Author: aristotle
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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. The hack involved a homemade Faraday cage, a microwave, and a lot of trial
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How AI Scribes and CDSS are Shaping the Future of Healthcare?
AI in healthcare is causing a revolution in how clinicians document, analyze, and make decisions. Two key breakthroughs leading this change are AI-powered medical scribes and Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS). These technologies are boosting productivity and have an impact on patient outcomes for the better, changing the healthcare scene. AI Scribes: Redefining Clinical Documentation
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Why the Introduction of AI in Long-Term Care Takes a Long Time
AI is making significant strides in many industries, but its adoption in long-term care facilities remains slow and challenging. While AI has the potential to revolutionise patient care through fall detection, bedsore prevention, and sleep quality assessments, the road to widespread deployment has been anything but fast. This is an issue of great importance for
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What Donald Trump’s Win Will Mean for Big Tech
On Wednesday, the chief executives of the leading Big Tech companies congratulated the US president-elect. Sundar Pichai (Alphabet), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Tim Cook (Apple), Andy Jassy (Amazon), and Satya Nadella (Microsoft) have all sparred with Donald Trump before, but they were quick to get behind him as their companies face a fresh four years of
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3 Steps for Retailers to Generate and Capture Value from AI Investments
The retail sector is growing and increasingly competitive as companies vie for consumers’ attention and wallets. According to the National Retail Federation, core sales rose 3.2% year-over-year in the first half of 2024, and total sales are forecast to eclipse 2023 by between 2.5% and 3.5%. In a tight market, retailers are looking for a
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Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back
If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Perplexity, an AI search engine that has courted controversy by lifting liberally from news articles and skirting web-scraping rules, this week promised to serve as a reliable source
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The $50 Million Movie ‘Here’ De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI
On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here , a $50 million Robert Zemeckis–directed film that used real-time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood’s first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects. The film adapts a 2014 graphic novel set primarily in
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Metas Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster Bigger Than Anything Else
Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require vast amounts of energy. Meta executives on Wednesday sidestepped an analyst question about energy access constraints in parts of the US that have hampered companies’ efforts to develop more powerful AI. According to one estimate
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OpenAIs Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway
On Saturday, an Associated Press investigation revealed that OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool creates fabricated text in medical and business settings despite warnings against such use. The AP interviewed more than 12 software engineers, developers, and researchers who found the model regularly invents text that speakers never said, a phenomenon often called a “confabulation” or “hallucination”
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Fighting AI with AI in the Modern Threat Landscape
It’s not exactly breaking news to say that AI has dramatically changed the cybersecurity industry. Both attackers and defenders alike are turning to artificial intelligence to uplevel their capabilities, each striving to stay one step ahead of the other. This cat-and-mouse game is nothing new—attackers have been trying to outsmart security teams for decades, after