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TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4 million customers’ personal information

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Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations. TransUnion claimed “no credit information

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Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers

Microsoft expands Xbox Cloud Gaming to Game Pass Core and Standard subscribers

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Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is expanding its Xbox Cloud Gaming technology to Xbox Game Pass Core or Standard subscribers, dropping the requirement for the highest tier Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for access to

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Chipolo launches its first rechargeable Bluetooth trackers

Chipolo launches its first rechargeable Bluetooth trackers

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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Device tracker brand Chipolo announced the Loop and Card, two new Bluetooth-powered item trackers that can be recharged instead of requiring users to replace their batteries. The Loop and Card

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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations 

Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your data for AI training

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Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company directed us to its blog post on the policy changes when asked about what prompted the move, we’ve formed some theories

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Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

Microsoft introduces a pair of in-house AI models

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Microsoft is expanding its AI footprint with the release of two new models that its teams trained completely in-house. MAI-Voice-1 is the tech major’s first natural speech generation model, while MAI-1-preview is text-based and is the company’s first foundation model trained end-to-end. MAI-Voice-1 is currently being used in the Copilot Daily and Podcast features. Microsoft

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MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions

Artificial Intelligence /

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors. Following a successful pilot

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OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other’s AI systems

OpenAI and Anthropic conducted safety evaluations of each other’s AI systems

Artificial Intelligence /

Most of the time, AI companies are locked in a race to the top, treating each other as rivals and competitors. Today, OpenAI and Anthropic revealed that they agreed to evaluate the alignment of each other’s publicly available systems and shared the results of their analyses. The full reports get pretty technical, but are worth

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Microsoft Copilot is now a talking blob on Samsung TVs

Microsoft Copilot is now a talking blob on Samsung TVs

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Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant that’s integrated into Windows and Microsoft 365, is making the jump to your living room. The company has announced that select Samsung TVs will now be able to access Copilot to ask questions and receive recommendations via voice chat, with the AI assistant represented on your screen as a talking blob.

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