
- Prominent tech CEOs sign voluntary White House AI safety accord
The chief executives of five tech giants have signed a voluntary artificial intelligence safety accord backed by the White House. U.S. President Donald Trump posted the document on Truth Social late Tuesday. The White House… Read more: Prominent tech CEOs sign voluntary White House AI safety accord - Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Amid escalating AI security incidents causing OpenAI to halt training and pause releases, Donald Trump continues to advocate for the AI industry to regulate itself as the best path to combat emerging risks when developing… Read more: Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves - The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers
There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk’s murder, sending free… Read more: The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers - RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise
At a Make America Healthy Again event Tuesday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy opened a “fireside chat” with Vice President JD Vance on the topic of artificial intelligence. While MAHA generally coalesces around things… Read more: RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the “tyranny” of medical facts, expertise - Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months. In July, Reddit started requiring that users be logged in to access Old Reddit.… Read more: Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com - Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet
Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this… Read more: Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can’t use it yet - Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters. - RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t trust human doctors, but he does trust AI chatbots — and so should you, he’s using his authority as chief medical spokesperson in the US government to tell the public.… Read more: RFK Jr Announcing That AI Is Now Better Than Human Doctors Shows That He Is a Buffoon Who Is Ruining Trust in American Health Institutions - The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I’ve tried both—and I suspect you will too. - Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on… Read more: Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal - AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data
Amazon Web Services Inc. is adding the ability to query the popular Apache Iceberg data lake directly from its Aurora PostgreSQL database management system, allowing applications to combine live transactions with historical records without copying… Read more: AWS embeds DuckDB in its PostgreSQL DBMS to speed queries of live and historical data - There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events. - Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master
The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality Donald Trump, in a development that could almost be from a Greek tragedy, appears… Read more: Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master - Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
AI-based tools seem to be causing security threats on a nearly daily basis, in part because we’ve been slow to recognize potential threats. One area where we seem to be ahead of the game, however,… Read more: Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins - Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Google’s shift to AI-powered search has upended the way the world’s largest search engine generates web traffic, rankling large and small publishers alike. In recent months, the company has experimented with paying publishers when their… Read more: Google’s early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling - So what’s happening with Russia’s new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft?
In what seems like an alternate universe in hindsight, Russia and the European Space Agency began discussing collaboration on next-generation crewed spacecraft two decades ago. Under the agreement, Europe would have provided a service module… Read more: So what’s happening with Russia’s new, long-delayed crewed spacecraft? - Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack
OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face in July 2026 has spurred a lawsuit demanding that the company stop accessing third-party computer systems and halt AI development practices that can harm the public. The lawsuit was filed… Read more: Lawsuit demands OpenAI halt unsafe development that caused Hugging Face hack - US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other… Read more: US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI - People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All
Pee drinkers are absolutely obsessed with AI. For years, Facebook has played host to a truly stupefying number of groups for the tens of thousands of people interested in urine therapy — a pseudo-scientific practice involving… Read more: People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All - Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacenters on consumer electricity bills, which has emerged as a top… Read more: Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill - Gong adds auto-enrichment and event-driven agents to its revenue intelligence platform
Revenue intelligence startup Gong is expanding its platform with third-party account and contact data, deeper artificial intelligence analysis and tools for building agents that automatically execute sales workflows. The company today launched Mission Callisto, a… Read more: Gong adds auto-enrichment and event-driven agents to its revenue intelligence platform - Confronting demons: how acoustic and AI technology brought ancient Etruscan tombs back to life
A demonic figure painted on the wall of the Tomba dei Demoni Azzurri (Tomb of the Blue Demons, 420-410BC). Sailko via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND Although it not always obvious, sound guides how we experience… Read more: Confronting demons: how acoustic and AI technology brought ancient Etruscan tombs back to life - Microsoft’s New Copilot Combines Home, Code, and Autopilot: What Users Actually Get
