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Napoleon’s 217-year-old coded message ‘cracked by AI’ (opens the original)
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A coded letter carrying a message from Napoleon Bonaparte to one of his senior generals has been cracked by AI after 217 years. The contents of the letter, sent by Eugène, Napoleon’s stepson, on the emperor’s instructions, had remained a mystery since it was sent to Auguste de Marmont in 1809. However, Carter Church, an AI engineer at cybersecurity company SentinelOne, said this week he had used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra system to decrypt and transcribe the message for the first time. The letter cont
Napoleon’s 217-year-old coded message ‘cracked by AI’ - AOL (opens the original)
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A coded letter carrying a message from Napoleon Bonaparte to one of his senior generals has been cracked by AI after 217 years. The contents of the letter, sent by Eugène, Napoleon’s stepson, on the emperor’s instructions, had remained a mystery since it was sent to Auguste de Marmont in 1809. However, Carter Church, an AI engineer at cybersecurity company SentinelOne, said this week he had used OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra system to decrypt and transcribe the message for the first time. The letter cont
Nvidia to hand investors record $150bn after AI profit boom - AOL (opens the original)
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Nvidia has revealed plans to hand investors $150bn (£113bn) in the biggest share buyback in history. Jensen Huang, the chipmaker’s chief executive, said Nvidia’s board had approved the record-breaking increase to its buyback programme, financed by the fruits of the AI boom. Nvidia is the world’s biggest company with a valuation of $5.4tn. Shares rose by almost 2pc in pre-market trading on Monday after the buyback was announced. Buybacks involve companies purchasing large numbers of their own sha
The 27-year-old who warned that AI could ‘kill us all’ faces intense scrutiny (opens the original)
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A warning from Jacob Coxon, an AI employee, that the technology could “kill us all” appeared to shock the world into action this week. But the statement has raised questions about Coxon’s motives. The 27-year-old British safety researcher quit his job at Claude developer Anthropic on Wednesday and said that AI companies were “gambling with our lives”. His comment was soon followed by Evan Hubinger, a senior Anthropic researcher, who warned there was more than a 10 per cent chance that AI would w
Company | Google News, Analysis, Announcements and Results | The Age (opens the original)
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A warning from British safety researcher Jacob Coxon shocked the world into action this week. But the statement has raised questions about his motives. The ATO’s decision to seek billions in tax revenue from tech giants could further inflame tensions with Washington. When residents stopped high-voltage concrete poles in their tracks, they exposed a multi-tiered regulatory vacuum – and raised an urgent question about who holds the power in our rush towards building data centres. Big AI companies
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