Author Archives: David Birch

xxx Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips inside data centers directly toContinue reading “Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI — The Information”

xxx In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. This illustrates how barriers to the use of AI in relatively autonomous cyber workflows are rapidlyContinue reading “AI Models on Realistic Cyber Ranges \ red.anthropic.com”

xxx To understand how a stablecoin-backed card program actually works, a look at the names on the plastic or metal might help, but as most of this audience already knows, there’s more to it than that. From a cardholder’s perspective, the experience is familiar. Under the hood, however, the system added several new, tightly coordinatedContinue reading “CardsFTW #188: A Stablecoin Card Primer”

xxx GPTZero, a detector of AI output, has found yet again that scientists are undermining their credibility by relying on unreliable AI assistance. The New York-based biz has identified 100 hallucinations in more than 51 papers accepted by the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). This finding follows the company’s prior discovery of 50Continue reading “AI conference’s papers contaminated by AI hallucinations • The Register”

xxx Bank of New York Mellon said it now employs dozens of artificial intelligence-powered ‘digital employees’ that have company logins and work alongside its human staff. From: Digital Workers Have Arrived in Banking – WSJ. xxx

xxx Indeed, D&D’s complex rules, extended campaigns and need for teamwork are an ideal environment to evaluate the long-term performance of AI agents powered by Large Language Models, according to a team of computer scientists led by researchers at the University of California San Diego. From: AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assessContinue reading “AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assess long-term decision-making”

xxx The models played against each other, and against over 2,000 experienced D&D players recruited by the researchers. The LLMs modeled and played 27 different scenarios selected from well-known D&D battle set ups named Goblin Ambush, Kennel in Cragmaw Hideout and Klarg’s Cave. In the process, the models exhibited some quirky behaviors. Goblins started developingContinue reading “AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assess long-term decision-making”

The CEO of McKinsey, Bob Sternfels, recently said that his firm now has a workforce of 60,000, which he said is made up of 40,000 humans and 20,000 AI agents. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January, he upped that number closer to 25,000. On this trend, the company will soonContinue reading “POST KYE”

xxx Deloitte’s member firm in Australia will pay the government a partial refund for a $290,000 report that contained alleged AI-generated errors, including references to non-existent academic research papers and a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment. From: Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down onContinue reading “Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune”

xxx Use of some form of digital proof of identity will still be mandatory for right-to-work checks, but the government digital ID app will only be one option for doing so. From: UK government backtracks on plans for mandatory digital ID | Computer Weekly. xxx