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Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t seem likely to be seriously used,” Sara Beery, a computer vision researcher at MIT, told TechCrunch. “I’m not sure that there is demand for this type of hypothesis-generation system from the scientific community.” Google is the latest tech giant to advance the notion that AI…

As regulatory reporting challenges intensify, central banks around the world are increasingly turning to RegTech and SupTech to bolster their supervision capabilities.A 2024 survey by Central Banking highlights the growing trend among financial authorities to adopt these advanced solutions to streamline operations and improve oversight.The survey included 13 central banks and two supervisory authorities from various global regions, providing a broad perspective on the adoption of these technologies. The distribution of participants is as follows: Americas with five participants (33%), Asia Pacific and the Middle East with three each (20% each), and Africa and Europe with two each (13.3% each).Key…

Before cofounding CoreWeave, CEO Michael Intrator worked at asset managers with strategies in the natural gas and carbon credit markets.Bruno de Carvalho/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Cloud computing startup CoreWeave’s three cofounders—Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee—and board member Jack Cogen are now billionaires, Forbes estimates, according to information revealed about their stakes and private market sales in the company’s initial public offering prospectus filed Monday. CEO Intrator, Chief Strategy Officer Venturo and Chief Development Officer McBee own 15%, 9% and 7% of CoreWeave’s shares, respectively, while Cogen owns 5%. CoreWeave hasn’t yet priced its public stock offering, but…

5 ChatGPT prompts to keep your coaching clients focused on their goals getty You want the best for your coaching clients. You dream of changing their lives through your work. Nothing feels worse than watching them drift off track between sessions, losing the momentum you’ve built together. In an ideal world, you’d be by their side 24/7. But that’s not possible. What if you could create systems that work even when you’re not around? These prompts will transform how you support clients and drive them toward real results. Copy, paste and edit the square brackets in ChatGPT, and keep the…

A network of North Korean fake IT workers has been creating personas on GitHub to obtain remote engineering and full-stack blockchain developer positions in the US and Japan, threat monitoring firm Nisos warns. The GitHub personas, which are reusing matured GitHub accounts and portfolio content, claim to be in Asia, and some of them appear to be employed at small companies. The network employs the same tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) previously associated with North Korean fake IT workers, including their claims of experience, accounts on multiple employment platforms, digitally manipulated photos, and the use of the same email addresses…

Britain’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said on Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for an investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. “Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s commercial policy, and instead exerts a high level of material influence over that policy,” the CMA wrote in its decision. “In other words there is no change of control giving rise to a relevant merger situation.” The CMA began investigating Microsoft’s partnership with…

The US Justice Department announced on Tuesday that two Venezuelan nationals were arrested and charged recently over their role in an ATM jackpotting scheme. In ATM jackpotting attacks, an ATM is hacked by installing a piece of malware on its hard drive or by replacing the drive with an infected device. The malware gives the attacker control over the ATM and causes it to dispense cash without the need to target a specific bank account.  The latest suspects identified and arrested by US authorities for conducting ATM jackpotting are David Jose Gomez-Cegarra, 24, and Jesus Segundo Hernandez-Gil, 19, both of…

Makers of the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound are cutting prices for people without insurance.Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that it will drop prices 23% for all doses of Wegovy. The new monthly price of $499, down from $650, takes effect immediately.Novo said the new pricing is available to both the uninsured and people who have insurance that doesn’t cover the weight-loss drugs.Last week, Eli Lilly said it would cut the monthly price of its starter dose of Zepbound to $349. The U.S. drugmaker also is making larger doses available for $499 through its self-pay program.Patients start taking…

A ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for an attack on Indian engineering firm Tata Technologies, threatening to leak 1.4 terabytes of data allegedly stolen from the company. The data appears to have been stolen in an incident that the subsidiary of Tata Motors disclosed in a regulatory filing with the Indian National Stock Exchange at the end of January. “The company has become aware of a ransomware incident that has affected a few of our IT assets. As a precautionary measure, some of the IT services were suspended temporarily and have now been restored,” Tata said (PDF) at the time.…

Wordwatch has announced the appointment of William Davenport as its new Managing Director.With his extensive experience in the sector, specifically through his 12-year tenure at Business Systems Ltd, William is poised to drive Wordwatch’s strategic growth initiatives. His prior role as Chief Sales Officer saw him significantly enhance the brand’s market presence through key client acquisitions and the development of Wordwatch’s dedicated channel partner program.Wordwatch specializes in integrating voice and digital communications data to streamline compliance management and reduce regulatory risks. The firm is at the forefront of helping regulated organisations modernise their compliance infrastructure, particularly as market demands and…