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Alex Hughes

Alex Hughes

Alex Hughes is a freelance journalist who has spent years covering the worlds of tech and science for brands including TechRadar, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, BBC Science Focus and T3. He is proud to say he bought into Bitcoin when it was valued at $14,000. He's less proud that he sold it at $16,000. He is now trying to make up for that with his undying commitment to Ethereum.

Stories by Alex Hughes

  • Artificial intelligence. Image: Decrypt/Shutterstock

    AI Could Become 2,000 Times More Efficient by Copying the Brain: Study

    AI systems, like ChatGPT or Claude, are known for their intensive energy usage. They need to store data in one place and then process it elsewhere, constantly moving it back and forth. It’s a problem which could now be fixed with new research. A team of physicists from Loughborough University have designed a device that can process data that is changing over time directly inside the hardware. Traditional systems have relied on software-based methods to do this in the past. Brain-inspired chip d...

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    State-Sponsored Hackers Using Popular AI Tools Including Gemini, Google Warns

    Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is sounding the alarm once again on the risks of AI, publishing its latest report on how artificial intelligence is being used by dangerous state-sponsored hackers. This team has identified an increase in model extraction attempts, a method of intellectual property theft where someone queries an AI model repeatedly, trying to learn its internal logic and replicate it into a new model. Our new Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) report breaks down ho...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Alex Hughes
  • AI and healthcare. Image: Shutterstock/Decrypt

    AI Chatbots Giving ‘Dangerous’ Medical Advice, Oxford Study Warns

    AI chatbots are fighting to become the next big thing in healthcare, acing standarized tests and offering advice to your medical woes. But a new study published in Nature Medicine has shown that they aren’t just a long way away from achieving this, but could in fact be dangerous. The study, led by multiple teams from Oxford University, identified a noticeable gap in large language models (LLMs). While they were technically highly advanced in medical understanding, they fell short when it came to...