Perplexity launches an assistant for Android

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, which Perplexity says uses reasoning, search, and apps to help with daily tasks. Perplexity Assistant, which is available for Android devices as of Thursday in the Perplexity app, can take “multi-app actions,” the company says, like hailing a ride or searching for […]
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EA shares plunge 19%, on track for worst day since dot-com bubble

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Electronic Arts shares plummeted on Thursday after the video game publisher cut its forecast, due largely to challenges with its soccer franchise.

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Three outage leaves thousands unable to make calls

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

There have also been several thousand reports of problems from users of Smarty and ID Mobile.

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Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become […]
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Scale AI CEO says China has quickly caught the U.S. with the DeepSeek open-source model

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, said Thursday that the AI race between the U.S. and China is an “AI war.”

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A Test So Hard No AI System Can Pass It — Yet

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

The creators of a new test called “Humanity’s Last Exam” argue we may soon lose the ability to create tests hard enough for A.I. models.

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How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With OpenAI and Google

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.

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Hackers found a way to remotely unlock, start, and track millions of Subarus

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

As long as employees have access to such data, that information is vulnerable to evolving methods of hacking.
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Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that a “new paradigm of AI architectures” will emerge in the next three to five years, going far beyond the capabilities of existing AI systems. LeCun also predicted that the coming years could be the “decade of robotics,” where advances in AI and robotics combine to unlock a […]
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GhostGPT: Uncensored Chatbot Used by Cyber Criminals for Malware Creation, Scams

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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