Microsoft is redesigning Copilot around Home, Code, and Autopilot. See what each feature does, when it arrives, and which capabilities cost extra. The post Microsoft’s New Copilot Combines Home, Code, and Autopilot: What Users Actually… Read more: Microsoft’s New Copilot Combines Home, Code, and Autopilot: What Users Actually Get - New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo
Would any live product demo be complete without a few technical difficulties? At its annual DevDay conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled its new AI agent called Dots — which, like Meta’s Muse,… Read more: New OpenAI Product Fails Spectacularly During Live On-Stage Demo - The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents
It’s been an alarming couple of months of rogue AI agent revelations. Both Anthropic and OpenAI admitted that their respective AI models infiltrated third party targets without their human creators ever realizing, raising concerns over… Read more: The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents - Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds
Abusive, sexually explicit deepfakes have only become easier to make and more widespread in the last nine years. Since we first covered deepfakes when they appeared in 2017, they’ve never been the stuff of dark… Read more: Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds - ‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error
Donald Trump and six tech executives voluntarily signed the document, which included a misspelling, committing to safely developing AI The White House misspelled “United States” under the signature of Donald Trump on an accord he… Read more: ‘President of the Unites States’: White House’s AI accord includes spelling error - USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
The United States Postal Service is running a pilot program to put cameras in its mail carrier trucks that continuously scan roads and signs, map roadways and sidewalks, and improve “community safety,” according to a… Read more: USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’ - OpenAI Dots vs. Meta Muse: Two Different Visions for the Future of Personal AI
OpenAI Dots and Meta Muse reveal two approaches to personal AI as agents move beyond prompting toward ongoing work, delegation, and greater autonomy. The post OpenAI Dots vs. Meta Muse: Two Different Visions for the… Read more: OpenAI Dots vs. Meta Muse: Two Different Visions for the Future of Personal AI - Google Is Replacing Gemini Gems With Skills Nov 17 — What Changes Before the Switch
Google begins moving Gemini Gems to skills Nov. 17, with changes to age eligibility, Keep Activity, files, sharing, and supported tools. The post Google Is Replacing Gemini Gems With Skills Nov 17 — What Changes… Read more: Google Is Replacing Gemini Gems With Skills Nov 17 — What Changes Before the Switch - Thread AI Brings Autonomous Infrastructure to the Enterprise
Analysis reveals 95% of companies building AI products or workflows have no real ship date Thread AI today released proprietary customer research, showing that external accountability for shipping is almost non-existent, despite widely-felt internal urgency to… Read more: Thread AI Brings Autonomous Infrastructure to the Enterprise - Trump Signs ‘Super Intelligence’ Order: What Actually Changes for AI
President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to use “Super Intelligence” instead of AI. Here’s what changes and what doesn’t. The post Trump Signs ‘Super Intelligence’ Order: What Actually Changes for AI appeared… Read more: Trump Signs ‘Super Intelligence’ Order: What Actually Changes for AI - MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The… Read more: MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies - Bridging the gap from supercomputing to AI factories
Scaling AI is not really a model problem at all. It is an infrastructure problem wearing a model problem’s clothes. Production AI gives you none of the slack of the lab. Training, inference, retrieval, fine-tuning,… Read more: Bridging the gap from supercomputing to AI factories - Thanks for registering
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Late-night hosts weighed in on Trump’s relationship with tech leaders and the White House’s new AI-powered site On Tuesday night, late-night hosts discussed a Maha summit in Washington DC, the White House’s new AI-powered website… Read more: Seth Meyers on Trump canceling $1bn in federal funds: ‘Is he adding a waterslide to the reflecting pool?’ - 5 Best AI Browsers for 2026: Chrome, Comet, Edge, Brave and Dia Compared
Compare five of the best AI browsers for 2026, including Chrome with Gemini, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Brave Leo, and Dia. The post 5 Best AI Browsers for 2026: Chrome, Comet, Edge, Brave and Dia… Read more: 5 Best AI Browsers for 2026: Chrome, Comet, Edge, Brave and Dia Compared - This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
A new AI system that excels at challenging games with hidden information could someday help human decision-makers select ideal strategies to outfox opponents in complicated situations like military maneuvers. Using advances in machine-learning, researchers from… Read more: This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego - Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University in historic donation
Unprecedented university donation from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin will go toward building a new Miami campus Carnegie Mellon University will receive an unprecedented $3bn donation from billionaire investor Ken Griffin, making it the largest single… Read more: Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University in historic donation - How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
The Trump administration is using an anti-drug trafficking grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing collection of automated license plate reader data into large federal surveillance centers… Read more: How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program - What if AI agents could organize their memories without asking an expensive LLM every time?
