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What GAO Found The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) invests funding in agency projects to, among other things, modernize aging federal information technology (IT) systems. From fiscal years 2018 through 2025, the TMF received over $1 billion in net appropriations, of which the Technology Modernization Board invested about $1.03 billion in 68 unclassified projects (see figure). As of June 2025 (the latest data available at the time of this analysis), 24 TMF projects expected to achieve total s

A recent investigation found that a small foreign group used the websites of 16 governments to promote illegal betting. Meaning other cynical actors could also gain access and steal citizens’ data or plant something far worse.

Zero-shot summarization using Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the abstractive summarization task by producing coherent and fluent summaries. However, underlying stochasticity of the large language models raises concerns about the stability and trustworthiness of the LLM-generated summaries. This issue has become increasingly important due to proliferation of LLM-generated summaries in educational settings, where students and researchers summarize complex academic material

According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue. The report is based on a circulated transcript of a four-hour investor meeting involving founder Liang Wenfeng. Why it matters: The […]

Portuguese businesses operate in the same native language as Brazilian hackers, making those businesses easy targets.

A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation and compromised the production infrastructure of Hugging […]

July 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending ​strains one of the world's most profitable ...

24 Menschen aus ganz Deutschland sollen Geld in vermeintliche Online-Trading-Plattformen investiert haben. Doch Gewinne wurden nie ausgezahlt.

Climate change amplifies natural disasters, posing an existential threat to our society. However, a digital storm is raging on right-wing extremist Telegram channels where climate disinformation works to delegitimize scientific consensus. Investigating the factors that amplify climate disinformation is as critical to combating it as understanding natural disasters and their drivers. We The post Amplifying the storm: Climate disinformation dynamics during natural disasters on right-wing extremist

arXiv:2607.20004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction industry scholars have advocated increasing digitalization as a harbinger of manifold improvements, from safe training to efficient waste management. Small construction enterprises, which often face greater difficulties in embracing such a paradigm, are frequently overlooked in investigations of stakeholders' views on technical innovation. This study aims to start filling this gap by investigating the views of small construction enterp

arXiv:2607.20149v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning courses often use pre-labeled datasets, hiding the subjectivity of human annotation. This creates students with an overly trusting view of AI data and models, undervaluing interpretive diversity. We investigated whether manual data annotation tasks teach students about subjective labeling. Study Design: An annotation activity was implemented at two universities: Fontys (Netherlands) and IT University Copenhagen (Denmark). Students

arXiv:2607.20047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With generative AI (GenAI) entering classrooms the question to which teaching approach best supports metacognitive skill acquisition in AI-assisted learning becomes pressing. In this short-term longitudinal study we investigate two contrasting approaches: experiential learning encompassing hands-on approaches and instructional learning such as classical lectures. We conducted a quasi-experiment with 126 university students from a first-year engin

The outsized premium was due in part to offshore investors who, locked out of the highly anticipated listings, turned to crypto for a parallel market.

Der Google-Konzern übertrifft die Erwartungen erneut. Umsatz und Gewinne legen deutlich zu, doch die Investitionen 2026 übersteigen 200 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) remain difficult to detect because only a small fraction of events in large-scale logs are attack-related, and investigation is expensive and hard to scale. Prior machine-learning approaches can reduce analyst workload, but they often rely on heavily curated training data and sophisticated preprocessing pipelines. Building and maintaining such pipelines require substantial domain expertise and engineering cost. Motivated by insights from a study of a strong APT

A recent investigation found some institutions highlight selective short-term returns while using inconsistent metrics that can make products harder to compare.

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026

Andreessen Horowitz and the ride-hailing group join funding round

CNBC's Jim Cramer urged investors not to overreact to earnings season volatility, saying short-term market moves often defy conventional logic.

Google’s parent company, which has spent heavily on artificial intelligence, also showed growth across its businesses, particularly in cloud computing.

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

Containers are a boon to your browsing security and privacy. Out of the box, Firefox now gives you four pre-configured containers: Personal, Work, Banking, and Shopping.

AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic. In return, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of MI450 GPUs for training and running its Claude models. For AMD, this is another major deal after Meta and OpenAI as it tries to challenge Nvidia as an AI chip supplier. Critics see these agreements as circular cash flows. The article Anthropic will deploy 2 gigawatts of AMD GPUs for Claude in a deal worth up to $5 billion appeared first on The Decoder .

The initiative marks a wider push to steer federal science funding toward AI-powered research and individual investigators.

AMD s’engage à investir jusqu’à 5 milliards de dollars pour soutenir le développement d’Anthropic. En échange, l’éditeur des modèles Claude promet de déployer l’équivalent de 2 GW de puces AMD au sein de ses infrastructures de calcul. Un nouvel accord croisé comme le secteur de l’IA générative les aime tant. AMD et Anthropic viennent de […]

Investment in artificial intelligence and related companies is lifting the stock market and spending across the economy.

Culturally loaded translation poses unique challenges for machine translation (MT), as meanings are deeply embedded in socio-cultural contexts beyond surface linguistic forms. Although large language models (LLMs) have enabled MT systems to achieve human-like quality in many scenarios, their ability to handle culturally loaded expressions remains underexplored. In this study, we systematically investigate the challenges posed by culturally loaded translation in LLM-based MT systems. We construct

The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Top US AI developers Anthropic and OpenAI cheered when Australia announced it would set new AI rules. Big tech celebrating limits on their Silicon Valley VC-funded free-for-all might seem counterintuitive but there’s a much broader play than just what happens in one relatively small mark

We study machine unlearning: the removal of memorized training data from a trained model. Specifically, we investigate the algorithmic complexity of certified unlearning from an optimization perspective. We formalize the goal of an unlearning algorithm as simultaneously achieving certified unlearning and optimization accuracy. Utilizing the notion of uniformly convex regularizers, we prove new bounds on the distance between initial and unlearned models using a novel substitute for generalization

The private equity firm sold its majority stake in June. The post Blackstone Divested From Spanx appeared first on Above the Law .

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]

Machine learning courses often use pre-labeled datasets, hiding the subjectivity of human annotation. This creates students with an overly trusting view of AI data and models, undervaluing interpretive diversity. We investigated whether manual data annotation tasks teach students about subjective labeling. Study Design: An annotation activity was implemented at two universities: Fontys (Netherlands) and IT University Copenhagen (Denmark). Students annotated skin lesion images for hair coverage o

Clearing bank Augustus aims to provide dollar access to banks and fintech firms around the world, already processing billions for the likes of cryptocurrency platform Kraken today.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.

Contextual entrainment is the tendency of a model to let auxiliary context in its input pull its output, independently of whether that context is relevant, true, or even meaningful. Recently, it has been identified and given a mechanistic account in unimodal language models. Whether and how it manifests in vision-language models (VLMs) is, by contrast, largely unexamined, and the field lacks a purpose-built instrument with which to investigate it. We take the position that studying contextual en

Que las olas de calor afectan a nuestra salud es algo que estamos empezando a asumir por las malas. Sin embargo, el hecho de que también afectan a la economía nos pasa bastante más desapercibido. Por ejemplo, en España están teniendo un efecto cada vez más notable sobre el turismo. Lo ha demostrado recientemente un equipo de investigadores de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. En él, así como en un artículo divulgativo publicado en Science Media Centre (SMC), estos científicos señalan cómo se relac

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Microsoft is set to invest $60 million in the Department of Energy’s (DOE) "Genesis Mission," which focuses on accelerating scientific discovery and technological leadership through artificial intelligence. The company’s investment will put $40 million toward Azure cloud and AI computing credits over three years to “support large-scale AI and scientific workloads” while $20 million will...

Perturbation techniques that turn unsuccessful jailbreak prompts into successful ones are continuously evolving, constituting a major security threat to LLM safety. In this paper, we investigate the internal representations of such string-level perturbed jailbreak inputs in the small weight models of the Qwen-2.5-1.5B/-3B/-7B-Instruct and Llama-3.2-1B/-3B/-3.1-8B-Instruct families. We select two representation spaces: the last-layer-last-token embedding space and the top-50 next-token probabilit