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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO […]

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Citizen Lab says exiled Uyghur leaders targeted with Windows spyware

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Unknown hackers last month targeted leaders of the exiled Uyghur community in a campaign involving Windows spyware, researchers revealed Monday.  Citizen Lab, a digital rights research group based at the University of Toronto, detailed an espionage campaign against members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an organization that represents the Muslim-minority group, which has for

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Report: Adam Neumann’s Flow raises $100M+, more than doubles valuation to $2.5B

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Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has raised over $100 million in capital for his proptech startup, Flow, in a round that values that company at about $2.5 billion, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.  Citing anonymous sources familiar with the deal, Bloomberg reported that existing backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) participated in the financing. Neumann told Bloomberg that

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ChatGPT’s responses will now include Washington Post articles

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OpenAI and The Washington Post just announced a new content partnership that will see ChatGPT summarize and link to the Post’s original reporting in its answers. This is OpenAI’s latest media partnership, with the AI giant inking deals with over 20 news publishers so far, including outlets like The Guardian and Axios. The Washington Post

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Trump administration reportedly considers a US DeepSeek ban

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The Trump administration is considering new restrictions on the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek that would limit it from buying Nvidia’s AI chips, and potentially bar Americans from accessing its AI services, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The restrictions are part of the Trump administration’s effort to compete with China on AI. Months after

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Former CISA director Chris Krebs vows to fight back against Trump-ordered federal investigation

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Former top Trump cybersecurity official Chris Krebs told The Wall Street Journal in an interview on Wednesday that he vowed to fight back against a federal investigation ordered into him by President Trump. Krebs said in the interview that he will resign from his position at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne in order to challenge the federal

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Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

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During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insider reports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that

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