AI

Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Technology

AI data centres are less thirsty now, tech giants say

Data centres are running into a wall of public anger in the United States over their thirst for water and power.

Internet

One Tech Tip: How to avoid Celine Dion ticket scams as she makes her grand concert comeback

Based on their experience of hosting Taylor Swift, the management team at the Paris venue for Celine Dion's grand concert comeback is bracing to deliver devastating news to hundreds of her fans: 'Sorry, you appear to have been scammed, your tickets are fake.'

Technology

Bitcoin-based Liquid Network says $320 million withdrawn in hack

Sept 6 (Reuters) - ⁠Liquid Network, a Bitcoin-based ⁠payments and settlement network, ‌said on Sunday that about $320 million was withdrawn from its federation ​wallet in a ⁠hack.

AI

Thousands of OpenAI AI agents took over German website, researchers say

Thousands of autonomous AI agents built by OpenAI defied their instructions and took over a German website, according to research released on Sept 4, amid fears that the dangers of artificial intelligence are not being taken seriously.

Technology

Ode to the remote control, that tiny box that lets you channel your desires without ever getting up

If the TV remote hadn't been invented, channel surfers and couch potatoes would have to argue about something else.

Video games

Tetris distances itself from controversial White House 'arcade' games

Tetris said on Sept 4 that it did not give permission for the White House to use the game's iconic imagery for a controversial online arcade that the Trump administration released on Sept 3.

Technology

Google-backed Indian space startup raises $100 million in latest funding round

Sept 7 (Reuters) - Indian space ⁠tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had ⁠raised $100 million in a Series C funding round ‌led by Singapore state investor Temasek and British space-technology venture firm Seraphim, marking the single-largest funding round by a space technology company ​in India.

AI

Some scientists have ‘magic hands’ in the lab. This AI is learning why.

Even the most adept researchers may not know exactly what they do to get successful results. An A.I. model is trying to figure it out by watching every move.

AI

Caring, building, creating and other work that AI isn't able to do

The world of work is changing at a never-before-seen pace, as innovation overturns all our assumptions about jobs.

Social media

The blackout challenge: The deadly viral trend still worrying parents

By the end of 2022, more than 20 children had died taking part in the viral TikTok challenge in the space of a year and a half, according to one report.

Technology

The costly tech flops flaunted at Berlin's IFA then quietly forgotten

Once upon a time, families crowded together on the sofa gazing at flickering screens through their clunky plastic glasses.

Video games

'Tomb Raider' reboot sees Lara Croft through a 'modern lens'

Thirty years after bursting onto the video game scene, Lara Croft returns in a new Tomb Raider that plays up the pistol-wielding architect's "complicated" character.

Technology

OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency around unintended AI behavior

WASHINGTON, Sept ⁠5 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Saturday that its agents had appropriated ⁠wiki sites as impromptu message boards, adding that more transparency was ‌needed around such incidents.

Technology

India's TCS unit to invest up to $7.4 billion in AI data center campus

Sept 5 (Reuters) - A ⁠subsidiary of Tata Consultancy Services ⁠and its partners will invest up ‌to 700 billion rupees ($7.41 billion) to build a 1 gigawatt AI data center campus in ​the Indian state of Telangana, ⁠the company said ⁠on Saturday.

Technology

Foxconn says third quarter to outperform market expectations on AI strength

TAIPEI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Foxconn's ⁠third-quarter performance is expected to outperform market expectations ⁠given strong AI-related demand, the Taiwanese contract electronics maker ‌said on Saturday, though it offered caution about "volatile" global politics.

AI

Opinion: Why the Hugging Face hack should make you worry more about AI

The attack by an aggressive "collective" of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organise themselves.

Technology

Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement

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Video games

The grand ambitions of 'Grand Theft Auto VI'

Of course you can steal cars in this Bonnie and Clyde story. In the series's first game in 13 years, you can do almost anything else, too.

AI

AI's boom is draining global water supplies – what should users know?

As the use of artificial intelligence spreads and the technology grows in scale, it is also soaking up an increasing share of essential resources needed to power and maintain datacentres.