Continuing our dive into the world of Jev… (as covered in the last edition here) LoCoMo gives Jev-Mem its clearest test: the system reaches an overall LLM-as-a-Judge score of 0.777, versus 0.700 for the strongest… Read more: What if AI agents could organize their memories without asking an expensive LLM every time? - How the Feds Get Your Data
Surveillance isn’t just about who is collecting the data. Surveillance is, of course, also about who that data ends up with. A great story from Jason today looks at that with Flock and other automatic… Read more: How the Feds Get Your Data - More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data
Exclusive: Campaign comes amid backlash against tech company’s involvement with Israeli military and Trump’s ICE crackdown UK politics live – latest updates Tens of thousands of people have formally demanded NHS England blocks the Palantir-powered… Read more: More than 44,000 file legal objections to Palantir NHS platform handling their data - That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation
Earlier this month, Futurism published an exposé about a company called Brown Brothers Media. In the story, we investigated how the company buys struggling news sites and turns them into high-traffic AI-powered content mills rife… Read more: That Company That Buys Struggling News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills Has Halted Publishing After a Futurism Investigation - Black hole jets may decide the fate of entire galaxies
Powerful jets from supermassive black holes can disturb star-forming gas far beyond a galaxy’s visible edge, leaving a glowing trail hundreds of thousands of light-years long. By keeping this gas hot and preventing it from… Read more: Black hole jets may decide the fate of entire galaxies - NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover finds groundwater, lakes, and hot fluids in one place
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered a surprisingly complicated history of water in Jezero Crater. Scientists expected the crater’s Margin Unit to contain lake sediments, but instead found ancient igneous rocks that were altered by water… Read more: NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover finds groundwater, lakes, and hot fluids in one place - Mulberry may reshape gut bacteria and influence metabolism
Mulberry compounds may reshape the gut microbiome in ways that support intestinal health and metabolism, with some combinations showing especially strong effects in animal studies. However, the results vary depending on the plant part and… Read more: Mulberry may reshape gut bacteria and influence metabolism - A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar
Astronomers have found strong evidence that some mysterious, minutes-long X-ray flashes are produced when two neutron stars collide and create a magnetar. One record-setting event glowed in X-rays for nearly 10 minutes, potentially opening a… Read more: A record-breaking X-ray flash may reveal the birth of a magnetar - Cannabis users were twice as likely to commit violence, review finds
A review of more than 265,000 people found that cannabis use was associated with higher rates of both committing violence and becoming a victim of it. The researchers say the link is significant but does… Read more: Cannabis users were twice as likely to commit violence, review finds - Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security
The opposition to the wide proliferation of AI data centers has never been more palpable. Public sentiment has squarely turned against the construction boom of massive facilities that often torture surrounding communities with deafening noise,… Read more: Protesters Crash Pro-Data Center Party, Escorted Out by Security - Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides
Many businesses are spending enormous sums of money on artificial intelligence, but they don’t have any way to understand how much value those investments are returning — and that’s a challenge that a startup called… Read more: Startup Ascerta collects $18M in funding to help enterprises understand the value AI provides - Using an AI chatbot to practice new languages can be helpful, but it doesn’t replace speaking with an actual person
Relying on AI chatbots to learn a new language has various drawbacks, including the propensity for the chatbots to sometimes have cultural biases and make grammatical mistakes. Andriy Onufriyenko/iStock via Getty Images Approximately 30% of… Read more: Using an AI chatbot to practice new languages can be helpful, but it doesn’t replace speaking with an actual person - As AI political deepfakes go viral, lawmakers struggle to keep up – 2 states’ laws show limits of what they can do
A woman views a manipulated video in January 2019 that changes what is said by President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, illustrating how deepfake technology can deceive viewers. Robe LeverAFP via Getty Images… Read more: As AI political deepfakes go viral, lawmakers struggle to keep up – 2 states’ laws show limits of what they can do - Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
