General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Despite a lukewarm review and high price, the author is drawn to Valve's Steam Machine for its silent operation, compact size, and seamless integration with their Steam library and controller, finding it superior to consoles and even the Steam Deck for TV gaming.
Former Twitter, Meta, and OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has joined the board of Seattle-based rocket startup Stoke Space. The well-funded company aims to compete with SpaceX by building a fully reusable rocket, Nova.
French AI startup ZML has launched ZML/LLMD, an inference server designed to optimize large language models across various chips, including Nvidia, AMD, and Apple. The software aims to break vendor lock-in and reduce AI costs by enabling efficient use of diverse hardware, potentially disrupting Nvidia's market dominance.
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has secured $1 billion in its Series F funding round, valuing the company at $11 billion. Led by General Atlantic, the round saw participation from new and existing investors, including Intel and JPMorgan Chase, which selected SambaNova as an inference-infrastructure partner.
Researchers have devised HalluSquatting, a novel pull-based AI attack that exploits LLM hallucinations of resource identifiers to create massive botnets, conduct large-scale DDoS attacks, and infect devices. The attack targets AI coding assistants and agents by registering predicted hallucinated identifiers with malicious code.
Meta has launched Muse Image, a free AI image generator from its Superintelligence Labs, available via the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. It offers preset prompts, custom ad creation, interior design visualization for Facebook Marketplace, and prompt-based editing.
