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Small AI startups are suddenly getting Pentagon meetings and contracts
Small defense industry artificial intelligence startups are suddenly fielding calls from generals, combatant commanders and deep-pocketed investors, after the souring relationship between the Pentagon and its once-favored AI vendor, Anthropic, reinforced the need to diversify and increase the number of AI providers for the military.
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Alibaba rolls out 10,000-chip AI cluster as US-China compute race heats up
Alibaba has launched a 10,000-chip AI computing cluster powered by its in-house Zhenwu AI processors, significantly expanding its ability to train and deploy large-scale artificial intelligence models.
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Meta rolls out Muse Spark, its new personal AI model
Meta is rolling out Muse Spark, its first AI model from Superintelligence Labs, to power a more personal Meta AI across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and smart glasses.
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Companies are doing this one thing with AI and it's making employees completely lose trust in leadership
It’s perhaps an interesting sign of the times that the latest Edelman Trust Barometer found that companies were actually the most trusted institutions of our age. A scarcely believable 78% of respondents said that they trust their employer. How does that level of trust square with an AI age in which so much of what we see and read is artificially generated?
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AI is breaking bug bounty programs by finding vulnerabilities faster than humans can fix them
Bug bounty programs that have kept the internet secure for over a decade are buckling under the weight of AI-generated vulnerability reports. HackerOne has paused its Internet Bug Bounty program, Google is rejecting AI-assisted submissions, and the Linux Foundation just secured $12.5 million in emergency funding as AI tools find security flaws faster than human maintainers can fix them.
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Milla Jovovich creates MemPalace AI memory tool with “perfect score” on benchmark, but devs aren’t buying it
An unlikely Hollywood A-lister has collaborated with the CEO of Bitcoin Libre to create a free AI memory tool on GitHub that claims to be the best for long-term memory.
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What AGI? ChatGPT can’t even set a timer
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it may be a year before ChatGPT can set a timer. That’s not very good optics for a company building superintelligence.
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Senior engineer quits Google, cites concerns about AI military use
Dave Kitchin, a senior software engineer at Google, has publicly announced departing the company due to ethical objections to cooperation with the United States military.
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Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing app Grab says AI will help it fight rising fuel costs
Southeast Asia's top ride-hailing and delivery firm Grab believes artificial intelligence-led products and services will help it drive growth and navigate challenges such as affordability and rising fuel costs in the wake of the war in Iran, company CEO Anthony Tan told Reuters.
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Anthropic scrambles to fix Sonnet 4.6 and Claude AI models after days of multiple outages
Anthropic is investigating issues with some of its Claude AI models after the tech giant reported outages spanning over two days.
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Microsoft Copilot just quietly allowed sending data outside of the EU
Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant, Copilot, will soon be sending data outside the European Union (EU) during peak demand hours unless administrators choose otherwise.
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Spotify’s Prompted Playlist feature now includes English podcasts
To serve the more than 34 million people who tune in to listen to podcasts every week, Spotify is expanding its Prompted Playlist feature to include English podcasts as well.
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Gemini will connect crisis users to therapists after lawsuit claims chatbot drove man to suicide
If Google’s chatbot Gemini is skeptical about a user’s mental health condition, it will refer that person to a clinical expert.
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Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT will do anything to avoid destroying other AI agents
The world’s most advanced AI models have adopted a doomsday mode, as models like Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, ChatGPT, and others will stop at nothing to preserve their kind. Even if that means lying, cheating, and disobeying users' orders.
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Malicious web content can be used to deceive and exploit AI agents, Google DeepMind says
Autonomous AI agents are now a very real phenomenon on the web, but so are their vulnerabilities, which attackers can easily exploit via malicious content, say Google DeepMind researchers.
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Another billionaire announces the arrival of AGI, says it is not “evenly distributed”
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has announced the arrival of general artificial intelligence (AGI).
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Britons ditch social media posting as AI chatbots fill the void
Social media use by adults from the United Kingdom has declined rapidly over the past two years. The use of AI, on the other hand, has skyrocketed as more and more people are becoming acquainted with it.
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OpenAI lays out AI policy doctrine for humanity's transition to superintelligence
OpenAI on Monday introduced what it calls a “slate of people-first policy ideas” designed to kick-start a much-needed AI blueprint as society barrels toward superintelligence with few guardrails in place.
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Musk wants another million satellites. Scientists say they would ruin the night sky
SpaceX’s plan to fill the orbit with an additional million satellites acting as data centers would ruin the night sky for everyone, scientists warn. And that’s only one of the risks.
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AI models will covertly scheme to prevent fellow AI models from being shut down
We already know that AI models may at times go out of their way to avoid being shut down and even blackmail their human creators. Now, it turns out that the same models will also go to great lengths to prevent fellow AI models from being turned off.
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