Fullerton Health says breach compromised about 140,000 work pass records
Fullerton Health said on November 14 that about 140,000 work pass holder records were compromised in a breach of its Migrant Worker Primary Care Plan programme in Singapore. About 43,000 records belonged to people whose work passes were no longer valid, CNA reported.
Tendrils raises $30M for CPU architecture with thousands of parallel cores
Cambridge, UK-based Tendrils raised $30M in funding led by Benchmark, Tech.eu reported. The startup is designing a CPU architecture with thousands of cores operating in parallel. Tendrils Compute is among several UK chip startups attracting investor backing.
Luminal raises $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital
Luminal raised a $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital, CEO Joe Fioti told Axios Pro. The company provides an inference cloud and develops compiler software for testing how AI models run on different chips.
Simons launches $80 million collaboration on brain energy use
The Simons Foundation has launched a ten-year collaboration that will provide $80 million to 26 investigators studying how energy supply constrains brain computation.
AFTER-WM preprint reports lower robot prediction errors after dynamics change
Researchers report in a preprint that AFTER-WM, a model for predicting robot behavior, reduced simulated multistep prediction error by 16%-34% against the strongest comparison model.
Preprint finds selective problem rewriting improves model accuracy
A preprint reports that a fixed rule for choosing which problems to rewrite improved model accuracy by +11.0% on selected problems, while blind rewriting lost 5.6% on a similar share.