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Shadow AI adds $670K to breach costs while 97% of enterprises skip basic access controls, IBM reports

July 31, 2025
Shadow AI is the $670,000 problem most organizations don’t even know they have. IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, released today in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals that breaches involving employees’ unauthorized use of AI tools cost organizations an average of $4.63 million. That’s nearly 16% more than the global average of $4.44 million. The research, based on…
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Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

July 30, 2025
As demand for large-scale AI deployment skyrockets, the lesser-known, private chip startup Positron is positioning itself as a direct challenger to market leader Nvidia by offering dedicated, energy-efficient, memory-optimized inference chips aimed at relieving the industry’s mounting cost, power, and availability bottlenecks. “A key differentiator is our ability to run frontier AI models with…
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New AI architecture delivers 100x faster reasoning than LLMs with just 1,000 training examples

July 29, 2025
Singapore-based AI startup Sapient Intelligence has developed a new AI architecture that can match, and in some cases vastly outperform, large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, all while being significantly smaller and more data-efficient. The architecture, known as the Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM), is inspired by how the human brain utilizes distinct systems for slow…
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Anthropic throttles Claude rate limits, devs call foul

July 29, 2025
Anthropic announced today it would introduce weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers, claiming that some users have been running Claude 24/7, with the majority of usage centered around its Claude Code product. Overall weekly limits will begin on August 28 and will be in…
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Meta announces its Superintelligence Labs Chief Scientist: former OpenAI GPT-4 co-creator Shengjia Zhao

July 28, 2025
Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher and co‑creator of GPT‑4, as the Chief Scientist of its newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). The announcement was made Friday by Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, noting Zhao will lead the lab’s scientific agenda alongside him and Alexandr Wang, the former CEO of Scale AI who Meta recently brought onboard as Chief AI…
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