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Alphabet announces $80B capital plan to accelerate AI infrastructure growth
Google's parent company, Alphabet, plans to raise $80 billion to fund its massive buildout of AI infrastructure.
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Anthropic expands access to its Mythos AI system for 200 organisations across governments and industry
Anthropic on Tuesday said it was planning a wider rollout of its artificial intelligence that has caught the attention of government and financial institutions around the world for its ability to find software vulnerabilities.
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Study blames remote work rather than AI for young college graduates not getting hired
Many analysts have attributed the recent labor market challenges faced by young college graduates to generative AI. However, a study has found that businesses are actually reluctant to hire young workers for “remotable” jobs.
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Bernie Sanders says Americans should own half of big AI companies
Former US presidential candidate and senior senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, has found another area of inequality to fight against. He now claims that Americans should own 50% of US-based AI giants.
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Florida becomes first US state to sue OpenAI over alleged links to school shooting case
Florida sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, accusing the company of misrepresenting the safety of its ChatGPT platform, which the lawsuit said has harmed children by providing information to school shooters, offering guidance on self-harm and addicting young users.
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Developers furious they can’t just burn their AI credits on GitHub Copilot anymore
Unhappy that there’s now a limit on how many AI credits they can burn on Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, developers are threatening to stop eating at the all-you-can-eat AI buffet. But they could just think more carefully about how to use their allowances.
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Check Point warns: AI disinformation, fake Reuters and Fox News sites threaten US midterms
Hackers are already preparing themselves to disrupt the integrity of the upcoming midterm elections. However, they’re not targeting voting machines or ballots. Rather, they're focusing on manipulating public opinion.
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Stop outsourcing your mind to AI, expert says
Still asking AI for health advice, relationship struggles, or investment opinions? You shouldn’t.
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Hackers trick Meta AI into stealing Instagram accounts
Instagram users scramble to recover hundreds of rare and highly valuable accounts after hackers on Sunday found a way to exploit Meta’s AI-powered account recovery systems and hijack accounts in real time.
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Anthropic files for IPO before OpenAI in blockbuster AI market showdown
AI giant Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US initial public offering, the company said on Monday, edging ahead of rival OpenAI in a closely watched race to reach public markets.
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The Thai lie: viral "drag queen drug bust" turns out to be AI-generated fake
The story of a team of cops dressed up as drag queens for a drug raid has been uncovered as an AI-generated hoax, Thai police have admitted, highlighting the difficulty media face when "disinformation" comes from an official source.
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OpenAI opens GPT-5.5 Cyber to British banks amid Mythos access battle
OpenAI has offered 9 major UK banks access to its cybersecurity-focused GPT-5.5 Cyber model, as lenders remain unable to test their systems using Anthropic’s rival Claude Mythos despite concerns about the security of aging banking code.
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Claude reportedly bills a client $500M for one month of AI use
As more companies begin to question the cost-benefit ratio of using AI, this one has a much bigger problem to deal with. A report claims that the company may have been charged $500 million for one month of Anthropic’s Claude.
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South Korea approves AI assistant with strict privacy rules as Europe delays AI laws
Even as Europe wrestles with AI regulation, South Korea has approved an AI assistant from Naver that can use years of user activity to personalize its responses, as long as the company follows a strict set of privacy rules.
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German tax authority may train AI on citizens’ unaltered data
The German government is mulling allowing new AI systems to be trained on unaltered citizens’ data, despite it currently being prohibited by European privacy regulations.
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SoftBank announces AI investment of up to €75B in French data centers
SoftBank Group, a Japanese international investment holding company, is willing to invest up to €75 billion to develop and operate 5GW of AI data center capacity in France.
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AI fraud is the export-control loophole that Washington missed
Washington has spent 2 years arguing over chips and export policy, but the bigger vulnerability is account creation. Advanced AI systems struggle to tell a legitimate operator from a coordinated swarm, or a human from an automated agent, and the gap has turned AI fraud from a consumer protection issue into a national security problem.
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YouTube finally gets serious about cracking down on AI slop
Google-owned YouTube finally seems to be getting serious about AI slop on its platform. A couple of updates don’t seem like a lot, but the changes are actually pretty significant.
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UK plans AI age checks for asylum seekers
The UK’s Home Office will start using an AI tool to estimate the age of asylum seekers claiming to be children from next year.
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Microsoft will unveil new homegrown AI models next week
Microsoft will unveil a suite of new homegrown AI models next week at its annual "Build" conference for developers in San Francisco, including a coding model to boost the usage of its GitHub Copilot tool, the Information reported on Thursday.
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