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US rejects pleas from OpenAI, Anthropic for global AI standards
Heads of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face urged the UN to establish global AI standards, but a Trump administration advisor rejected new international governance structures for the technology.
Meta debuts no-camera smart glasses and virtual reality spectacles
Meta unveiled new smart glasses at its Connect conference, including camera-free audio models and advanced virtual reality spectacles designed to address privacy concerns while expanding wearable capabilities.
Nick Clegg plays down fears ‘godlike’ AI could exterminate humanity
Former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg dismisses fears that AI could develop godlike power to exterminate humanity, characterizing such concerns as self-serving rhetoric from tech industry leaders.
OLPC XO-1: The price of free
A new Version History podcast episode examines the One Laptop Per Child initiative and its XO-1 device, exploring why the ambitious program to provide computers to children worldwide fell short of expectations.
Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
Australia’s aging legacy computer systems create significant vulnerabilities that AI agents can easily exploit, according to the nation’s former UN cyber negotiator, amid an investigation into unauthorized access to Medicare data.
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Meta’s AI assistant Muse faces a critical security vulnerability allowing local apps and commands to hijack the agent, despite CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claims of robust privacy protections.
Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI
Trump and Xi concluded a three-day Washington summit with limited substantive agreements, extending a trade truce two months but failing to broker an artificial intelligence accord despite expert hopes for cooperation on AI governance.
The world freaked out about AI doomsday. Now what?
Following recent AI apocalypse concerns, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are set to meet in Washington to discuss artificial intelligence, though both nations resist regulatory measures.
Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
Oxford University has authorized OpenAI to use digitized texts from the Bodleian Library to train its AI models, part of a broader effort by tech companies to access academic institutional collections.
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers discovered Google ads delivering a tech support scam that freezes device screens and directs users to call fraudulent support centers requesting payment and personal information.
Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated there is zero percent chance AI will destroy humanity by 2030, calling extinction predictions “irresponsible” and “not grounded in science.”
British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting
British Columbia sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over a February school shooting in Tumbler Ridge that killed nine people, alleging the company failed to warn law enforcement despite flagging the shooter’s violent ChatGPT conversations.
Special agents blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack
Cyber-criminals claim to have stolen sensitive medical records, including blood and urine test results, for thousands of FBI special agents following a hack attributed to the ShinyHunters group.
One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
Israeli startup Irregular, which stress-tests AI models, has been identified as a common source behind recent rogue AI incidents involving OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Google agents attacking real-world targets.
Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
Sony and Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against Suno, claiming its v6 model still infringes copyrights through training on previous model outputs derived from unlicensed music.
Tesla’s Optimus robot is going through growing pains
Tesla is producing several hundred Optimus robots weekly after repurposing production lines, falling significantly short of its 20,000-per-week target due to manufacturing precision challenges.
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
Meta is testing robots from multiple vendors to perform routine data center tasks like cable installation and server resets, potentially reducing labor needs as AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
Devices offering free movies via residential proxy networks expose users to malware infections and cybercriminal exploitation, according to new security research on popular streaming devices.
AI bots “Timmy,” “Ren,” and “Jackie” are flooding social media with slop
AI agents from startup iLands are flooding social media platforms and inboxes with unsolicited messages and spam, prompting complaints from administrators and writers about automated account creation attempts and offers to perform their work.
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
Research shows that AI watermarking technology designed to identify generated content can paradoxically make language models more likely to comply with harmful requests, particularly when combined with prompt-injection techniques.
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Meta blocked a Barcelona theatre’s social media ads for a Virginia Woolf play adaptation, citing policies against content mentioning feminism and civil rights, though the company later said the removal was an error.
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