Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
Meta's new AI advertisement features David Bowie's song 'Five Years,' which contains lyrics about the world ending.
Wired AI·23 Jul
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Meta's new AI advertisement features David Bowie's song 'Five Years,' which contains lyrics about the world ending.
Cloudflare introduced Cache Response Rules to improve caching efficiency by addressing problematic HTTP headers like Set-Cookie and Cache-Control.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, secured $36M in funding to develop AI agents for detecting sophisticated spear phishing attacks.
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OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health generally available to all US users, enabling integration with personal health data from services like Apple Health.
AMD introduced new data center products, claiming superior performance over Nvidia, targeting the expanding AI computing market.
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AWS details building multi-region performance dashboards in QuickSight using Highcharts custom visualizations, ensuring data sovereignty.
Amazon Bedrock's new AgentCore optimization identifies and explains 'silent' failures in production AI agents that pass health checks but produce incorrect outputs.
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AWS introduces AgenticRetrieveStream API for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, improving RAG performance on multi-part questions.
Meta launched an AI advertisement featuring David Bowie's 'Five Years,' a song about impending human extinction, sparking criticism.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey sent a letter to the Daily Mail regarding AI and cyber-attacks.
Databricks claims their specialized data agent outperforms general coding agents in quality and cost for data-specific tasks.
Sequoia Capital invested in Etched, a company focused on building specialized inference hardware for large language models.
Microsoft reports a Q2 2026 decline in phishing due to Tycoon2FA disruption, alongside a rise in Teams-based social engineering and automated attacks.
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Google's Gemini model approached 1 billion monthly users in February, indicating significant consumer adoption of the multimodal LLM.
Databricks introduced AI Spend Controls in its Unity AI Gateway to help manage LLM inference costs and rate limits across providers.
Microsoft expands its Mistral partnership, Intel gains a new chip customer, and Microsoft addresses admin issues; OpenAI's security, Google Cloud's quarter, and 'Verse' are noted.
STMicroelectronics' Q3 sales forecast missed analyst expectations, raising doubts about the extent of the AI spending boom for chipmakers.
UK NCSC and partners exposed Russian state-backed 'LAUNDRY BEAR' for a new 'zero-click' phishing campaign targeting Western organizations.
Russian state-supported cyber actors are conducting a phishing campaign targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration Suite software.
CISA issued an advisory for Johnson Controls XAAP Android <1.53, citing a cleartext storage vulnerability risking confidential data.
CISA issued a cybersecurity advisory for Weintek cMT3092X firmware vulnerabilities (CVSS 8.8) allowing privilege escalation and credential viewing.
CISA warns of critical vulnerabilities in Panduit IntraVUE industrial control system software, allowing remote manipulation of devices.
Cockroach Labs CEO discusses Bring Your Own Cloud, agentic AI economics, and database wrappers, implying trends in enterprise data infrastructure.
IBM states enterprise software deals were delayed, not cancelled, by customers prioritizing hardware investments for AI initiatives.
Trade unions are forming alliances and expressing concerns over potential job displacement due to AI, seeking collective strategies to address the impact.
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Experts suggest Kimi K3's rapid advancement likely involved more than mere distillation from Anthropic’s Fable model, indicating substantial independent development.
IBM's CFO states mainframe deals are closing despite short-term CapEx accounting impacts, affirming continued client interest.
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The Financial Times reports on Japan's AI strategy and Taiwan's aerospace initiatives, focusing on broader Asian tech trends.
Chinese AI models narrowed the performance gap with US counterparts to 6% in June from 9% in May, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
ServiceNow invested $40 million in BusinessNext, an Indian banking software specialist, to expand its AI-powered financial services offering.
Thailand received $40.6 billion in foreign direct investment applications in H1 2026, up 80% year-on-year, driven by AI and data center projects.
Laguna S 2.1 model released, claimed to be cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and to outperform Deepseek v4 Pro in benchmarks.
STMicroelectronics forecast Q3 sales below analyst expectations, leading to a stock drop and dimming hopes for AI data center-driven recovery.
Poolside AI claims to have developed a 'model factory' capable of training custom 118B MOE models that outperform larger open-source alternatives.
Francisco Partners co-founder DJ Deb states AI will not kill the software sector as the firm raises $21bn for new investments.
Researchers introduced a quantum graph convolutional architecture for unsupervised learning designed for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware.
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Research proposes statistical early stopping methods for LLMs to reduce unnecessary reasoning steps, especially under uncertainty.
Research explores auditable fine-tuning and inference for proprietary AI models delegated to cloud providers, addressing trust gaps with cryptographic methods.
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New dataset and benchmark, Air Quality Arena, evaluates time-series foundation models for large-scale, multi-region air quality forecasting.
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