Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said last week hackers had stolen digital tokens worth around $1.5 billion, in what researchers called the biggest crypto heist of all time.
Bybit CEO Ben Zhou said the crypto was taken from a “cold wallet” – a digital wallet usually stored offline and so supposedly more secure – that was used for ether tokens.
Blockchain research firm Elliptic said the hack was more than double the last-biggest crypto heist and “
“I had a bit of a harsh reality check today, and felt like it’s important to share with whoever is listening,” model and actress Hunter Schafer said in an eight-minute video posted on TikTok last week.
Speaking in a rare direct-to-camera clip, the Euphoria actress held up her new passport and reflected on what it said about
Anthropic released on Monday its Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, which it says returns results faster and can show the user the “chain of thought” it follows to reach an answer. This latest model also powers a new coding tool called Claude Code that can perform some development tasks autonomously.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers an “extended thinking” mode that engages in a more detailed “chain of thought” reasoning but takes longer to generate a response. For simpler questions it eschews this m
This morning, Apple announced its largest spend commitment to date: A whopping $500 billion that’s set to be invested in American manufacturing, engineering, and AI efforts over the next four years.
The major news comes just days after Apple CEO Tim Cook met with President Donald Trump to discuss the tech giant’s current manufacturing practices a
A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle.
Their mission was to advance AI for humanity’s benefit.
More than a decade later, the
In 2024, Amazon introduced its AI-powered HR assistant, which helps managers with performance reviews and workforce planning. Similarly, Tesla deployed AI personas to assist in real-time production monitoring and supply chain optimization. These advancements s
Lore isn’t just for games like The Elder Scrolls or films like The Lord of the Rings—online, it has evolved into something entirely new.
The Old English word made the shortlist for Oxford University Presss’ 2024 Word of the Year (though it ultimately lost to brain rot). Oxford defines lore as “a bod
Ben Sweeny, the salesman-turned-comedian behind that online persona Corporate Sween, says that bosses should waterboard their employees.
“Some companies drown their employees with boring surveys and useless questionnaires,” he proclaims in a satirical video posted to LinkedIn a few months ago. “I drown my employees with two to three gallons of water, an incline table, and a hand towel.”
Though the clip may seem racy for LinkedIn, a social network that’s earned
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Andrew Brodsky is a management professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also CEO of Ping Group and has received numerous awards, including being chosen by Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors of 2023.
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