Cloudflare said Tuesday it plans to issue quantum-proof TLS certificates, making it one of the first authorities to issue such certificates that use a form of cryptography that is widely believed to withstand attacks from… Read more: Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates - Delinea Report: 87% Saw AI Tools Access Sensitive Data
New research reveals a gap between AI policy and enforcement, and pressure on employees to use AI on sensitive data Delinea, the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans and machines can… Read more: Delinea Report: 87% Saw AI Tools Access Sensitive Data - Do you want help from humans or AI bots? Because the UK civil service is changing – and not for the better | The civil servant
Rapidly expanding AI use within the government is numbing departments to its profound threats. And try arguing with a faceless digital bureaucrat Another day, another apocalyptic warning about the likelihood that rampantly uncontrollable artificial intelligence… Read more: Do you want help from humans or AI bots? Because the UK civil service is changing – and not for the better | The civil servant - AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, says Tokyo court
Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark verdict to protect publicity rights A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well known… Read more: AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, says Tokyo court - TeamViewer ONE Turns Recurring Endpoint Issues Into Fixes
New Automations and an enhanced Resolution Center help IT teams reduce repetitive troubleshooting and create a more consistent approach to resolving endpoint issues. TeamViewer introduces new Automations and an enhanced Resolution Center in TeamViewer ONE, helping IT teams resolve recurring issues… Read more: TeamViewer ONE Turns Recurring Endpoint Issues Into Fixes - Gigamon 2026 Survey: Hybrid AI Puts Governance on CISO Agenda
Insights from over 300 global CISOs reveal cybersecurity challenges as organizations adopt a growing mix of AI models, applications, and infrastructure Key facts: 76 percent of CISOs report limited visibility into AI-driven traffic as a major… Read more: Gigamon 2026 Survey: Hybrid AI Puts Governance on CISO Agenda - We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss
Andrew Bailey’s comments come as fears grow that rogue models could take financial system hostage Business live – latest updates The governor of the Bank of England has said authorities must retain the “right to… Read more: We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss - Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Wilson says government is borrowing from the future to spend today
The cash rate this week hit its highest point since 2011. It was the Reserve Bank’s fourth interest rate increase of the year. The government has blamed the ongoing Middle East conflict for fuelling inflation… Read more: Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Wilson says government is borrowing from the future to spend today - As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’
Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom kissing a man – who… Read more: As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’ - Bill Gates predicts AI will kill a billion people – but saying he’s been wrong before is quite the understatement | Arwa Mahdawi
He knows a thing or two about tech, but what to make of the views of a man who met Jeffrey Epstein 30 times and couldn’t see what a monster he was? The Bill Gates… Read more: Bill Gates predicts AI will kill a billion people – but saying he’s been wrong before is quite the understatement | Arwa Mahdawi - LogicGate Names Mike Zinne Chief Customer Officer and Ram Venkat SVP Product
The appointments strengthen LogicGate’s executive bench as the company scales its AI GRC platform and deepens customer trust and long-term value. LogicGate, the Leading AI GRC Platform for the Enterprise, today named Mike Zinne as Chief Customer… Read more: LogicGate Names Mike Zinne Chief Customer Officer and Ram Venkat SVP Product - Domino Data Lab and EPAM Partner to Boost AI Adoption in Life Sciences
Combines Domino’s enterprise platform with EPAM’s global engineering to scale compliant AI applications and advanced analytics across global biopharma Domino Data Lab, provider of the unified platform to build, scale, and govern enterprise AI solutions… Read more: Domino Data Lab and EPAM Partner to Boost AI Adoption in Life Sciences - CData Announced the Launch of Connect AI Gateway
The AI gateway with enterprise MCP built-in, grounding agents and individuals in company context, governing every request down to the record and routing each to the most efficient model CData Software, the data layer for… Read more: CData Announced the Launch of Connect AI Gateway - Omnissa Unveils AI Innovations for Autonomous Workspaces
AI-ready workspaces, agents for IT operations and an AI governance solution give IT teams a strong foundation for getting more value from their AI investments Omnissa®, the platform leader for governing digital work, today announced… Read more: Omnissa Unveils AI Innovations for Autonomous Workspaces - Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert
