On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves a 72.2 percent score on SWE-bench Verified, a benchmark that attempts to test whether AI systems can solve real GitHub issues, putting it among… Read More »
In July 2023, Musk himself tweeted that “we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand, and gradually, all the birds.” That was when Peroff, a Chicago-area attorney specializing in trademark and IP law, saw an opportunity not only to claim the name Twitter but also to use the iconic illustrated logo that was affectionately referred… Read More »
“We acknowledge the European Commission’s statement,” said Meta. “Personalized ads are vital for Europe’s economy.” The investigation took place under the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, which is designed to tackle the power of Big Tech giants and is among the bloc’s tech regulations that have drawn fierce pushback from the Trump administration. The announcement… Read More »
Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs. The Department of Justice on Thursday said that Muneeb Akhter and Sohaib Akhter, both… Read More »
“I usually don’t say this, but patch right freakin’ now,” one researcher wrote. “The React CVE listing (CVE-2025-55182) is a perfect 10.” React versions 19.0.1, 19.1.2, or 19.2.1 contain the vulnerable code. Third-party components known to be affected include: Vite RSC plugin Parcel RSC plugin React Router RSC preview RedwoodSDK Waku Next.js According to Wiz… Read More »
Microsoft has lowered sales growth targets for its AI agent products after many salespeople missed their quotas in the fiscal year ending in June, according to a report Wednesday from The Information. The adjustment is reportedly unusual for Microsoft, and it comes after the company missed a number of ambitious sales goals for its AI… Read More »
A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that is targeting government and private-industry organizations in the US and Europe, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers have previously tracked smaller pieces of the enormous infrastructure. Last month, security firm… Read More »
In addition to buzz about Gemini on social media, Google is quickly catching up to ChatGPT in user numbers. ChatGPT has more than 800 million weekly users, according to OpenAI, while Google’s Gemini app has grown from 450 million monthly active users in July to 650 million in October, according to Business Insider. Financial stakes… Read More »
Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions. The findings reveal a weakness in how these models process instructions that may shed light on why some prompt injection or jailbreaking… Read More »
HP Inc. said that it will lay off 4,000 to 6,000 employees in favor of AI deployments, claiming it will help save $1 billion in annualized gross run rate by the end of its fiscal 2028. HP expects to complete the layoffs by the end of that fiscal year. The reductions will largely hit product… Read More »