Month: March 2025

AI now ‘analyzes’ LA Times articles for bias

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Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.” He said those articles may also get a set of AI-generated “Insights,” which appear … Read more

President Warming Up His Pen to Sign Resolution to Kill IRS Crypto Rule If Passed

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The White House is signaling a likely approval from President Donald Trump if a congressional resolution hits his desk that would rescind a crypto Internal Revenue Service rule approved just before he returned to office. Trump’s senior advisers will recommend he sign the Congressional Review Act resolution into law, according to a Tuesday statement posted … Read more

Google’s March Pixel Drop adds AI-powered scam detection and live location sharing with friends

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Google on Tuesday announced new software updates for the Pixel phones as part of its “Pixel Drop” program for March. Pixel Watches and all Android devices are also receiving some new features with this release. The most notable parts of the update include using AI to detect scams in messages and calls, better categorization in … Read more

Google Messages is using AI to detect scam texts

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Google Messages is introducing an AI feature that aims to help protect Android users from text message scams. The new AI-powered scam detection tool was announced today alongside other new features, including live location sharing in the Find My app for Android users and features specifically for Pixel owners like multicamera streaming support and new … Read more

XRPTurbo Introduces AI Agent Integration On XRP Ledger, Aiming To Expand Ripple Blockchain Utility

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In the evolving landscape of blockchain technology, XRPTurbo is emerging as a novel platform seeking to bring advanced AI automation to the XRP Ledger (XRPL). While the XRP blockchain is already known for its fast and low-cost transactions, XRPTurbo’s approach focuses on enhancing the XRP ecosystem with on-chain and off-chain agents capable of streamlining tasks … Read more

Beyond Party Lines: Securing America’s Crypto Innovation Edge

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The United States is undisputedly the leader of global innovation. From technology, to agriculture, to finance, we stand alone. We have retained this position not because we force innovators to adopt our values, but because we allow entrepreneurs, who hold these values, to build in the United States free from government interference and excessive regulations. … Read more

Hunters Announces New AI Capabilities With Pathfinder AI For Smarter SOC Automation

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Boston and Tel Aviv, United States, March 4th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Pathfinder AI expands Hunters’ vision for AI-driven SOCs, introducing Agentic AI for autonomous investigation and response. Hunters, the leader in next-generation SIEM, today announced Pathfinder AI, a major step toward a more AI-driven SOC. Building on Copilot AI, which is already transforming SOC workflows with LLM-powered investigation … Read more

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’

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Calls for WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg to step down from his leadership role have increased in recent months amid his controversial fight and legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. Mullenweg not only intends to stay, he’s also thinking about how he plans to manage succession planning. He doesn’t want to pass … Read more

Bubba AI, Inc. Is launching Comp AI To Help 100,000 Startups Get SOC 2 Compliant By 2032

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San Francisco, California, March 3rd, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–With the growing importance of security compliance for startups, more companies are seeking to achieve and maintain compliance with frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001 & GDPR. Bubba AI, Inc. is building a comprehensive solution for these organizations to easily integrate compliance workflows and build their own customized processes through … Read more

Cohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-class

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Cohere for AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing image captions, answering questions about photos, translating text, and generating summaries in 23 major languages. Cohere, which is also making Aya Vision available for … Read more

Accelerate AWS Well-Architected reviews with Generative AI

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Building cloud infrastructure based on proven best practices promotes security, reliability and cost efficiency. To achieve these goals, the AWS Well-Architected Framework provides comprehensive guidance for building and improving cloud architectures. As systems scale, conducting thorough AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews (WAFRs) becomes even more crucial, offering deeper insights and strategic value to help organizations optimize … Read more

Dynamic metadata filtering for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases with LangChain

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Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) feature that connects large language models (LLMs) to internal data sources. It’s a cost-effective approach to improving LLM output so it remains relevant, accurate, and useful in various contexts. It also provides developers with greater control over the LLM’s outputs, including the ability … Read more

8 Reasons a Strategic Crypto Reserve Is a Bad Idea

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One might think that virtually all Bitcoiners would be thrilled about the notion of the U.S. government acquiring BTC (and perhaps a basket of other cryptoassets) and effectively ratifying it as a global asset of consequence. However, I count myself among the few holdouts who don’t see the development as positive for either Bitcoin or … Read more

Donald Trump wants to delete ‘climate’ from federal websites — here’s how you can track the changes

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The Trump administration has been hacking away at federal government websites, taking down information about climate change and anything deemed “woke.” Now, there’s an online tool you can use to track the changes and find missing information. Researchers initially developed the Federal Environmental Web Tracker to document similar changes during the first Trump administration, and … Read more