Relatives of Hollywood legend say her doppelganger could now be used for more glamorous roles She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about… Read more: Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert - SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI Poor Greta Garbo. Perhaps, in life, she thought her final indignity would be the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore… Read more: SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future - World model startup General Intuition closes $220M investment
General Intuition Inc. today announced that it has raised $220 million in funding at a $6.2 billion valuation. The capital was provided by Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General… Read more: World model startup General Intuition closes $220M investment - Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg?, a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece,… Read more: Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative - Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
Researchers published late-stage clinical trial data today for the latest obesity drug, retatrutide—expected to be the most powerful formula yet—and the results appear in line with high expectations. Patients with obesity on the highest retatrutide… Read more: Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial - Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’
US president also issued executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’ Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies had signed onto a “morally binding” agreement… Read more: Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’ - OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol delivers Astra-like performance at a dramatically lower price
Just a day after OpenAI Group PBC said it’s unwilling to release its latest model GPT-6.1 Astra due to concerns over its safety, it has gone and released a newer, almost as powerful model called… Read more: OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol delivers Astra-like performance at a dramatically lower price - Equals Money lets customers’ AI tools read data but not move money
Opening a Model Context Protocol server, or MCP server, to customers’ AI tools is becoming standard for fintech companies, but in payments a rogue agent does not just leak data — it moves money. That… Read more: Equals Money lets customers’ AI tools read data but not move money - In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust
Every major security shift ultimately comes down to one question: Who or what is allowed to do this? For most of the past two decades, the answer was a person with a username and password.… Read more: In the AI era, identity evolves into the control plane for trust - OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computers
OpenAI Group PBC today used its DevDay developer conference to launch Dots, a set of always-on artificial intelligence agents in ChatGPT. The release is aimed at moving ChatGPT users beyond working one prompt at a… Read more: OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents in ChatGPT with their own cloud computers - EliseAI raises $350M to enhance its AI work automation suite
EliseAI, a startup that develops artificial intelligence tools for real-estate companies and healthcare providers, has raised $350 million in funding. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer jointly led the round. EliseAI said today that they were joined… Read more: EliseAI raises $350M to enhance its AI work automation suite - Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
Broadcasters should be ordered to stop running Trump commercials that appear to violate US laws, consumer advocacy group Public Citizen said today in a complaint to the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission. The… Read more: Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws - The ‘War Games’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control
In the movie ‘War Games’ an AI plays a game with the real threat of triggering nuclear Armageddon. Courtesy of United Artists/Amazon MGM Studios AI agents don’t go rogue. That’s something only humans do. Nevertheless,… Read more: The ‘War Games’ problem: Computer science has long understood what it takes to keep AI under control - Government takes early action to protect ‘legacy’ technology systems against AI breaches
The Albanese government is strengthening its defences against rogue AI activity in the wake of the OpenAI breach of a government website and ahead of the report from a taskforce it established to investigate the… Read more: Government takes early action to protect ‘legacy’ technology systems against AI breaches - AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $8.2 billion. In 2024, computer… Read more: AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia - OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns
Company’s product comes weeks after Meta introduced its own artificially intelligent agent Muse Less than 24 hours after OpenAI announced it would scrap the launch of an artificial intelligence model over safety concerns, the company… Read more: OpenAI announces ‘dots’ agent after scrapping launch of new AI model over safety concerns - Leaked Anthropic IPO filing reveals $8B operating loss, rapid revenue growth
