com bot with a kitten avatar introduced on January 1 that is driving more people than ever to play in the site's history
A ruthless bot with an innocuous avatar is driving chess players crazy — The heels of the chess world have included Soviet grandmasters … Tweets: @emilejames_ , @jjauthor , @firstadopter , @andrewlb...
An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on the US CFPB's probe into BNPL services, issues with credit cards, the current economic environment, and more
Lauren Goode / Wired : Tweets: @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @laurengoode , @wired , @usmanbk77 , @tsimonite , @waltmossberg , and @mlevchin Tweets: Laure...
A new generation of young workers at China's technology giants is demanding an end to forced rankings, harsh working conditions, and the “996” work culture
By the time he arrived at Alibaba, Tim had been working to get there for years. Raised in a small town in Zhejiang province … Tweets: @yuanfenyang , @gaberivera , @mollymckew , @jchengwsj , @financia...
How Arkady Bukh, a New York-based immigrant from the former Soviet bloc, emerged as the go-to defense lawyer for the cybercrime underworld
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop : Tweets: @jeffstone500 , @snlyngaas , @iblametom , @jgamblin , @jscros , @underworld_pod , and @shanvav . Thanks: @jwarminsky Tweets: Jeff Stone / @jeffstone500 : I've spent ...
Despite Bitcoin's dive, thousands of Georgians have sold cars to buy computers to mine Bitcoin; ~10% of the country's energy output goes into mining Bitcoin
Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , and @de...