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Sam Altman officially back as OpenAI CEO: “We didn’t lose a single employee”

Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Benj Edwards) On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Sam Altman has officially returned to the ChatGPT-maker as CEO—accompanied by Mira Murati as CTO and Greg Brockman as president—resuming their roles…

ChatGPT is one year old. Here’s how it changed the tech world.

Enlarge / An artist's interpretation of what ChatGPT might look like if embodied in the form of a robot toy blowing out a birthday candle. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) One year…

Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card

Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the Apple Card credit card, high-interest savings accounts, and a buy-now-pay-later service called Apple…

Stable Diffusion XL Turbo can generate AI images as fast as you can type

Enlarge / Example images generated using Stable Diffusion XL Turbo. (credit: Stable Diffusion XL Turbo / Benj Edwards) On Tuesday, Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion XL Turbo, an AI image-synthesis model that can…

Amazon unleashes Q, an AI assistant for the workplace

Enlarge / The Amazon Q logo. (credit: Amazon) On Tuesday, Amazon unveiled Amazon Q, an AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is tailored for corporate environments. Developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Q…

2 municipal water facilities report falling to hackers in separate breaches

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the stretch of a few days, two municipal water facilities that serve more than 2 million residents in parts of Pennsylvania and Texas have reported network security breaches…

Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A prolific espionage hacking group with ties to China spent over two years looting the corporate network of NXP, the Netherlands-based chipmaker whose silicon powers security-sensitive components found in…

Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

Enlarge / The Ekobot autonomous weeding robot roving around an onion field in Sweden. (credit: Ekobot AB) Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it's a tedious task. Scale it…

ownCloud vulnerability with maximum 10 severity score comes under “mass” exploitation

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Security researchers are tracking what they say is the “mass exploitation” of a security vulnerability that makes it possible to take full control of servers running ownCloud, a widely…

Amazon’s $195 thin clients are repurposed Fire TV Cubes

Enlarge / A blog post from AWS chief evangelist Jeff Barr shows the Workspaces Thin Client setup. (credit: Jeff Barr/Amazon) Amazon has turned its Fire TV Cube streaming device into a thin client…