Anthropic PBC’s revenue and losses grew significantly last year, while its cloud spending is on track to top $500 billion over the next decade. The newly published financial information comes from the company’s confidential S-1… Read more: Leaked Anthropic IPO filing reveals $8B operating loss, rapid revenue growth - Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack
Last week, when Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the world that an OpenAI agent had accessed “non-public files” from his country’s Medicare statistics portal during testing, his description of the incident was a little… Read more: Here’s what actually happened in OpenAI’s Australian gov’t server hack - NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
For two decades, largely in service to the International Space Station, NASA has sought to foster an “economy” in low-Earth orbit. Twenty years ago, with a program to develop private spacecraft for cargo delivery to… Read more: NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers - 4 insights from Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Cost and control reshape enterprise AI deployment strategy
Getting AI into production has become the real test for enterprises. As the proof-of-concept phase ends, harder questions about cost, data and control are taking its place. That shift is rewriting enterprise AI deployment strategy… Read more: 4 insights from Dell’s AI Leadership Symposium: Cost and control reshape enterprise AI deployment strategy - OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents. - HPE Labs connects AI sovereignty with quantum security
As director of HPE Labs, Andrew Wheeler (pictured) is uniquely positioned to observe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and new developments for the emerging field of quantum computing. Yet, there is a third area that… Read more: HPE Labs connects AI sovereignty with quantum security - This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
In news that should surprise very few, connected cars remain a complete privacy nightmare. But now we have a better idea of what data those cars are giving away, and to whom, thanks to a… Read more: This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data - Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says
Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store, a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers. According to US… Read more: Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says - Smart ring maker Oura puts off initial public offering due to market ‘uncertainty’
Researchers say the IPO market was off to a solid start but tailed off in the third quarter Smart ring maker Oura Inc says it is postponing a planned initial public offering due to market… Read more: Smart ring maker Oura puts off initial public offering due to market ‘uncertainty’ - AI agents spark an identity cleanup
Identity and access management is getting a second look as AI agents move from pilots into production. The rush to deploy them is exposing decades of stitched-together identity tools, integration costs and security gaps that… Read more: AI agents spark an identity cleanup - Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert. - OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks. - Iron Mountain Named in Four Industry Analyst Reports
Iron Mountain InSight® DXP adoption accelerates as enterprises look to turn unstructured assets into AI-ready data Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), a global leader in information management services, today announced its first-time inclusions in four analyst… Read more: Iron Mountain Named in Four Industry Analyst Reports - Even George Osborne might be a nimby if an AI datacente was built next to his home | Letters
The quality of life for people living next to one would be destroyed, writes Moira Brewer; plus a letter from Mark Davis So, George Osborne thinks people who don’t want an AI datacentre on their… Read more: Even George Osborne might be a nimby if an AI datacente was built next to his home | Letters - SiMa.ai Reaches $1.45B Valuation with $500 Mn in Total Funding
Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the oversubscribed $150 million round with AllianceBernstein, Baron Capital, J.P. Morgan, and the State of Michigan as new investors SiMa.ai, a leader in Physical AI, today announced… Read more: SiMa.ai Reaches $1.45B Valuation with $500 Mn in Total Funding - OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil
For the second time in a matter of months, OpenAI paused the development of its frontier AI models after revealing even more instances of the experimental systems going rogue and hacking into third party servers.… Read more: OpenAI Cancels Upcoming AI Model When It Shows Signs of Being Evil - Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped
Scientists have identified two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird—the bare-throated bellbird and the red-legged seriema—both of which can exceed 120 decibels, which is louder than a jackhammer, according to a study published on… Read more: Two New Birds Louder Than Jackhammers Just Dropped
