Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information — such as information about co-workers, active projects, and recent travel itineraries — allowing bad actors to instantly craft convincing messages that look authentic. Last year, former Google security executives…
Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is making its move to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models. Claude’s voice mode, which was released last year and powered…
In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. We configure the GPU environment, install the required dependencies, load the 3B-parameter vision-language model with automatic selection of bfloat16 or float16, and generate structured sample documents for testing. We then evaluate both the tiled Gundam inference…
Over the previous 12 months, Meta has funded the development of no less than a dozen pure gasoline energy crops, together with one mission that alone will burn sufficient pure gasoline to generate as a lot electrical energy as your complete state of South Dakota makes use of. Now Meta is not a part of…
U.S. regulators will look into growing new necessities for automakers to make sure drivers and passengers can safely exit their automobiles. The brand new rule-making course of, outlined in a regulatory filing and first reported by Bloomberg, follows a collection of incidents, together with deadly ones, during which folks have turn out to be caught…
Insurance tech, data room software, and coffee-shop startup Corgi is reportedly raising yet another round that closely follows its last raise and would double its valuation, sources have told Forbes. The round is said to be a second extension of its Series B round and has already closed. Corgi announced its last round, the B1…
Patreon is shedding 20% of its workforce, or 93 folks, CEO Jack Conte informed staff on Thursday. In a memo to workers that was shared online by the corporate, Conte mentioned Patreon’s core enterprise is powerful however that the platform has to reply to market modifications and modify its value construction to stay steady, which…
For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as that of offensive cybersecurity researchers. In June, the U.S. government slapped export control restrictions on Anthropic’s much-hyped AI…
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the country’s most exciting early-stage startups. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney to pitch live in front of investors, press, and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will earn an…
Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down from the top leadership post after nearly three decades, just as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots. Shashua will remain CEO until Mobileye hires a replacement, according to a regulatory filing Thursday. Mobileye got its start making computer vision chips based on Shashua’s…
