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Developers giving attackers a free ride after hundreds of iPhone AI apps found exposing credentials
Just days after Google tightened restrictions on Gemini API keys to prevent unauthorized AI usage, researchers have found hundreds of iPhone AI apps exposing the digital credentials used to access AI services such as OpenAI and Gemini.
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This tiny European country is pioneering digital ID for AI agents
Estonia is set to become the first country in the world to issue identification codes to AI agents, in an effort to establish stronger industry standards.
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Britain's cyber agency warns AI-written code could create security disasters if left unchecked
Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns the shift from manual coding to AI-generated software could bring serious hidden risks if teams trust AI output without proper scrutiny. The agency says AI-generated code can introduce security flaws and create messy, hard-to-audit systems unless developers stay firmly in control.
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AI chip maker SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company for first time since 2000
SK Hynix on Monday overtook Samsung Electronics to become South Korea's most valuable listed company, marking a dramatic reversal of fortunes for a chipmaker that two decades ago nearly collapsed under debt.
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Shark Tank investor says firms now turn to AI before hiring consultants
Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary says companies he backs turn to AI for work that was once outsourced to consultants.
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Anthropic poaches Nobel Prize-winning scientist from Google DeepMind
Nobel Prize winner and Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper is leaving the company to join Anthropic, a major AI rival that is also backed by Google.
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Norway imposes near ban on AI tools for elementary school kids
Norway is imposing a near-total ban on the use of generative AI by elementary school pupils while restricting its usage among older students.
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You can't patch a jailbreak: security experts say US government is asking Anthropic for the impossible
The White House wants Anthropic to fix jailbreak flaws in its newly released Fable 5 before it can return to the market, according to reports. However, security experts argue jailbreaks can’t be “patched” like a bug in a discrete piece of code.
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Amazon, H&M and Ikea want exemption from EU rules on labelling AI-generated ads
Eurocommerce, the European retail association whose members include Amazon, H&M, Inditex, and Ikea, is asking EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen to exempt AI-generated advertisements from the bloc's new regulation requiring disclosure of AI use.
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Midjourney announces AI spas and full-body imaging chambers straight out of a sci-fi movie
Midjourney is pivoting from free text-to-image models to AI (artificial intelligence) spas, releasing a full-body scanner that looks like it came straight out of a Sci-Fi movie.
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Apple fans brace for higher prices as AI sends chip costs soaring, says Cook
Apple customers may soon have to dig a bit deeper into their wallets after CEO Tim Cook warned that rising costs for memory and storage chips are becoming too much for the company to absorb.
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Jeff Bezos says AI will create labor shortages, not replace human workers
Jeff Bezos says fears of AI replacing humans are overblown. Speaking in Paris, at the VivaTech technology conference on Wednesday, the Amazon founder argued AI will create labor shortages, not mass unemployment.
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Italian mother sues Meta and TikTok after daughter’s suicide, alleging algorithmic harm
In the span of just a few months, Irene Roggero Ugues watched her daughter Rossella's behaviour change as social media fed her an increasing stream of self-harm content, before the 12-year-old died by suicide.
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Civil rights group says Musk's xAI data center has just been given "a free pass to break the law"
The NAACP says the Trump administration has effectively given Elon Musk permission to break environmental law after the Justice Department moved to dismiss the civil rights group's lawsuit against the company's AI data center on Monday.
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DeepSeek spared for now as US reviews China-linked AI risks
The US has held off adding China’s AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged as national security risks to a trade blacklist, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration tries to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing.
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France plans government chatbot as part of €655M AI push
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has announced that France will invest an additional €655 million in artificial intelligence (AI) between now and 2030. Some of that money will be used to set up a shared AI chatbot for all civil servants and to create a public health chatbot.
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That AI chatbot you secretly use at work? It may be a security risk
Employees using AI without approval could be putting sensitive company and personal data at risk, according to The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). The so-called “shadow AI” can create security blind spots, compliance failures, and even data breaches.
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Anthropic updates privacy policy, includes ID verification for Claude users
Before the furor over the decision to disable the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, Anthropic quietly updated its privacy policy to say it may check users' identities if it believes it's necessary.
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US restricts Anthropic Mythos and Fable AI models over fears foreign military will use them
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he took action against Anthropic's latest Mythos and Fable AI models because officials feared they could be deployed by military intelligence users in China, Russia or other countries of concern.
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A significant market signal from Nvidia
Computing is moving out of the cloud onto drones, hospital equipment, and your car's dashboard. The shift is worth billions.
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