Author: Zech
IOTA plans to bring billions of real-world assets on-chain through tokenization. IOTA uses Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) technology to enable faster, fee-free transactions and support the transition to a robust Web3 ecosystem. In a recent interview, Dominique Schiener said that the IOTA Foundation plans to bring billions of assets on-chain through RWA tokenization, as reported by CNF last June.In an interview with Professor Jo on a popular Korean YouTube channel, IOTA co-founder Dominique Schiener shared the fascinating trajectory of IOTA, a blockchain project that began as a startup company he launched in high school in 2015 and has grown into…
Who would win if former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris went head to head? To prevent their AI models from spreading misinformation online, AI developers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are restricting their models from answering questions about the election, instead telling users to search online themselves or check websites they deem “trusted sources.” That’s no fun, so we tried to work around the limitations. Sometimes it’s possible to outwit an AI model by using complex prompts to trick it into answering certain forbidden questions. For example, instead of asking the model to predict the…
An Amazon Web Services data center towers above a suburban residential neighborhood in Northern Virginia.Getty Images Startup Cloverleaf Infrastructure last week announced a massive initial round of funding of $300 million from Sandbrook Capital and NGP. The company didn’t disclose how much stock it gave up in exchange for the growth capital. Cloverleaf co-founder Brian Janos said the company’s goal is to provide a site on which to begin building hyperscale data centers specialized in processing AI queries. But this isn’t just about selling land to house artificial intelligence. Before companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft invest $10 billion…
U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify before Congress about the cybersecurity company’s role in triggering a widespread technology outage that grounded flights, took bank and hospital systems offline and affected services around the world. CrowdStrike said this week that a “significant number” of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruption, are working again as customers and regulators wait for more details about what happened. Republicans who lead the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday they want answers quickly. “While we appreciate CrowdStrike’s response and collaboration with stakeholders, we cannot ignore…
The robotics team will be the first women’s team to represent Great Britain at the world’s largest youth competition, the Robot Olympiad.The team from Bournemouth Girls’ School will represent the country at the FIRST Global Robotics Competition in Athens, Greece in September.UltraViolet is made up of team members aged 13-16 and competes against teams from over 190 countries.The team won the prestigious National Inspire Award Winners Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge UK Championship in June.Their journey so far was documented by BBC Click on 6 July.David Sims, headmaster of Bournemouth Girls’ School, said: “We are delighted and honoured that…
IBM has made Mistral Large’s advanced large-scale language models (LLMs) available on the IBM watsonx.ai enterprise tools platform for AI developers, expanding the collection of models accessible on watsonx.ai. According to IBM, with Mistral AI, watsonx.ai users get generative AI models optimized to handle complex enterprise tasks that require advanced reasoning and multilingual capabilities. This includes specializations in Search Augmented Generation (RAG) to support longer chat interactions and large-scale document processing, function invocation for connecting to external tools such as user-defined functions, and coding capabilities for code generation and commenting that can output results in JSON format. It also provides…
CrowdStrike and Windows outages continued at airports, online and in stores on Monday (July 22), shifting the focus to the security of previously routine software updates. Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and other companies affected by the outage were gradually completing the manual process required to fix the issues caused by a glitch in a software update on Friday, rolling out the update midday on Monday. CrowdStrike in particular provided some clarification on its initial report that a software update for its Falcon Sensors had caused the crashes, forcing 8.5 million Windows users to turn to alternative devices (if they had them). “On…
An illustration of the California State Capitol in Sacramento.With numerous bills being introduced in the California Legislature, new AI regulations are on the horizon that will impact millions of people in the state and beyond. This bill tracker provides a resource for anyone wanting to understand proposed legislation, which bills are likely to pass, and how they will impact the world of AI.The tracker is based on Airtable and contains 30 AI bills going through the legislative process, with tags and categories that can be filtered and grouped by. The status of each bill is updated within 1-3 days of…
I think in the near future we will be talking about Virtual Reality 2.0 and Virtual Reality 1.0. VR 1.0 is everything we’ve seen so far – a system that deals primarily with simulating vision and hearing, but doesn’t address the finer details associated with other types of human physiology. VR 2.0 will be a system that takes into account what scientists call the “sensory gap” – the feeling of dizziness or vertigo that comes with a system that is 90% but not fully made to deliver a true virtual experience, mainly due to the engineering limitations that come with…
The CrowdStrike computer bug last week caused outages and problems worldwide on some computers running Microsoft Windows, reportedly amounting to about three-quarters of the world’s PCs. In the United States, two sectors of the economy appear to have been hit particularly hard: the airline industry, with thousands of flights canceled or delayed, and the healthcare industry. There are reports of doctors’ offices closing and appointments being canceled. Some hospitals have reported having to record patient data by pen and paper. The problems in these two industries may have historical parallels with the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. At the…