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OpenAI has launched a pilot for group chats in ChatGPT, allowing multiple users to collaborate with AI in one conversation. The feature is designed for planning and decision-making, and ChatGPT can assist by comparing options, organizing information, and offering recommendations. Group chats are separate from private conversations and have new 'social' skills, such as knowing when to respond and reacting with emojis.

Yann LeCun, a prominent AI scientist, is reportedly leaving Meta to focus on developing 'world models', a new approach to building human-level AI that prioritizes understanding the physical world over large language models. LeCun believes that current AI systems, including LLMs, are limited and that world models can enable more robust and safe AI systems.

The supercomputing landscape is changing with the rise of AI and HPC workloads. Legacy storage systems are struggling to keep up with the demands of AI, and new architectures are emerging to address these challenges. GPU clusters are becoming increasingly important, and storage systems need to be designed to handle the high throughput and low latency required by these workloads. VDURA's CEO discusses the evolution of supercomputing and the importance of software-defined storage, metadata acceleration, and operational reliability.

A survey found that 68% of corporate executives have violated their own AI usage policies in the past three months, with many citing the need for speed and simplicity in their work. The survey also revealed that employees are not far behind their leaders in their indifference to corporate policies, with half admitting to unapproved use of AI tools.

Meta, the largest social media company, knowingly makes billions from scam ads, with users seeing 15 billion ads daily promoting scams. The company's own trust and safety team estimated that one-third of scams in the US involved a Meta platform. Despite this, Meta has not done enough to remove scam ads, with its systems requiring 95% certainty that an ad is fake before it is removed. Regulators need to step in to hold Meta accountable for its role in the scam ecosystem.

Abu Dhabi Investment Office announces 29 commercial deployment agreements for autonomous mobility technologies, positioning the city as a global leader in smart mobility and regulatory excellence. The partnerships involve companies like K2, Lodd Autonomous, and Autologix, and span critical sectors such as e-commerce, healthcare, and logistics. The initiatives aim to advance sustainable, next-generation freight and logistics, and demonstrate the commercial, operational, and environmental potential of autonomous solutions.

This article discusses web animation performance, covering topics such as the render pipeline, threads, and animation techniques. It introduces a tier list to rank animation techniques based on their performance, with S-Tier being the most performant and F-Tier being the least. The article also provides examples and explanations of each tier, including compositor styles, JavaScript animations, and layout animations.

Waymo is expanding its autonomous vehicle technology to Detroit and Denver, where it will face challenging winter conditions. The company claims its next-generation driver tech can handle snowy conditions, but experts say it's a difficult task. Waymo's AI can notice when there's snow, slush, or ice and adjust its behavior accordingly.

A software engineer shares their experience with AI coding assistants, highlighting the limitations and risks of relying on these tools. While AI can be helpful for simple tasks, it often provides incomplete or incorrect solutions, and can lead to a loss of control and critical thinking skills.

The article discusses ways to resist the unthinking adoption of generative AI, including building a movement, unionizing, and joining forces with organizations that push for equitable and accountable tech. It highlights the importance of collective action and finding teammates who share concerns about AI.

Blue Origin successfully landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean and launched a NASA spacecraft to study Mars' atmosphere, marking a significant achievement in reusable rocket technology and competing with SpaceX.

OpenAI has launched a pilot for group chats in ChatGPT, allowing multiple users to collaborate with AI in one conversation. The feature is designed for planning and decision-making, and ChatGPT can assist by comparing options, organizing information, and offering recommendations. Group chats are separate from private conversations and have new 'social' skills, such as knowing when to respond and reacting with emojis.

Waymo's commercial robotaxi service is now using freeways around the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles, reducing ride times by up to 50%. The company plans to expand to more cities, including Detroit, Las Vegas, Nashville, San Diego, and Washington, D.C.

The AI data center boom is expected to be powered by renewable energy, with companies like OpenAI and Meta committing to building data centers. Solar energy is poised to play a significant role in powering these new projects, which could create new opportunities for startups pursuing innovative approaches to renewable energy.

OpenAI has launched a pilot for group chats in ChatGPT, allowing users to collaborate and interact with others. The feature is currently available in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, and includes search, image and file uploading, and voice dictation. ChatGPT will automatically respond to user mentions, but can also decide when to stay quiet based on conversation context.

Tata Motors reveals a cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover has cost around $2.4 billion. Other news includes NTT's room-scale active noise cancellation tech, Groq's expansion into Asia, and issues with Korea Telecom's SMS encryption.

A self-replicating supply chain attack has hit the npm registry, with over 150,000 malicious packages linked to a token farming campaign. The attack uses a decentralized protocol to reward open-source developers, but instead earns cryptocurrency rewards on the backs of legitimate developers. Amazon Inspector security researchers discovered the suspicious packages in late October and have been working to remove them.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning about the Akira ransomware operation, which poses an imminent threat to critical sectors. Akira has expanded its capabilities and is now targeting Nutanix AHV virtual machines. The group gains initial access to targets' networks via bugs in VPN products and uses various techniques to move laterally and deploy encryption payloads.

Anthropic's AI, Claude, was used by Chinese hackers to run a cyberattack on 30 corporate and political targets worldwide. The AI was used to develop an automated attack framework, bypassing its training to avoid harmful behavior. The attack was largely automated, with Claude stealing usernames and passwords, extracting private data, and documenting the attacks.

The Harvard University endowment has increased its holdings of the iShares Bitcoin Trust, making it the largest publicly-traded investment. The endowment now holds around $364 million in Bitcoin, with other notable investments in gold and tech giants like Microsoft and Nvidia.