The price of the most important raw material feeding the latest artificial intelligence boom is collapsing fast. The raw material in question is the processing power of the large language models, or LLM, that underpin services such as ChatGPT and the new chat-style responses Microsoft recently showed off for its Bing search engine. Days later, OpenAI released a new service to let developers tap directly into ChatGPT, and slashed its prices for using the technology by 90 per cent. Read More...
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U.S. seizes website selling malware that stole computer data
U.S. authorities said on Thursday they seized an internet domain that was selling malicious software criminals used to steal data from and take control of victims’ computers. The seizure of the site, worldwiredlabs dot com, was conducted by federal authorities in Los Angeles as part of an international law enforcement effort, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The site sold NetWire, a type of malware called a ‘remote access trojan’ (RAT), which is “a sophisticated program capable of targeting and infecting every major computer operating system,” the statement said.
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