Romantics believe that love can conquer all, transcending time, space, and reason. But earlier this week, there was a highly unusual romance scam case where ‘space’ entered the picture, quite literally. CBS News reports that an elderly woman in Japan was conned by a man posing as a stranded astronaut. After building the relationship, the scammer cheated the victim out of a million yen (~$6,700) to fund his "need of oxygen."
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Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models. The proposed settlement, filed September 5, comes after months of litigation that could change how AI companies acquire and manage data for model training.
The class action was led by authors Andrea Barta, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson, and accused Anthropic of
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An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it's mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo Show devices, which he said he "never" uses, exceeded 4 GB of data usage in 24 hours.
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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says that Intel’s chipmaking tech still isn’t up to snuff — at least not for the Snapdragon X. In an interview with Bloomberg published September 5, Amon said that Intel “is not an option today,” but left open the possibility for a future partnership, adding “we would like Intel to be an option.”
It’s a short but pointed comment that lands hard in the middle of Intel’s planned foundry turnaround. The company
Broadcom this week announced that it had signed an agreement to supply $10 billion worth of AI data center hardware to an undisclosed customer. The hardware includes custom-designed AI accelerators tailored for workloads specific to the client, as well as other gear from the company. It is widely rumored that the customer in OpenAI, which reportedly intends to use the AI processors for inference workloads, and the sheer scale of the order could amount to several million AI processors.
As always, Broadcom isn
Anthropic has updated its terms of service to block access to its Claude AI models for any company that’s majority-owned or controlled by Chinese entities, regardless of where those companies are based.
The company says this decision is about “legal, regulatory, and security risks” and ensuring that “authoritarian” regimes do not have access to its cutting-edge models.
Remember when choosing a gaming CPU was simply a decision that revolved around which Intel CPU to buy? If you cast your mind back to the previous decade, Intel was the undisputed king of gaming CPUs, its dominance so absolute it seemed unshakable. AMD, meanwhile, was struggling. So, Intel eventually became a default choice for many people looking to put a gaming PC together.
But then, like a bolt from the Red, AMD's Ryzen arrived on the scene
Gaming laptops may not offer all of the power of a desktop, but the systems coming out today are far more capable and efficient than they used to be, all the while packing some beautiful displays that would otherwise be considered an extravagant purchase for a setup. We've spotted a great deal on such a laptop — Acer's Predator Helios Neo 16S AI on sale at Best Buy for just $1,599 , marking $300 off