Journals

Emilia David / The Verge: Google DeepMind details SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills to play like a human; SIMA trained on No Man’s Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and other games  —  Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an… Read More »Google DeepMind details SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills to play like a human; SIMA trained on No Man’s Sky, Goat Simulator 3, and other games (Emilia David/The Verge)

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Arm unveils its first Neoverse chips for self-driving cars, seeking to grow its non-smartphone revenue; the first vehicles are likely in four to five years  —  SoftBank-backed group targets automotive sector as it diversifies from… Read More »Arm unveils its first Neoverse chips for self-driving cars, seeking to grow its non-smartphone revenue; the first vehicles are likely in four to five years (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Bloomberg: A February 21 hack of Change Healthcare has seized the US health care system for over three weeks, halting billions in payments; Change processes $2T per year  —  The Change Healthcare cyberattack brought the routine flow of billions of… Read More »A February 21 hack of Change Healthcare has seized the US health care system for over three weeks, halting billions in payments; Change processes $2T per year (Bloomberg)

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: Cerebras announces the WSE-3, a TSMC-made 5nm chip almost the size of a 12-inch wafer with 4T transistors, up from 2.6T in the WSE-2, for training AI models  —  The race for ever-larger generative artificial intelligence… Read More »Cerebras announces the WSE-3, a TSMC-made 5nm chip almost the size of a 12-inch wafer with 4T transistors, up from 2.6T in the WSE-2, for training AI models (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: A US jury convicts Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov over operating crypto “tumbler” Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021, laundering 1.2M BTC worth ~$400M  —  Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov was convicted by a federal jury in Washington,… Read More »A US jury convicts Russian-Swedish national Roman Sterlingov over operating crypto “tumbler” Bitcoin Fog between 2011 and 2021, laundering 1.2M BTC worth ~$400M (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Washington Post: How online group 764 uses Discord and Telegram to blackmail teens into degrading and violent acts and then boast about it; Discord removed 34K users in 2023  —  Vulnerable teens are blackmailed into degrading and violent acts by… Read More »How online group 764 uses Discord and Telegram to blackmail teens into degrading and violent acts and then boast about it; Discord removed 34K users in 2023 (Washington Post)

Ali Winston / Wired: An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators, who target, groom, and extort kids online  —  A global network of violent predators is hiding… Read More »An analysis of 3M+ Discord and Telegram chats in 50+ groups finds a global network of thousands of violent predators, who target, groom, and extort kids online (Ali Winston/Wired)

George Hammond / Financial Times: Memo: John Collison says Stripe is in “no rush” to go public and payments volume rose 25% YoY to $1T in 2023; source: Stripe hit $1B in net revenue in Q3 2023  —  Payments company… Read More »Memo: John Collison says Stripe is in “no rush” to go public and payments volume rose 25% YoY to $1T in 2023; source: Stripe hit $1B in net revenue in Q3 2023 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Mike Isaac / New York Times: How Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who returned in 2015 during a leadership crisis, grew the website to $800M+ in annual revenue and 2,000 staff, up from 80 in 2015  —  The site, a throwback… Read More »How Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, who returned in 2015 during a leadership crisis, grew the website to $800M+ in annual revenue and 2,000 staff, up from 80 in 2015 (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

CNBC: The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories  —  – The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world’s… Read More »The EU Parliament approves the AI Act, voting 523 in favor and 46 against, despite competition fears; the Act, born in 2021, puts AI tech into risk categories (CNBC)