AI is reportedly ‘democratising’ cybercrime by making it easier than ever for bad guys with limited tech skills to have a crack ransomware and other malicious code

“I’m here to help you out with that!” So, says the WORMGPT chatbot in the breezy, impossibly upbeat tone that’s become characteristic of current AI models. Except, that’s in response to a request to generate ransomware. It all sounds a bit like a dystopian respin of the cheerful, sentient doors in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to…

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Benedict Cumberbatch is World of Tanks’ new ‘Holiday Ambassador’, starring in a bizarre (and expensive) Christmas advert that has very little to do with either tanks or Christmas

There are times when World of Tanks feels less like a videogame and more like a giant ad budget looking for something to be spent on. This year, all those huge sacks with dollar signs on them have been thrown Benedict Cumberbatch’s way, making him the game’s newest “Holiday Ambassador” and the star of an…

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Could a new generation of dedicated AI chips burst Nvidia’s bubble and do for AI GPUs what ASICs did for crypto mining?

A Chinese startup founded by a former Google engineer claims to have created a new ultra-efficient and relatively low cost AI chip using older manufacturing techniques. Meanwhile, Google itself is now reportedly considering whether to make its own specialised AI chips available to buy. Together, these chips could represent the start of a new processing…

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