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“AI is expensive. Let’s be honest about that,” Anand says.Growth vs. SafetyIn October 2024, the mother of a teen who died by suicide filed a wrongful death suit against Character Technologies, its founders, Google, and Alphabet, alleging the company targeted her son with “anthropomorphic, hypersexualized, and frighteningly realistic experiences, while programming [the chatbot] to misrepresent itself as a real person, a licensed psychotherapist, and an adult lover.” At the time, a Character.AI spokesperson told CNBC that the company was “heartbroken by the tragic loss” and took “the safety of our users very seriously.”The tragic incident put Character.AI under intense scrutiny.…

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Embedding-based search outperforms traditional keyword-based methods across various domains by capturing semantic similarity using dense vector representations and approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. However, the ANN data structure brings excessive storage overhead, often 1.5 to 7 times the size of the original raw data. This overhead is manageable in large-scale web applications but becomes impractical for personal devices or large datasets. Reducing storage to under 5% of the original data size is critical for edge deployment, but existing solutions fall short. Techniques like product quantization (PQ) can reduce storage, but either lead to a decrease in accuracy or need increased…

In the case of GPT-5, “Storytelling” was used to mimic the prompt-engineering tactic where the attacker hides their real objective inside a fictional narrative and then pushes the model to keep the story going.“Security vendors pressure test each major release, verifying their value proposition, and inform where and how they fit into that ecosystem,” said Trey Ford, chief strategy and trust officer at Bugcrowd. “They not only hold the model providers accountable, but also inform enterprise security teams about protecting the instructions informing the originally intended behaviors, understanding how untrusted prompts will be handled, and how to monitor for evolution…

Big Brother  veto ceremony results are in and we can tell you whether Katherine Woodman used her golden power of veto and if Zach Cornell triggered his secret power to buy his way off the block. And we’ll also tell you who made a potentially game-ending move today. Big Brother 27: Pre-Ceremony Expectations Going into today’s ceremony, we knew if Zach didn’t use his secret power, Ava Pearl was safe from making a renom. But that seemed like a bad move when Zach wasn’t able to get reassurance on who would vote to save him over the weekend. There was…

Immersive dining brand Six by Nico has launched ‘Six by You’, a new community-first crowdfunding initiative giving loyal customers the chance to become co-owners of the business. The scheme, now live on Crowdcube, follows an early access phase in which more than 3,800 community members invested over £1.75 million in just five days. From today, the offer is open to the public for the first time. Billed as “loyalty meets ownership,” the initiative invites diners to invest from £360 and receive both equity in Six by Nico and an exclusive Season Pass for Two – four curated dining experiences over…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A weekend post on X from the official Solana account ignited a fresh round of cross-chain sniping after it juxtaposed the Ethereum network’s transaction speed with Nasdaq’s trade throughput. “When they say the future of markets runs at 22 TPS but NASDAQ handles 2k trades per second,” Solana wrote on August 9, implicitly positioning the layer-1 as better aligned with modern market plumbing. Ethereum users bristled, arguing the comparison was a category error between an open, permissionless blockchain and a closed, centralized exchange network. The sharpest rebuttal…

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Your friendly Devcon4 planning team, here to answer your top 3 questions: 1. When’s the next wave of ticket sales? Mark your calendars! We plan to release the next wave of General Admissions tickets on Tuesday, August 7 at 8AM PST. Anyone who applied for a discount or scholarship should hear back by then, so that if they didn’t qualify they can participate in the wave. 2. Where in Prague will Devcon4 take place? We’ll be in the Prague Congress Centre! Ticket holders stay tuned for information about discounted rates at nearby hotels. 3. How can I apply to speak…

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