Improving the workplace of the future

[ad_1] Whitney Zhang ’21 believes in the importance of valuing workers regardless of where they fit into an organizational chart. Zhang is a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Economics studying labor economics. She explores how the technological and managerial decisions companies make affect workers across the pay spectrum.  “I’ve been interested in economics, economic impacts,…

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How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI  | TechCrunch

[ad_1] From tech giants to startups, South Korean players are developing large language models tailored to their own language and culture, ready to compete with global heavyweights like OpenAI and Google.  Last month, the nation launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative to date, pledging ₩530 billion, (about $390 million), to five local companies building…

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HeartCrypt’s wholesale impersonation effort

[ad_1] Over the past year and a bit more, we’ve monitored a constellation of events that share a set of general attributes: Malware impersonating, subverting, and embedding itself in legitimate software applications Position-independent loader code (PIC) injected near package entry points, overwriting the original code Encrypted malicious payloads inserted as an additional resource Use of…

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The state of Intel: What the company’s $5 billion deal with Nvidia could mean for the floundering chipmaker — Investments, capex, and the beating heart of x86

[ad_1] The news was as baffling as it was big: On September 18, Nvidia and Intel announced a collaboration to co-develop multiple generations of data center and PC products. As part of the deal, Nvidia said it would purchase $5 billion of stock in the troubled tech firm. Intel was so dominant in the 1990s…

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The Latest Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Preview is Now the Fastest Proprietary Model (External Tests) and 50% Fewer Output Tokens

[ad_1] Google released an updated version of Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite preview models across AI Studio and Vertex AI, plus rolling aliases—gemini-flash-latest and gemini-flash-lite-latest—that always point to the newest preview in each family. For production stability, Google advises pinning fixed strings (gemini-2.5-flash, gemini-2.5-flash-lite). Google will give a…

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