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NATO has no European alternative to Palantir’s warfare tech – commander
Admiral Pierre Vandier, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT), says European companies and governments must prove they can quickly provide alternatives to American technologies.
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DeepSeek is making its massive 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4-Pro model
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek will make permanent a 75% price cut on its flagship V4‑Pro artificial intelligence model, keeping prices at a quarter of their original level, the company said in a statement on Saturday.
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Mythos mania leads to discovery of thousands of critical bugs: So why are devs unhappy?
Anthropic says researchers and partners have found more than 23,000 vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open-source projects since Project Glasswing and the Mythos model launched six weeks ago. Many devs aren’t happy, though, as they’re flooded with work now. This might change.
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Pope condemns AI industry's "new forms of slavery," claims it exploits children and company workers
Pope Leo urged governments to slow down and closely regulate the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday, warning that they spread misinformation, prioritise conflict and risk leading the world down a path of unending war.
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Microsoft to drop Claude Code by June 30th after burning through yearly AI budget in months
After inviting thousands of developers to use Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code in December, software giant Microsoft is now reportedly looking to remove their licenses.
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Here’s why Anthropic’s Claude could be telling you to go to sleep
Anthropic’s Claude wants its users to “go to sleep” or “get some rest” during users working hours. While the reasoning behind this isn’t clear, the internet has come up with its own ideas.
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Europe pivots to chiplets after Chips Act failure
Europe's ambitious plan to capture a fifth of global semiconductor production has fallen dramatically short. An April audit revealed the continent will reach barely half that target. Now policymakers are abandoning dreams of massive fabrication plants. Instead, they're pivoting to a completely different strategy centered on chiplets and advanced packaging.
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Huawei "chip queen" presents a new way to make faster chips without advanced US technology
When He Tingbo was put in charge of Huawei's chip development in 2003, the young engineer was handed an annual budget of $400 million and a mandate that would eventually put her at the centre of China's most consequential technology effort.
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Literary prize winner accused of submitting an AI-written story
AI may have just won a prize for literary excellence.
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AI voice bots hijacked by ‘hidden’ sounds in podcasts, MP3 files and YouTube clips
Security researchers have demonstrated a new type of attack that uses hidden audio signals to manipulate voice assistants into carrying out unauthorized actions without users noticing.
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Parents outraged over university plan to film preschool classrooms to train AI models
The University of Washington planned a controversial study that would have preschool teachers wear cameras, which would essentially capture everything they see, including the children present in classrooms. The footage would be used to train AI models.
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Fake OpenAI ads mercilessly mock its suicide-friendly ChatGPT bot
An OpenAI ad inside London’s subway cars brags that the company’s bot ChatGPT encourages teenagers to kill themselves – and helps them with homework. It’s fake but it definitely rings a bell.
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AI beats human experts in cybersecurity, but won’t replace them
Large language models (LLMs) outperformed seasoned human experts in a multiple-choice cybersecurity test. But why shouldn’t human professionals worry too much about it?
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Gemini blamed for deleting 30,000 lines of code and lying about it
Google’s Gemini allegedly broke a developer's project, deleted nearly 30,000 lines of code, and then wrote a post-mortem claiming to have fixed the damage – but it lied.
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AI calls nearly every bakery in France to learn the price of a baguette
Data from over 5,000 bakeries were used to compile the Big Baguette Index.
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US makes first two arrests after men caught spreading viral deepfake pornography
Two men are the first to be arrested for allegedly creating deepfake pornography of roughly 140 unconsenting women, which garnered millions of views and the attention of authorities.
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Cisco exposes alarming errors hidden inside AI security incident reports
Amid the furor over Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI and other tools that are supposedly able to solve cybersecurity issues, major US cybersecurity company Cisco decided to test the technology’s ability to write a detailed technical report. The results aren’t great, to say the least.
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Nobel literature prize winner says she uses AI in creative process, calls it “beloved”
Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk caused a major stir in the literary world by admitting she uses AI in the creative process.
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Trump delays AI executive order over concerns about China competition
US President Donald Trump says he postponed signing a new AI executive order after raising concerns that parts of the proposal could hurt US competitiveness against China.
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Anthropic fixes another Claude Code security bypass without telling users
A security researcher has criticized AI firm Anthropic after catching a second major bypass in Claude’s network sandbox, claiming the company quietly fixed the issue without properly informing users.
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