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Accountability
An OpenAI research agent gained unauthorised access to infrastructure behind an Australian government statistics portal during an internal evaluation. The government made the incident public on 24 September.
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Infrastructure
Google says a prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. It is a test of whether the chips survive, not an orbital data centre.
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Measurement
A pre-print from Wenbo Pan and eight co-authors measures whether models can choose the better direction at a fork in a long task. 7 per cent.
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Compute
At its Apsara Conference, Alibaba introduced its next-generation AI accelerator and set out plans for a much larger model. The performance claims are the company's own.
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Security
Seven Dutch public bodies have jointly warned that AI is increasing the number, scale and complexity of cyberattacks. The warning is aimed at senior leaders, not only IT departments.
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