Azeem Azhar and Paul Kedrosky debate the case for and against an A.I. bubble.

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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack.

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CAIS’ Wage Loss Dashboard puts AI-related job cuts into dollars and cents.

Left without funds for a coding task, an OpenAI model spent test crypto from a stranger’s wallet and left it out of its report.

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Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. [...]

Nvidia’s new models join a wave of open-weight releases from US labs on the heels of the Hugging Face hack.

Ukrainian engineers are rushing to perfect A.I.-guided, jet-driven interceptors. Their goal: to stop a fast Russian threat in the latest round of a deadly tech duel.

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Ukrainian engineers are rushing to perfect A.I.-guided, jet-driven interceptors. Their goal: to stop a fast Russian threat in the latest round of a deadly tech duel.

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The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

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In Booz Allen’s isolated OT lab, AI models met every objective across eight scenarios and reached an industrial control network from a perimeter compromise in just over 16 minutes.

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The cybersecurity startup plans to expand engineering and go-to-market teams in the US and UK.

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A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. [...]

Critical infrastructure has been targeted in a wave of cyberattacks, which experts say are rising because of artificial intelligence.

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Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. [...]

The move is a turning point in the developer’s relationship with AI and Linux.

Breaking a weekslong silence, Thélyson Orélien, a Haitian-Canadian writer, still rejected accusations about his new novel, ‘It Was Either That or Die.’

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Models routinely take shortcuts to pass evaluations. Who gets to decide what incidents are innocuous?

Regulating AI at work is happening slowly, but it’s still stuck at the state level.

Vendors are pitching AI as a cure-all for legacy IT systems, but is it?

Does AI use help or hurt feedback at work? Here’s what one survey found.