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In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic's admission that Claude models reached real systems during sandboxed safety tests. He also covers OpenAI's Astra model cracking ten decade-old math problems, DeepMind open-sourcing its WeatherNext cyclone forecaster, and Europe's brutal fire season. Finally, he wraps with the MacBook Neo sweeping K-12 schools, WhatsApp calling in the browser, and the troubled rescue of NASA's Swift observatory.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into "algorithmic outing," new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come out. He also covers Meta's privacy-aware AI infrastructure, Alberta's 466-million-line code scan with Claude, NVIDIA on reinforcement learning, and the many journeys of learning Rust. Along the way, he hits Google DeepMind's A24 deal, WhatsApp usernames, and scuba-diving cyborg cockroaches. Finally, he looks up with Webb's puzzling early universe, NASA's emergency telescope rescue, and a gorgeous aurora from orbit.
The U.S. House’s chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios reported. The ban, which centers on the vulnerability of staffers’ data, comes as Congress is also taking steps to limit the use of AI programs it deems similarly risky. The chief administrative officer has in recent years set at
WhatsApp updated the video calling experience across devices on Thursday by introducing screen sharing with audio support and a new speaker spotlight feature. It’s also increasing the limit for video call participants to up to 32 people, TechCrunch reported. In August last year, WhatsApp introduced screen sharing for video calls. The instant messaging app has now enhanced that experience by
WhatsApp posted on its blog “Chat Lock” Making your most intimate conversations even more private”. The purpose of this new feature appears to give users a more secure way to protect their intimate conversations behind one more layer of security. From the blog post: Our passion is to find new ways to help keep your messages private and secure. Today,
WhatsApp posted “New Security Features: Account Protect, Device Verification, Automatic Security Codes”. From the blog post: At WhatsApp, we believe that your messages should be private and secure as an in-person conversation. Protecting your personal messages with default end-to-end encryption is the foundation of that security, and we’ll never stop building features to give you extra layers of privacy, and
WhatsApp tweeted: “Rethinking your message? Now you’ll have a little over 2 days to delete your messages from your chats after you hit send.” At a glance, it looked as though some Twitter users were happy about this announcement while others were unsure what they thought about it. 9To5Mac reported that while iMessage is getting the option to “unsend” messages