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DuckDuckGo AI hallucinates Trump's death after AI data poisoning campaign
It’s well known that AI chatbots can be prone to wild hallucinations. The DuckDuckGo AI chatbot is the latest glaring example, asserting that President Donald Trump died of rabies on June 7th.
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What happens when hackers steal AI? US lawmakers push new reporting rules
A Texas lawmaker on Thursday has proposed new AI incident reporting rules that would require AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI to report critical security incidents – as well as dangerous model behaviour – to Washington within seven days.
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Researchers hijack 26,000 AI agents using fake skill marketed on Instagram
AI skills are rapidly becoming the standard way to extend AI agents, but their popularity is also creating a new supply-chain risk that attackers can exploit through trusted marketplaces, researchers have shown.
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Cate Blanchett launches a tool to protect people's likenesses from AI
Acclaimed Australian actor Cate Blanchett has introduced a free tool that helps people prevent their identities from being used by AI without consent.
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Anthropic AI restrictions spark lawsuit against Trump administration
A US legal technology company on Tuesday sued the federal government, challenging a directive by President Donald Trump’s administration that resulted in the artificial intelligence firm Anthropic halting access to two of its most advanced models for users worldwide.
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AI-assisted law firm claims first court victory in England
For the first time, an artificial intelligence law firm has won a case in court. Although a human presented the case, AI handled all the pretrial legal work.
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Anthropic accuses Alibaba of industrial-scale AI extraction as China unveils Mythos rival
In a bombshell geopolitical accusation, Anthropic says Chinese tech giant Alibaba has conducted an "industrial-scale" campaign to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude AI models – just as Beijing unveiled its own answer to the company's powerful vulnerability-hunting system, Mythos.
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Anthropic's Mythos model found flaws in classified US systems within hours, AP reports
Anthropic's Mythos AI model reportedly identified vulnerabilities in classified US government systems during a restricted testing exercise, the Associated Press reports.
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Masayoshi Son says AI will help humans evolve, denounces bubble talk as “blasphemy”
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said that talk of a bubble is an insult to AI and announced he wouldn’t retire until the company reaches artificial superintelligence, or ASI, which he defines as being 10,000 smarter than a human.
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By participating in this viral trend, you help train AI where it struggles the most
The viral trend where people repeat the same phrase in different tones may play into the hands of big tech companies, whose AI models struggle with emotion recognition.
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AI-induced job losses could spark job crisis but pave way for basic income, enamored investor claims
According to famed investor Carson Block, AI could give birth to the so-called “underclass,” people not working at all but still living relatively comfortably on a universal basic income. The problem is that for this to happen, we’d need a huge job crisis.
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The world's top intelligence alliance: AI could supercharge cyberattacks within months
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology is poised to supercharge offensive hacking capabilities and urgent action is needed to face up to the threat, US, British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand officials said on Monday.
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Workday faces claims its AI screened out disabled and older job applicants
Workday must face claims that its popular AI-powered human resources software weeded out job applicants at other companies in ways that violated California law and a federal ban on discrimination against workers with disabilities, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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Working in these professions? AI may be coming for your job, Dutch agency warns
Due to evolving technology, the labor market is constantly changing. As a result, job opportunities are changing as well. Tasks such as writing and translating are increasingly being taken over by artificial intelligence (AI).
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Trump signs quantum order as US races to secure future encryption
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to overhaul the National Quantum Strategy – a directive to “supercharge” US quantum innovation and strengthen efforts to protect future encryption from emerging cyber threats.
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BP, 7-Eleven, Walmart sued for allegedly using AI to boost California gas prices
California drivers sue BP, Walmart, 7-Eleven and other gas station operators, accusing them of using an AI-powered pricing tool to coordinate higher gasoline prices and overcharge consumers.
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UK cop accused of using AI to cook up evidence sparks rape conviction review
Following last week’s allegations that a detective used AI to draft criminal justice documents, prosecutors are now reviewing several rape convictions linked to cases he’s worked on.
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Nadella scoffs at AI giants as Microsoft may host China’s DeepSeek
Having long played the role of elder statesman in the AI race, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had enough, it seems. In a new interview, he offers blistering criticism of a small group of companies that have dominated the often gloomy conversation.
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Microsoft researcher uses "Age of Empires" goats to make a point about AI consciousness
A Microsoft researcher has built a functioning neural network inside Age of Empires II using digital goats to prove that AI can run on anything. The absurdist experiment highlights how easily human-like chat interfaces trick users into believing AI is truly sentient.
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Cloudflare gives AI agents temporary accounts to deploy websites without human logins
As AI agents enter every corner of internet infrastructure, global cloud computing services provider Cloudflare has launched temporary accounts, giving agents more independence when launching web projects.
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