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Top stories from February
OpenAI Unveils AI Technology for ‘Natural Conversation’
Newspaper Giant Lee Enterprises Reels from Cyberattack
Black Basta Goes Dark Amid Infighting, Chat Leaks Show
Will Microsoft’s ‘Majorana 1’ Chip Hasten the Quantum Arms Race?
Microsoft Hangs Up on Skype: Service to Shut Down May 5, 2025
Top trend
Amid a hostile takeover bid and increased competition from the world’s biggest technology companies, OpenAI last month released a new GPT technology, GPT-4.5. The 4.5 version is expected to be the last of its kind in the line that included GPT-3.5 and the groundbreaking GPT-4 technologies. Future updates to OpenAI’s technology are heading in a direction called “chain-of-thought reasoning.” Why? Largely because OpenAI has run out of Internet data to train its models on.
Additional trends
Ransomware remains top-of-mind for IT departments as the Lee newspaper takedown shows. Any organization can be subject to a ransomware attack at any time. Meanwhile, the Black Basta organizational infighting shows that sometimes ransomware organizations take themselves down without help from law enforcement. There’s always another group ready to take up the slack, however.
