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Agentic AI opens door to new ID challenges: Report
Rubrik Zero Labs contends the rise of identity driven attacks ‘is changing the face of cyber defense.’
Maryland Leverages AI Partnership to Update Public Services
A new multi-agency effort is intended to bring AI tools to residents, to simplify access to benefits, reduce child poverty and improve housing access. The endeavor will let staffers embed...
What are the clues that ChatGPT wrote something?
The Washington Post analyzed 328,744 publicly shared messages from the chatbot in English to find patterns in how it uses language.
Cybersecurity stocks slide after Anthropic reveals first fully AI-led hack
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos reports on what Anthropic calls the first documented AI-orchestrated cyberattack — and why it’s sending shockwaves through the cybersecurity sector.
Will AI mean better adverts or ‘creepy slop’?
Advertisers are using AI to personalise adverts but not everyone agrees that’s a good idea.
Will Patchwork of State AI Laws Inhibit Innovation?
State-level enthusiasm for AI regulation has surged in the absence of a unified, national approach, but some state leaders worry that a complicated mosaic of rules will be an obstacle...
VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups
The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features and just about everything else.
New AI tool could cut wasted efforts to transplant organs by 60%
Machine learning model predicts whether donor is likely to die within the timeframe that liver remains viable
Updated App Review Guidelines now available – Latest News
The App Review Guidelines have been revised to support updated policies and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below: 1.2.1(a): This new guideline specifies that creator apps must provide...
An OS for the Body? Microsoft Inks First Brain Implant Partnership
Inbrain will apply Microsoft’s agentic AI and cloud tech to its brain-computer interface, which could facilitate faster treatment based on what’s happening in the brain at that moment.
Meta AI Context Boost, Valve Reveals Mini PC And VR Headset, ElevenLabs Opens Voice Market
AR glasses gain real time visual context, Valve prepares new PC and VR hardware, and ElevenLabs launches a licensed voice market.
Purdue and Google aim to grow a strategic AI partnership
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Building on previous collaborations, Purdue University and Google are charting a path toward deeper collaboration in artificial intelligence — one that would weave together…
Chinese Hackers Successfully Used Anthropic’s AI for Cyberespionage
‘These attacks are likely to only grow in their effectiveness,’ Anthropic warns after catching a Chinese state-sponsored group using its AI to automate at least 80% of their hacking campaign.
‘South Park’ addresses AI-generated videos and copyright with Totoro, Trump and Bluey
‘South Park’s’ ‘Sora Not Sorry’ episode grapples with copyright infringement in AI-generated content by featuring characters like Totoro and Bluey, and a plotline with President Trump.
2025: The Year Context Became King (And How Developers Are Wielding It)
Let’s be honest: in 2025, the breathless pace of AI model updates has started to feel… well, a bit incremental. We’re still getting improvements, but the massive, paradigm-shifting leaps of...
AMD Financial Analyst Day Charts A Confident Roadmap For The AI Era
The AI era is accelerating, and AMD appears increasingly well-positioned to play a larger role in shaping it with bold targets set at its Financial Analyst Day 2025.
Cadence Debuts Its First System Chiplet Silicon To Accelerate Physical AI Development
Chiplet-based design has triggered a shift in the semiconductor industry and Cadence’s system chiplet silicon can act as the backbone for assembling heterogeneous SoCs.
If User-Generated AI Content Comes to Disney+, the Possibilities Are Exciting and Terrifying
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed plans to allow for user-generated AI content on Disney+, which has exciting but also terrifying possibilities.
The New Essential Leadership Trait
AI rewards range, not specialization. The future belongs to leaders with Renaissance minds.
AI Gains Ground in Special Ed, Raises Legal and Ethical Concerns
A new report by the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology urges schools to balance efficiency gains with privacy, legal requirements and ethical considerations when utilizing AI in the IEP development process.
Measuring political even-handedness in Claude
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Hackers use Anthropic’s AI model Claude once again
The company says the hackers were backed by the Chinese state.
Spotify tests AI audiobook recaps, expands playlist Shuffle controls
Spotify announced a feature that summarizes audiobooks up to the point where the user left off, and new Shuffle controls for Premium users.
Anthropic details how it measures Claude’s wokeness
Claude is told to avoid providing “unsolicited” political opinions.
Part II: Competing in the age of embodied AI (Analyst Angle)
The global economy is shifting from software intelligence to embodied AI — where algorithms meet physical production.
Robotic kitchen in a box cooks, cleans and serves 120 meals an hour
Meet the AI kitchen that never tires, Circus’ CA-1 robot cooks, serves, and cleans at REWE’s new ‘Fresh & Smart’ outlet.
Private 5G and generative AI – a dream match at the industrial edge?
Private 5G and generative AI are redefining Industry 4.0 – but do they truly depend on one another? This (long) discussion explores how they overlap and diverge.
Deutsche Telekom Q3: Focus remains on AI, fiber
Deutsche Telekom’s Q3 blends steady growth with record fiber momentum and an aggressive push into industrial AI, including a new Nvidia-backed data center.
Chinese state-sponsored group used Anthropic’s Claude model for AI-orchestrated cyberattack
CNBC’s MacKenzie Sigalos reports on news regarding AI.
Harvard/MIT AI Unicorns Reveal Key Trends In This New Paradigm
Harvard/MIT’s startup supercluster is rapidly producing AI-era unicorns—often led by under-25 founders—with record growth rates, capital efficiency, and blue-chip backers
Artificial Intelligence Successfully Adjudicates Clinical Events in CV Trials
The hope is using AI to judge outcomes will ease the high cost and complexity of running big clinical trials, say researchers.
Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
——————————————————————- Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms ——————————————————————- We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space.
Four Cofounders Of Popular AI Coding Tool Cursor Are Now Billionaires
The startup nabbed a $29.3 billion valuation in a $2.3 billion funding round Thursday, minting its four 20-something founders as billionaires.
We’ve developed a new way to train small AI models with internal mechanisms that are easier for humans to examine and understand….
We’ve developed a new way to train small AI models with internal mechanisms that are easier for humans to examine and understand. Language models like the ones behind ChatGPT have...
AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human composition
Google adds agentic AI checkout to shopping
Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered shopping features.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
OpenAI’s new LLM exposes the secrets of how AI really works
The experimental model won’t compete with the biggest and best, but it could tell us why they behave in weird ways—and how trustworthy they really are.
Make boards responsible for AI failures, banking regulator suggests
Singapore’s financial regulatory authority has floated a tough new AI risk management regime that could become a model for other countries.