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- Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to de...
- Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabiliti...
- Agentic security is the billion-dollar challenge for some clever startup to solve High time to stop kicking the security can down the road, investor tells The Reg
- Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone???? Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a ...
- AI boom could leave an e-waste trail that wraps 6 times around Earth Report says estimates focused on GPUs miss the mountains of power, cooling, and networking gear destined for scrap
- The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding t...
- Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake From Waterfox to LibreWolf and Pale Moon, there's a browser for almost every Mozilla dissenter
- Anthropic decides to support OpenAI's markdown instructions spec Devs cheer relief from compatibility headache
- Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K The Rust compiler remains unperturbed by the antics of the LLM
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scrapi...
- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
- Virginia governor wakes up to fact datacenters have become political cancer Executive order puts the kibosh on NDAs, limits permitting, and calls for stiffer environmental protections
- Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI Slinging coffee and waiting tables ain't just for liberal arts grads any more, say Census Bureau economists
- IT orgs grapple with observability tool sprawl Individual teams with their own tools are often siloed, leading to visibility and incident response issues, an Enterprise Management Associates report found.
- Skills gaps, not compute, block enterprises from reaping full AI gains IT workers are saving hours each week with AI tools, but most say training for safe and effective use is still lagging, according to TrustedTech.
- FedEx levies fees on US imports from Canada, Europe and others The demand surcharges, which also include higher fees for China-to-U.S. volume, will take effect as parcel shippers gear up for peak season.
- FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.
- Claude Code revamps projects so you can work and pay in parallel Running multiple Claude sessions at once means less waiting around to hit your usage limit
- Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center c...
- In the Loop: P&Ps (and M&Ms) The SEC’s compliance program rule is a seemingly small thing that can signify big problems. A new risk alert warns industry to tighten things up.
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts Agentic exploits for the win (again)
- Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the stat...
- North Korea's fake job interviews infected 30,000 devices WaterPlum recruiters used bogus coding tests to backdoor jobseekers and raid more than 7,000 crypto wallets
- What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and oth...
- FBI: Fake cop and government impersonation scams cost victims $1.6B AI, fake uniforms, and mock offices help crooks sell the con
- Longtime Christmas decor retailer files for bankruptcy Gordon Brothers Inc. — which operates Christmas Central, Christmas.com and more — filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection just ahead of peak season.
- On signs Mbappé as it preps entry into soccer The superstar, who signed with Nike as a child, will help the Swiss sneaker brand do battle in a sport dominated by Nike and Adidas.
- Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to acces...
- Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode Legacy web apps have guaranteed shelter only through 2029, and Redmond warns modernization can take years
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