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Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
AI-generated doctors are spreading dubious health advice on TikTok, gaining millions of views and posing significant public safety risks, medical experts warn.
Jeff Bezos and UK government invest in £2bn British startup CuspAI
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and the UK government invested in Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI, which aims to discover new materials for chipmakers and other industries.
For a few seconds, AusAlert blared around parks, libraries and cinemas – but some didn’t get the alert at all
Australia’s first nationwide emergency alert test reached 94% of targeted cell towers, though some users didn’t receive notifications due to device incompatibility, outdated software, or poor coverage.
Aussie gov’t tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers
Australia’s government disabled thousands of functioning test routers after completing a broadband measurement program, despite volunteers noting the devices could be reflashed and reused, raising e-waste concerns.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Google awarded $250,000 for disclosure of a Linux KVM vulnerability enabling guest virtual machines to escape and gain root access to host systems, one of two high-severity flaws discovered this week.
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
Microsoft’s patch for a Windows Defender zero-day vulnerability may inadvertently allow attackers to fill hard drives with data, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw.
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Researchers discovered that Microsoft failed to revoke 11 defective firmware components for over a decade, allowing trivial bypasses of Secure Boot, the operating system’s critical firmware protection mechanism.
Could AI be conscious?
Leading AI researchers and philosophers are raising questions about whether advanced AI systems could be conscious or moral patients, with major implications for how we should treat them.
Harry Potter publisher to receive millions in Anthropic copyright settlement
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury will receive millions from a $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over use of their works in training chatbots.
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and...
Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk replied with glowing praise for the AI lab. He said that such a trick was...
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure. In 2023, he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion....
Shared API keys expose AI agents at 69% of enterprises, new VentureBeat research finds
Share one API key across five AI agents, and a single compromised agent inherits the reach of all five. The attacker immediately benefits from the accumulated permissions of every workflow that the key touches. The forensic trail goes cold at the credential level...
Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April, can engage in...
Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups
Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage startups. As the founder and managing partner at Precursor Ventures, he’s invested in hundreds of companies and has seen massive shifts in the markets that require founders to get creative and do...
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating...
Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck
Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos, has built its business around the idea of simplicity and customization. Start with a $24,950 unpainted gray electric truck with 205 miles of range — and none of the technological flair — and let the buyer customize it...
Enterprises using multiple AI models are underestimating failure rates by 2.25x
A team routing queries across a coding specialist, a logic specialist, and a generalist model assumes each will cover the others' blind spots. A new study evaluating 67 frontier models from 21 providers shows that assumption is mathematically flawed — and the flaw has...
Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe
Block has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims brought by 46 U.S. states alleging that its peer-to-peer payments app, Cash App, failed to adequately protect users from fraud. State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising...
The enterprise AI challenge nobody solves with code generation alone
Presented by SAPGenerating code with AI is fast, but getting that code to run reliably inside a large enterprise, integrated with live systems, governed for compliance, and maintainable over years requires foundational work that most organizations underestimate. While...
Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
At a time when AI backlash and data center protests are making headlines, Anthropic’s Claude is rolling out a new feature that subtly makes the case for why you should keep using it. On Thursday, the company introduced “Reflect,” a built-in dashboard that lets you...
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These days, any business leader understands how hugely important it is to have a successful Instagram account. Even though this social media platform may have originally started as a fun way for friends to share cool pictures, it’s now become one of the most powerful...
Here’s How 3D Printing Is Changing Business Operations
3D printing is an incredibly innovative technology that will change manufacturing by allowing just about anyone to produce goods or items. More importantly, the tech will revolutionize the entire world of business thanks to a series of benefits, not the least of which...
Enterprise IoT: The Future is Here, Now What?
Today's network of interconnected devices continues to grow in both size and scale. With everything from refrigerators to security cameras to baby monitors being developed with a wireless internet connection, these IoT (Internet of Things) devices are quickly bringing...
Compliance Within the Gaming Industry Means You’ll Be Secure
Maintaining security within any establishment is not always easy. In fact, the deeper we go as a society into the realm of technology, the more it opens up new and innovative ways for people to steal, cheat, and manipulate a number of situations and industries. One...